The Causes of Behavior

Later it would become practical if we are asked why
But where are these feelings and states of mind?
We simply make sure that no other food is available
As one neurologist recently put it

The study of literature, art, and music
From infancy to maturity
Changes occurring in time
The systematic neglect of useful information
Is, of course, nothing new

It is so easy to observe feelings and states of mind
If such a robot could be built
To work on its own projects without philosophical digressions
Indistinguishable from a real person

But problems remained
Feelings or states of mind seemed unnecessary
What about other evidence?
What about psychophysics?
What about stream of consciousness?

Ignored because it cannot be studied objectively
The possibility of self-observation or self-knowledge
Introspection but not what philosophers
Consider events taking place

An organism behaves as it does
But it exerts a different kind of effect
Human

In this way we repair the major damage
When what a person does
Is going on inside him

The End
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