A Panenmentalist Reconsideration of the Identity of Indiscernibles

Gilead, Amihud

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“…For instance, as a psychological subject the person called James Joyce was a singular being. In a substantial sense 1 These assumptions are established, explained, and elaborated in a special possibilist metaphysical theory called "panenmentalism" (Gilead 1999(Gilead , 2003(Gilead , 2005(Gilead , 2009(Gilead , 2010(Gilead , 2011(Gilead , 2013a(Gilead , and 2013b). Yet, in this paper, they are discussed independently of this metaphysics, which may appear to leave them somewhat unsupported by extensive and detailed arguments.…”

Section: My Psychophysical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The issue of psychological private accessibility is also controversial, and naturalist and externalists, such as Donald Davidson, have generally denied its plausibility (as did Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations). All the more, the problem of personal identity has been very much with us, beginning with David Hume and going on to Derek Parfit and many others (see Gilead 2008). Finally, psychological anomalousness is also philosophically controversial and yet, undoubtedly, it is perfectly compatible with the singularity of each person as a psychological subject.…”

Section: My Psychophysical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As I have just said, externalists and naturalists do not accept the idea of private accessibility, but I know of no externalist or naturalist who can offer a penny or even much more for any of my thoughts unless I informed him or her about them (for extensive arguments to defend psychological private accessibility consider Gilead 2003, pp. 43-75;Gilead 2008;Gilead 2011).…”

Section: My Psychophysical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The singularity of each mind implies private accessibility, which means that each person has exclusive access, first of all epistemic, to his or her mind (Gilead 2003, pp. 43-75;Gilead 2008;and Gilead 2011). No one else, whether omniscient or not, has any access to any other mind.…”

Section: The Application Of My Psychophysical Assumptions To Immunologymentioning

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“…Panenmentalism is a metaphysical theory about individual pure possibilities and their actualities (Gilead 1999(Gilead , 2003(Gilead , 2005(Gilead , 2009(Gilead , 2010(Gilead , 2011(Gilead , 2013a(Gilead , and 2013b The combination actual-physical requires some explanation.…”

Section: Appendix Immunology and Panenmentalism: Why Does Our Immunementioning

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Singularity and Uniqueness: Why Is Our Immune System Subject to Psychological and Cognitive Traits?

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2020

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Immunologists use psychological and cognitive terms to describe and explain the behavior of our immune system. Do they use them metaphorically or literally? In this paper I show that on the grounds of some psychophysical assumptions, the uniqueness of each person (or self) as an individual organism necessarily corresponds to the singularity of each person as a psychological subject. On the basis of these assumptions, immunologists, irrespective of their various conceptual frames, are entitled to ascribe psychological and cognitive traits to our immune system and its behavior. Immunologists are allowed to do so because each immune system of any higher, unique individual organism corresponds to psychological traits, which are ascribable only to persons, each of whom is a singular being. This correspondence is necessarily compatible with the psychophysical unity or inseparability. Furthermore, the psychological or cognitive traits pertain to the immune system require no consciousness. In the case of artificial immune systems, in contrast, the application of psychological or cognitive terms is only metaphorical, for each such system is not unique but it is duplicable or replicable. Only the immune system of unique individual organisms that as psychological subjects are singular beings-i.e. persons-can be subject, literally or non-metaphorically, to psychological and cognitive terms.

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Section: My Psychophysical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: My Psychophysical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: My Psychophysical Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Application Of My Psychophysical Assumptions To Immunologymentioning

confidence: 99%