The Problem Of Other Minds By Caruthers

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In “The Problem of Other Minds” Carruther 's argues that we as humans, cannot have knowledge of other people 's mental states other than our own. It is possible that when one calls an object red, it may appear green to another person. Thus, both members could possibly have the same or completely different experience without ever noticing, as we call those experience by the same names. Carruther 's arguments shouldn 't be taken seriously, as I believe the the problem could be looked at from analogy. That is to say, if I were to experience something such as pain with similar reactions towards how you react, wouldn 't it be rational to say that you and I both have a mind ? If one of the purposes of having a mental state is to alert humans in …show more content…

It is to say, being the fact that I have privilege to access my own mind and mental experience but am unable to do so to others, we infer to the fact that there is a possibility that other people are without minds or are even possibly be mindless robots. When responding the question from analogy, one could question the fact that the argument of, if I have a similar reaction towards something that you do as well, then we both have minds could be an outlier to the problem. It is possible that I am the only person who has a mind which therefore makes the analogy a special case. If we reconstruct the argument of rather making a single correlation between a single mind and behavior to the correlations of many mental states with behaviors we may confirm the argument that the behavior of others is caused by a mental states. Just as when you are feeling sad, the behavior that comes with might be different methods of grief, and when your happy, different behaviors of euphoria occur. If the following pattern of behaviors follow with that mental state, then it is accurate to say the analogy argument does not only apply to one person as a definition of solipsism but rather that other people behave just as I do, thus, we all have a

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