Whether the mind has natural value is the logical basis for establishing a unified principle of natural order。In what sense the mind has natural value is an ahistorical constitutive question,It is also a question of historical understanding。Many spiritual materialists have made physicalist non-historical constitutive theories bet365 tennis bet mind from different ideological approaches,Promotes a materialistic understanding bet365 tennis bet mind。
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In the materialistic understanding bet365 tennis bet unity bet365 tennis bet universe,Elucidating the materialistic implications bet365 tennis bet mind is key to developing a materialistic explanation bet365 tennis bet unity bet365 tennis bet universe。The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle believed,The soul cannot be separated from the body,The soul is the form bet365 tennis bet body;Epicurus proposed that the world is composed of atoms and void,The soul is a combination of fine atoms。The ancient Chinese thinker Laozi proposed that human beings are the same as the earth、Earth and Heaven、The perspective of Tianfa Dao,Treat people directly with the earth as law,Finally made a theoretical discussion based on Tao as law;Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar Zhang Zhan put forward the view that "the creator has no intention",Believe that the sudden birth and death of all things is a natural process,This is definitely not the intentional arrangement bet365 tennis bet Creator,Fate is the product of inescapable natural principles,People cannot know their own destiny。
Before the 1860s,Although people use physics、The achievements of chemistry have given a scientific materialist explanation to the external nature,But it is limited by the ability bet365 tennis bet physical-chemical explanation model to explain life phenomena,There is still no unified scientific materialist definition bet365 tennis bet natural order bet365 tennis bet universe,It cannot effectively refute the deistic or ad hoc hypothesis bet365 tennis bet natural order bet365 tennis bet universe。Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” published in 1859 did deal a heavy blow to creationism and metaphysical theories in biological evolution。His biological evolution thought with natural selection as the core concept,A physicalist explanation of biological evolution,Contributed to the formation of a unified naturalistic explanation model for the universe。After Darwin,August Weismann、The biological evolution theory of Ernst Haeckel and others has further erased the shadow of deism。The systematics of classification in biology、Cytology、Embryology、Paleontology、Chemistry、Mathematical Population Genetics、Molecular Biology、Promoted by cognitive neuroscience research,The theory of evolution has evolved into various theoretical forms such as "evolutionary synthesis", "molecular neutrality" and "sociobiology"。Various theoretical forms complement each other、Mutual promotion,formed a materialistic explanation model characterized by the theory of evolution and a naturalistic explanation bet365 tennis bet unity bet365 tennis bet mind and the world。
The physicalist explanation bet365 tennis bet mind is the theoretical basis for shaping the natural order bet365 tennis bet universe,Is a typical materialist explanation model。Explaining mental issues from a neurophysiological perspective,By John R. Searle) calls it the “bionaturalistic” explanatory model,Also known as Identity Theory,Is a model style of physicalism。But Searle thinks,The paradigm of biological naturalism also has many explanation difficulties: such as the characteristics of neurophysiological functions,Neuron、Neural process、Neural process division、Receptor、mitochondria、Glial cells、The question of how conductive fluids interact to produce mental phenomena、How neurophysiology explains issues of consciousness and unconsciousness, etc.。David John Chalmers thinks,Although neurophysiology has achieved certain results in explaining various psychological phenomena,Achieved certain results in exploring the connection between consciousness and brain processes,But,Current research cannot explain the interaction between consciousness and brain processes,Only examples can be used to illustrate the existence of related phenomena between the two。
Physicalist explanations bet365 tennis bet mind are not limited to neurophysiological dimensions,Psychology、Linguistics、Brain Science、The impact of computer science,Materialist explanation of mind presented as behaviorism、Functionalism、Eliminating materialism、Naturalization and other theoretical forms。The materialist explanation bet365 tennis bet mind generally follows the reductionist analytical path。On a positive note,It is to restore mental phenomena to physical phenomena;On the negative side,It is to deny the existence of any irreducible mental phenomena in the world。Therefore,The materialist explanation model bet365 tennis bet mind is also often refuted by anti-reductionism。Based on physical chemistry、Neurophysiology、The spiritual materialist explanation of computer science and other mathematical sciences,Promotes naturalistic understanding bet365 tennis bet mind,But an anti-reductionist rebuttal,This brings the monist materialist explanation bet365 tennis bet mind back to the challenges of mind-matter dualism and deism,Call into question the materialist explanation bet365 tennis bet unity bet365 tennis bet universe。Therefore,How to construct a new theory of natural explanation of mind,Promoting a unified naturalistic definition bet365 tennis bet universe has become an important issue that needs to be faced and solved in philosophy of mind and cosmology exploration。
Thomas Nagel is a philosopher of mind who holds a materialist naturalistic stance,He advocated a materialistic monist explanation bet365 tennis bet mind,And regard it as the core link in constructing the natural order bet365 tennis bet universe。Under the premise of fully examining the current anti-reductionist criticisms bet365 tennis bet materialist theory of mind,Nagel proposed to draw on existing life and consciousness to explain the results of physics and chemistry,Supplementary elements of historicist explanation,Form a thought path that can accommodate the "natural order view" of life and consciousness,And provides a naturalistic argument for this historical explanation with the value realism bet365 tennis bet soul。The explanation scheme advocated by Nagel is natural teleology。Purpose is a value category,Looking for a naturalistic explanation of purpose,Will promote a naturalistic account of value。Because value characteristics are an important feature that distinguishes mental phenomena from physical phenomena,So value naturalism will provide a direct argument for mind naturalism。Nagel advocates that value should be realist,That is, the value lies in the fact itself。In terms of cosmic evolution,Every process bet365 tennis bet evolution bet365 tennis bet universe、Every link contains value factors。From the perspective bet365 tennis bet history and evolution bet365 tennis bet universe,Value is not an accidental side effect of life,Life is a necessary condition for value。The mind is not an emergent and ad hoc product,It is the product bet365 tennis bet long process of evolution bet365 tennis bet universe。Nagel’s theory of natural value for the mind based on value realism,Established the natural teleology bet365 tennis bet mind。
Natural teleology echoes the theory of evolution,Developing a naturalistic explanation bet365 tennis bet mind from a historical perspective,A non-historical constitutive discussion that supplements the explanation of spiritual materialism,Together with the physicalist ahistorical constitutive account bet365 tennis bet mind, it forms a contemporary materialist account bet365 tennis bet mind as a whole。These two naturalistic explanations bet365 tennis bet mind together reveal the natural properties bet365 tennis bet mind,For the construction and deepening of spiritual materialism,Provides useful exploration for the construction bet365 tennis bet principle bet365 tennis bet natural order bet365 tennis bet universe。
(This article is funded by the Heilongjiang University Basic Research Fund Base Special Key Project "Positivism Criticism and the Construction of Western Marxist Philosophical Views" (HDJDZ201612)、Heilongjiang Province Philosophy and Social Science Research Planning Special Project "Research on the Typology of Western Opposition Method Thoughts in the 20th Century" (18ZXD415) Phased Results)
(Author’s unit: School of Philosophy, Heilongjiang University)
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