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CEFR B2 Philosophy of Mind

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1. Relating to matter and energy, as opposed to the mental
3. The attempt to explain mental states entirely in terms of brain processes
5. The school that reduces mental states to observable behavioral dispositions
6. The process by which sensory information becomes conscious experience
9. Past tense: historians have ___ the long debate over mind and body
13. A hypothetical being physically identical to a human but lacking consciousness
17. The empirical study of the brain that philosophers of mind often consult
18. Past participle: the brain is ___ with neural mechanisms for consciousness
20. The theory that only physical matter exists and mental states are physical
22. The view that reality is fundamentally mental or mind-dependent
24. Past tense: behaviorism was largely ___ by the cognitive revolution
27. Past participle: few argue that consciousness can be entirely ___ from philosophy
28. Past tense: thought experiments have ___ the mystery of subjective experience
29. Adverb meaning unavoidably: dualism ___ raises the interaction problem
30. A complex mental state involving feeling, thought, and bodily response

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2. Past tense: dualists have long ___ the hard problem of consciousness
4. The rise of complex mental properties from simpler physical systems
7. The view that consciousness or proto-consciousness is fundamental to all matter
8. Able to be imagined without contradiction, as in the zombie argument
10. Past tense: the inner nature of experience is often ___ from physical description
11. Past tense: philosophers have ___ careful arguments for dualism
12. Existing in the mind and dependent on personal experience
14. The seat of consciousness, thought, and feeling
15. Adverb meaning only: physicalism claims mental states are ___ physical
16. A mental state of holding something to be true
19. The selective focusing of consciousness on particular stimuli
21. Past tense: the explanatory gap ___ the tension between science and experience
23. Past participle used in the thought experiment where color experiences are ___
25. The mental processes of knowing, perceiving, and reasoning
26. Past tense: the debate was ___ into the hard problem of consciousness

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