Other Minds? :: Philosophy Philosophical Essays

Other Minds?Bertrand Russell expressed his belief on subtile an other(prenominal) minds, in an article based primarily around the design of analogy, meaning similar to or likeness of. His belief is that, We are convinced that other people swallow thoughts and feelings that are qualitatively pretty similar to our own. We are not content to think that we know wholly the space-time structure of our fri ceases minds, or their capacity for initiating causal chains that end in sensations of our own (Russell 89). Russell speaks of the inner awareness, such as being competent to observe the occurrences of such things as remembering, feeling pleasure and feeling pang from within our own minds. This would then allow us to presume that other beings that have these abilities would then be that of having minds. The term analogy is very timid in nature, but when used in this context, we assume that the behavior of other people is in many ways analogous in denotation to causes. These cau ses being behavior directed from sensation or thought. It is apparent and plain that people or beings other then I behave in ways in which we behave when placed in different situations. For instance sadness or the nature of anger or happiness ignore be seen in others. Others then passel and do react to different causes similar to the way in which I do as well. some other consideration is that of shared experience. Russell uses the warning of two friends having a conversation in which memoirs are explored. These two individuals have shared experiences together. They eventually discover that for each one others memories aid each other in recalling selective information forgotten with time. (Russell 89)It can factually be said that beings in which can think, therefore have a mind, thus have causes for behavior. As it is understand to me that the causal laws governing my behavior have to do with thoughts, it is natural to pretend that the same is true of the analogous behavio r of my friends (Russell 89). Thus the aspect of inference is now the main concern when relating to analogy. Can we infer that other beings have thoughts and feelings to result such causes, as that in which is observable? Russell explains this notion with the example of mother and her thoughts. We find ourselves believing in them when we first begin to contemplate the thought that Mother may be angry or buoyant is one which rises in early infancy (Russell 90).