Only this book was translated into English " Elements of folk-psychology " ), thus providing but a much abridged insight into Wundt's differentiated cultural psychology . ( The Folk Psychology part of the title already demonstrates the low level of understanding ).
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Eliminativists such as Patricia and Paul Churchland argue that while folk psychology treats cognition as fundamentally sentence-like, the non-linguistic vector / matrix model of neural network theory or connectionism will prove to be a much more accurate account of how the brain works.
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Eliminative materialists maintain that mental states are fictitious entities introduced by everyday " folk psychology " . [ 15 ] Should " folk psychology ", which eliminativists view as a quasi-scientific theory, be proven wrong in the course of scientific development, then we must also abolish all of the entities postulated by it.
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Eliminative materialists maintain that mental states are fictitious entities introduced by everyday " folk psychology " . [ 15 ] Should " folk psychology ", which eliminativists view as a quasi-scientific theory, be proven wrong in the course of scientific development, then we must also abolish all of the entities postulated by it.
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In recent years, Paul and Patricia Churchland have advocated a radically contrasting position ( at least, in regards to certain hypotheses ); " eliminativist materialism " holds that some mental phenomena simply do not exist at all, and that talk of those mental phenomena reflects a totally spurious " folk psychology " and introspection illusion.
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Dennett, for example, argues in " True Believers " ( 1981 ) that intentional idiom ( or " folk psychology " ) is a predictive strategy and if such a strategy successfully and voluminously predicts the actions of a physical system, then that physical system can be said to have those beliefs attributed to it.
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Boyer builds on the ideas of cognitive anthropologists Dan Sperber and Scott Atran, who first argued that religious cognition represents a by-product of various evolutionary adaptations, including folk psychology, and purposeful violations of innate expectations about how the world is constructed ( for example, bodiless beings with thoughts and emotions ) that make religious cognitions striking and memorable.
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In 2013, the philosopher Elizabeth Irvine pointed out that both science and folk psychology do not treat mental states as having phenomenal properties, and therefore " the hard problem of consciousness may not be a genuine problem for non-philosophers ( despite its overwhelming obviousness to philosophers ), and questions about consciousness may well'shatter'into more specific questions about particular capacities ".
