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Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes
Author(s): Paul M. Churchland
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Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Feb., 1981), pp. 67-90
Published by: Journal of Philosop…The thesis of this paper may be summarized as follows. The propositional attitudes of folk psychology do not constitute an unbreachable barrier to the advancing tide of neuroscience. On the contrary, the principled displacement of folk psyc…
Paul M. Churchland
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Churchland's eliminative materialism argues that folk psychological concepts like beliefs and desires have no place in a mature neuroscientific account of mind—a position that becomes crucial when examining how AI systems trained on human data either replicate or fundamentally bypass our inherited vocabulary of mental states. In the course's context, his work enables critical thinking about whether machine learning systems inherit human conceptual baggage or operate in a different representational register altogether, particularly relevant when considering extraction of cognitive labor from human annotators who label training data through folk-psychological framings that may be scientifically obsolete.
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