Gabriel Vacariu, Mihai Vacariu
The first part of this article contains certain elements of the epistemologically different worlds perspective that focus the idea that the “I” or human subjectivity is an EW corresponding to the brain and body. The second part shows that Bechtels’s notion of “mechanism” is, in fact, a kind of more “technical” functionalism that tries to avoid the mind-brain problem. However, by avoiding the mind-brain problem, many cognitive science issues remain unsolved. Thus, we consider that Bechtel’s solution is only a surrogate-alternative in explaining the notions of cognition (or some of its functions) or mind/brain in interaction with the environment.
AnnalsUnibuc-2008-57-12Vacariu