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    5 Language as a natural object aa gfe; —___ {would eto dust an approach oie mind that considers engoage sd Woilar phenomena to be elem Ofte asta Sa Ee died By otinay meshods of empl inguyT wil be uae the {Ge Ta ad nena bere wih no mets Eadentnd "aiemal” to be on 8 par ei Soe “elec” Coun phenomena, ects, proces and Hae ree. {iy ale “chem” (0), Sueno menphycal die oped fous of inquiry. We donot sack to determine the tue otis ye hema othe mark of eco te untae of he ope ‘se Sena” the ame way wth omen ike odncy cova eg ‘0 deeper implcnions. By “mind I just mean the mental ones of She we wi ome ee shape te Hate ng Tile the tem “npc” and “angunge” in much the same way, We fac tenon o apes of the weld thar ll under Sr tie ‘bri and ay rounders thes Gort the cure of dag oe sey sd apparel do develop 3 concept thar mor or kar eee {he inal nin of langue,” sat postulate thee sues oben ot ‘tions the ings athe wore slong of complex noes terre felt he nomen va ton an oh a sect econaruct lige expanntary cori beng “en hae We ale to post in ths quer. and Hoping fe een! soins wt the “core! natural sence unihcaon, sat necntay selec LLargecale reduction i rare inthe hsory ote ences Cosson the ore “damental eens hs ad undego teil eon hy ston eo proved. The cne of cheney aod phys Ws ee {Zama Poling' sco ofthe densa bond und ie ies, bu only alter the quantum relation pcs made eae pombe, The uniation of mosh of btogy with shes few soee Ine mighs be reared ws genuine rdasion, Duta Sak somoen has no parca epistemological or othe gnc: expinsion”™ ‘Sf pic eo incorporste what war nou shout lene, che Peiode {abl chemical weight, and wo on a lew led form of unifestion, Inthe present case the three of language and mind thst se best ‘ablahed on aaarlitie grounds senbute tose mind/bran con Duntonsl propescs of «hind that are well ndrstond, thou not huugh snows to explain bow a rrsctureconscted of cals Fine suck propenice That pore nication pote, ba fs amine ind ee ‘We do ot now ow ental unifeaton might proceed inthis as ov ifwe have hit pon the wight estegones to sect iy, rove te ‘usin fate win our copatve each, Weave no waren nly 1 sume tht mental propets se to be Feduced to "neual-nerork Dropertes" to ake pial chim (ee Pails Churchang 1998). ‘Sioiay pronouncement have ofan proven ae in other dorsi sed sre witout any paraclar scene mri di cae: Ifthe thes Shout neural nebvore i undervond wrx secach proposal well st ood; we wait and nee If more iene, rahe seine duetons 129 for the mater of copie rach humans are par of the natura wl nt supersatrs eins, then hima lnigeace hase scope ‘a ny dewrmine il d, We can toe wipes fe unable to ron mazes wth numeri property, Icing the app rine concep. Such questions, we might cll moyaeie fr-hurans™ ray be quesone wesc, and ces we do ot kam How to formulate properly or ata. "Thess tte do not cherge humans with eee Shumin, hence to Mock ther pate of development. Everyone would Sppita i "queso st stata from Movtecs We Can Only Cor template in Ave, to Tough Probleme We Are Begnniog to Ciscl™ (Pasiia Churehiand 1999). To demoostat he si for mates Tealana! concer i no stall order, and one may nly ake wheter nua isos! enorme. ‘Dunst Denne args that the notion of “epistemic boundedness” le “aoceinaly contenen" i "etonclly snmebie” hecute “Ghomely aod ess) Podor have bald the capac of ie beens bran to pase, and hence presumably undemtand, the ofa infinity ‘of gammalcl sentences of «natural lngwage,” slong tose “ht best expres the solutions ro the problems of fee wil or conscio ‘est, which he mitaenly chime have declared “ol mie” (Denna 1991: 10). However, even ifthe slaions cat be formulated in baa Jinguage ~ which hab to be shown, not auered the argument fe flscios. Fest ae well Rnown, "assem the ene uf th power” of granny which Sovcepars from “mechancal causes" He therefore ado content lose with te conclusion "whee gravity doe realy exe” laws xpnning “al the motions of the cleat Bodies, and of Our sea" ‘ough be regarded the prneile he portuled stem "abeurdy To {he end of it ie, Newron sought some “ite pis which pervade nd ies hid i ai gros toss” hat woule accnunt fir ingestion, ecaea trasion apd epson, de efoto, semtio,and e ‘ray "members of animal bodes move at the command ofthe wl! Souler flores continaed for ceturie “These concert, athe oie of moder esenc, have something of the flavor of contemporary dacaston of the "mind-body problem” "They a raise quesdone stout what at stake Thomas Nagel cece, ‘ha “the various atempa fo city out this spparenty impose ak [otreducing min to mater ane argrent show tot they have Ile, make up the history of de philosopay of mind darag the pt ‘iy years” The hopeless task “complete the materiale word picture” by tnalting accnunts of "mena phtotnen” fa tee of 5 description tat i either explcy pie or ure sly terme th can apply to shat i enety pel” or perhaps gher anergy ‘snditins” on "etecnally observable grounds” (Nagel 1993-99). [a Sninstructive review of Century ofthe plslsophy of mind (me ao Chapter # ofthis vone), lee Bunge dnresey the emergence af “natraim” Cmatralsm”“pyoicalin®) i he 1960s “one of he few ota in Areccenpsisopy” (1092 32), The view that thee ‘eno mental ates iopertes, ct.) "over and above ovina posal fs, mts Mentabe inthe pica! actences or enone th ‘common-sense would regard ar phy” (1992: 31s 0 dls Chater of tis lume). Such dseusions assume, conay to Newton and hie cxntemportcy, that Newton remained within "ie matenaloe world pictures thet ‘woud be re ony if we nesta“ satel ws pure” to be whatever scence conatrsce, however i Sepa from “mechanical notes" To put i diferente dcusions presuppose some aa dent understanding of wht i physeal or tna what are the Dhyscal ents. These tame ad same sense wthin the mechaaiel lose, bax waar co they mean in-@ word sed ot Newton’ "raserons fc," or sil more mysterious notion of Selde offre, cured space, efnte one-dimensional singin ten masetoal op ("body or "the pha” we have no cere ay truley Felced to the "ing-body probe " Thee wee real problems. ot ‘iene in the da ofthe ethan philenopy Since dere, Ue cece postulate whatve nd place in inti cxpannory theory, however offensive thit may be commnon sense, Onto ned

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