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Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

pudesse ser realizado materialmente por um outro tipo de estado físico

English translation:

could be physically realized by a different type of physical state

Added to glossary by Michael Powers (PhD)
Mar 1, 2009 01:03
15 yrs ago
Portuguese term

pudesse ser realizado materialmente por um outro tipo de estado físico

Portuguese to English Social Sciences Psychology doctoral dissertation in Cognitive Science from Portugal
O nosso cérebro está incorporado num corpo embutido num ambiente. Temos a mente que temos por termos o corpo que temos (mais o ambiente). O funcionalista pode então relativizar estados mentais a espécies, a chamada teoria da identidade tipo-tipo relativizada a espécies. A ideia é a de que, por exemplo na espécie humana, haveria uma efectiva identidade entre um dado tipo de estado mental e um certo tipo de estado neurofisiológico, mas que isto não impediria que, em outras espécies, o mesmo tipo de estado mental (um estado mental cujo lugar na rede causal fosse o mesmo ou aproximadamente o mesmo que o ocupado pela sua contraparte na espécie humana), pudesse ser realizado materialmente por um outro tipo de estado físico (outro género de estado neurofisiológico, um estado electrónico, etc.). E a IA ser uma parte muito própria da Ciência Cognitiva.
Proposed translations (English)
4 could be physically realized by a different type of physical state
4 could be materially established by another type of physical level
4 could actually be achieved by a different type of physical state
4 could be materially achieved by some other type of physical state
3 could be materialy produced by other other type of physical state

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could be physically realized by a different type of physical state


could be physically realized by a different type of physical state (outro género de estado neurofisiológico, um estado electrónico, etc.).

Explanation:
Identity Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

...any type of physical state could realize any type of psychological state in some ...
www.iep.utm.edu/i/identity.htm - 31k

Phylosophy of mind and Metaphysics

According to machine functionalists, we can think of the mind as a Turing machine. “The central idea is that what it is for something to have mentality—that is, to have a psychology—is for it to be a physically realized Turing machine of appropriate complexity, with its mental states (that is, mental-state types) identified with the internal states of the machine table.
www.geocities.com/black_tim/Lecture11.pdf


Another way of explaining this idea is to use the notion of machine
description: An organism has mentality just in case there is a Turing
machine of appropriate complexity that is a machine description of it, and
its mental-state kinds are to be identified with the internal states of that
Turing machine


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Note added at 1 hr (2009-03-01 02:13:48 GMT)
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physically realized or physically implemented

MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY

Multiple realizability, in philosophy of mind, is the thesis that the same mental property, state, or event can be implemented by different physical properties, states or events. The idea has its roots in the late 1960s and early 1970s when a number of philosophers, most prominently Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor, put it forth as an argument against reductionist accounts of the relation between mental and physical kinds. In short, a theory of mind that includes multiple realizability allows for the existence of strong AI. The original targets of these arguments were the type-identity theory and eliminative materialism. The same arguments from multiple realizability were also used to defend many versions of functionalism, especially Machine state functionalism.

Example sentence(s):
how how that state is physically realized (like the physical-chemical state of the brain). ...
The same mental state or property could be implemented or realized by different states of a universal Turing machine.

Reference: http://www.stanford.edu/~lmaguire/phil186/putnam.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_realizability - 37k
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could be materialy produced by other other type of physical state

:) I think it is OK the literal translation
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could be materially established by another type of physical level

another option
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could actually be achieved by a different type of physical state

Just another suggestion...
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could be materially achieved by some other type of physical state

Sounds natural to me.
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