Problem of other minds
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The problem of other minds is a philosophical problem traditionally stated as the following
social interactions due to people having a "theory of mind" – the ability to spontaneously infer the mental states of others – supported by innate mirror neurons,[2] a theory of mind mechanism,[3] or a tacit theory.[4] There has also been an increase in evidence that behavior results from cognition which in turn requires consciousness and the brain
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It is a problem of the philosophical idea known as solipsism: the notion that for any person only one's own mind is known to exist. The problem of other minds maintains that no matter how sophisticated someone's behavior is, that does not reasonably guarantee that someone has the presence of thought occurring within them as when oneself engages in behavior.[5]
Phenomenology studies the subjective experience of human life resulting from consciousness. The specific subject within phenomenology studying other minds is intersubjectivity.
See also
- Animal consciousness
- Binding problem
- Boltzmann brain
- Brain in a vat
- Chinese room
- Dream argument
- Ethics of uncertain sentience
- Explanatory gap
- Hard problem of consciousness
- Mind–body problem
- Open individualism
- Philosophical skepticism
- Philosophical zombie
- Philosophy of mind
- Psychophysics
- Qualia
- Turing test
- Theory of mind
- Vertiginous question
References
Further reading
- OCLC 957696590.
- Inami, Masahiro (August 2001). "The problem of other minds in the Buddhist epistemological tradition". S2CID 169112249.
- S2CID 240744968.
- OCLC 988171852.
- Buford, Thomas O., ed. (1970). Essays on other minds. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. OCLC 133061.
- OCLC 383698.
- OCLC 1076880.
External links
- Problem of other minds at PhilPapers
- Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Other minds". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Problem of other minds at the Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
- "Problem of other minds". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.