The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
On U.T. Place’s “Is Consciousness a Brain Process?” (1956) and J.J.C. Smart’s “Sensations and Brain Processes” (1959), w/ guest Chris Heath.
Is there some a priori reason for denying that the mind can actually be the brain? Obviously those two words don’t mean the same thing, but can we think of them as a single thing under two descriptions? Place argues that the identity is not unlike other scientific identities, like lightning being the same as a motion of electric charges.
