Brain Supplement Reviews: A want to be materialist I really do want to be a materialist about the mind but I don't really see clearly how to be a kind of honest materialist about the mind because it seems to me that on the going stories the kinds of attempts to give a naturalistic account of mentality that you find in philosophy of mind in the last 50 years right up until the present moment typically leave out what what it's like is really like they it seems to me that they distort the nature of our mental lives as it's given to us immediately in our first-person experience they leave out the intrinsic qualitative character experience and I don't think that an acceptable view of the mind should do that so what I would like is a materialist naturalism that doesn't do that but I don't yet know what such a thing would look like so I don't actually have a settled position about this issue myself I thought I ought to just stop and say that at this point because it's not like I've got as a grand punchline my own answer to the the worries that I'm now laying before you I don't I think that these are open questions that still need to be discussed okay let me shift gears a bit now let's see I've been talking for how long oh I've been talking for quite a while so I'm going to shift gears and say a few things very quickly I didn't necessarily mean to talk through this entire handout I've used this handout in various venues over the last two or three years so let me move fast maybe I'll skip section Dion phenomenal intentionality that'll save some time and move to Section E and section F yeah mental mental causations section II I want to mention a one issue that's been really actively discussed in recent philosophy of mind and then a second one that hasn't been very much discussed but I think should be both of these under the heading of mental causation so first of all II point one the problem of causal exclusion that's an expression that was introduced by my former teacher at University of Michigan my former graduate supervisor jag Juan Kim and the basic problem is this suppose you reject identity materialism maybe because you think that mental properties are multiple realizable that's a common reason as I've said for rejecting identity materialism then how do you avoid so-called epiphenomenalism about mental properties and mental phenomena epiphenomenalism is the view that although mentality is real it really happens it doesn't do anything what happens in your mind has no effects what you do and doesn't even have any effects on what happens later in your mind because the causal history of all of your behavior is a matter of what's happening physically in the world and happening physically inside of you in particular what's happening physically inside your brain because your brain is controlling all of your behavior so the thought is this if mental properties are not the same thing as physical properties if men if identity theory is not correct then look the right story about what causes you to do what you do is in principle a story that can be told in terms of the laws and principles of physics and chemistry in principle we could trace back everything you do because you know behavior is a matter of coordinated contraction and relaxation of muscles verbal behavior is that - you know coordinated relaxation and contraction of muscles in the throat and mouth and vocal cord it's all a matter of physical phenomena in your body being caused by other physical phenomena in your body and especially important here is signals that are sent by the motor cortex in the brain that reg model...

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