Charles Rathkopf
Center for Philosophical Psychology
March 21st, 2024
Decoding mental content from brain data such that:
Rule out the intentional production of conventional symbols like words.
from Tang et al. (2023)
from Tang et al. (2023)
1. Representationalist
- Beliefs are relations to structured mental
representations
2. Psychofunctionalist
- Representations are explicitly stored in the brain
- Yes-or-no phenomenon
- To be discovered by mind/brain sciences
Whether an agent has the belief that P depends only on
whether their patterns of actual and potential behavior
come sufficiently close to matching a stereotype of
rational action for agents with the belief that P
1. Behavioral data, including biographical information,
support the claim that the subject believes that P, but
2. Brain data supports the claim that the subject
believes that ~P, and
3. The brain data constitutes stronger evidence
about what the subject really believes than the
behavioral evidence
Thanks for your attention!