What Am I? Virtual Machines and the Mind/Body Problem.

When your word processor or email program is running on your computer, this creates a “virtual machine” that manipulates windows, files, text, etc. What is this virtual machine, and what are the virtual objects it manipulates? Many standard arguments in the philosophy of mind have exact analogues fo...

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Published in:	Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 237 - 310
Main Author:	POLLOCK, JOHN L.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2008
Subjects:	Philosophy of mind Computers Philosophers Computer files Word processing software Email systems Cybernetics Scholars Philosophy
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost