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Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the nature of particular mental states. Aspects of the mind that are studied include mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and its neural correlates, the ontology of the mind, the nature of cognition and of thought, and the relationship of the mind to the body.
La substance pensante est l'idée soutenue par les tenants du dualisme et de l'idéalisme, que les esprits sont constitués de substance non physique. Cette substance est souvent dénommée conscience. Ce concept s'oppose au matérialisme, qui soutient que ce que nous pensons normalement comme étant une substance mentale n'est finalement que de la matière physique (c'est-à-dire un cerveau). Descartes, célèbre pour son affirmation « Je pense donc je suis », a eu beaucoup d'influence sur le problème corps-esprit.
The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind, and the body. The issue is this. Though it is obvious that mental events and physical events are somehow related, it is not obvious what the nature of this relation is. For example, it is obvious that feelings of sadness (which are mental events) will cause people to cry (which is a physical state of the body), or that finding a joke funny (a mental event) will cause one to laugh (another bodily state), or that feelings of pain (in the mind) will cause avoidance behaviours (in the body), and so on.