The problem of the many minds

  • Authors:

  • Bradley Monton;Sanford Goldberg

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA 80309-0232;Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA 40506-0027

  • Venue:
  • Minds and Machines
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It is argued that, given certain reasonable premises, an infinite number of qualitatively identical but numerically distinct minds exist per functioning brain. The three main premises are (1) mental properties supervene on brain properties; (2) the universe is composed of particles with nonzero extension; and (3) each particle is composed of continuum many point-sized bits of particle-stuff, and these points of particlestuff persist through time.