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  The mind/body problem is the feeling/function problem: How and why do
                                 feeling systems feel? The problem is not just "hard" but insoluble (unless one
                                 is ready to resort to telekinetic dualism). Fortunately, the "easy" problems of
                                 cognitive science (such as the how and why of categorization and language)
                                 are not insoluble. Five books (by Damasio, Edelman/Tononi, McGinn,
                                 Tomasello and Fodor) are reviewed in this context.
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commref: "The Feeling of What Happens by A. Damasio, A Universe of Consciousness by G. M. Edelman & G. Tononi, The Mysterious Flame by C. McGinn, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by M. Tomasello and The Mind Doesn't Work That Way by Jerry A. Fodor"
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date: 2001
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keywords: 'mind, consciousness, mind/body problem, language, Zombies, Turing Test, functionalism, feeling, other minds problem, qualia, language, categorization, Chomsky, Fodor, symbol grounding, telekinesis, telepathy, dualism, epiphenomenalism'
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publication: The Sciences
publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
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referencetext: |-
  Cangelosi, A. & Harnad, S. (2000) The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor
  Toil: Grounding Language in 
  Perceptual Categories. Evolution of Communication (Special Issue on Grounding) 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.language.html 
  
  Chalmers, D. (1995) Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies
  http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/facing.html 
  
  Damasio, A.R. (1994) Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Avon Books. 
  
  Chomsky, N. (1959) A Review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. Language 35(1): 26-58 
  http:// cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/11/48/ 
  
  Fodor, J. A. (1975) The language of thought. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. 
  
  Fodor, J. A. (1985) Precis of  The Modularity of Mind. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 8:1-42. 
  
  Harnad, S. (1987) The induction and representation of categories. In:  Harnad, S. (ed.) (1987)
  Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press. 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad87.categorization.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D 42: 335-346. [Reprinted in Hungarian
  Translation as "A 
  Szimbolum-Lehorgonyzas Problemaja." Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle XLVIII-XLIX (32-33) 5-6:
  365-383.] 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.sgproblem.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (1996) The Origin of Words: A Psychophysical Hypothesis In Velichkovsky B &
  Rumbaugh, D. (Eds.) 
  Communicating Meaning: Evolution and Development of Language. NJ: Erlbaum: pp 27-44. 
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad96.word.origin.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (2000) Correlation Versus Causality: How/Why the Mind/Body Problem Is Hard.  Journal
  of Consciousness Studies 7(4): 54-61.
  http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.mind.humphrey.html 
  
  Harnad, S. (2000) Minds, Machines, and Turing: The Indistinguishability of Indistinguishables. Journal
  of Logic, Language, and Information 9(4): 425-445. (special issue on "Alan Turing and Artificial
  Intelligence") http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.turing.html 
  
  Tomasello, M., Kruger, A. C. & Ratner, H. H. (1993) Cultural learning. Behavioral & Brain Sciences
  16:495-552. 
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  - behav-neuro-sci
  - cog-psy
  - comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys
  - phil-mind
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title: 'Explaining the Mind: Problems, Problems'
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