The Debate on the Problem of the Irreducibility of Mind

Philosophy and Culture 33 (9):147-163 (2006)
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Irreducible heart problems , also known as consciousness, meaning "not of the mind around the concept of physical concepts," simply means, "the objective physical description of the concept can not be used fully subjective spiritual phenomenon. " This problem can be said of today's Western philosophy is one of the most popular topic, since Descartes made ​​mind-matter dualism, the mind-matter problem has been plagued by many great thinkers, and now the problem of mind and matter found its core point, the core point is consciousness, especially in today's era of rapid brain science, but also demonstrate the importance of this issue. The main purpose of this paper is to make this issue their own detailed analysis and explanation, and describes the main theoretical schools of today. The problem of the irreducibility of mind, also known as the problem of consciousness, refers to "the irreducibility of the concepts of mind into the concepts of physics." In short, "the objective concepts of physics are incapable of explaining completely the subjective phenomena of mind. "This is one of the most popular topics in the western world of philosophy. The mind-body problem has puzzled many great thinkers, ever since Descartes introduced the mind-matter dualism. Now the study of the mind-body problem has found its core to be the problem of consciousness, which seems to be more important nowadays when brain science is progressing quickly. The purpose of this paper is to make a detailed analysis and explanation about this problem and introduce the major academic schools in this field

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