Realization and the Metaphysics of Mind

Realization *

______________________________________________ 1. A servant of two masters 2. Realization and the metaphysics of mind 3. Realization and the cognitive sciences 4. A working account of realization 4.1 Must realization be decompositional? 4.2 Must realization be constitutive or intrinsic? 4.3 Must realization be synchronic? 5. Autonomy, reduction, and multiple realizability 6. Conclusion: Getting...

Qoranic properties for Jinn’s creation

  Metaphysics, immaterial and semi-material beings and their particularities have been known among those opposing human powers of reasoning. Some, therefore, refuting any illuminative knowledge, have only accepted reasonable understanding. Jinn is one of distinct immaterial beings; the one that has qualified human mind for a long time. Can one accept the belief of those considering Jinn a real...

What is information? with an Emphasis on Zins’s Views

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore some important views and theories of information and knowledge in the area of library and information science (LIS) and then to propose a new model of information and knowledge. Method: This research has been conducted by using a comparative content analysis of the existing materials on conceptualizations and definitions of information and knowledge...

The Question concerning Emergence: Implications for Artificiality

This position paper has three parts. In the first part, a brief historical background and various modern formulations of the concept of emergence are presented. A number of problems associated with the concept are identified. One outstanding problem involves the incommensurability of secondary qualities (or phenomenal qualia) with materialist (externalist) ontologies. The intractability of this...

Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics Lecture II: Identity over Time and over Change of Composition