So it’s not true that the brain alone is conscious. So, mental states like consciousness are states of an entire animal and not states of its parts.
That would be an odd thing to say because Beckham couldn’t shoot for the goal without his foot, but it was the whole beast, so to speak, which shot the goal. So imagine someone tells you that David Beckham didn’t score a goal, it was his foot. Mereology is the discipline which studies the relation between wholes and parts. The shortest argument goes something like this: there’s what philosophers call a mereological fallacy. Let’s start with the title of your latest book. In the interview below, he talks about why he prefers the German term ‘geist’ to the English ‘mind’, how we should reclaim our rationality, and why we ought to stop making claims about what we don’t know. Author of ‘I Am Not A Brain’ and ‘Why The World Does Not Exist’, he will be debating Mind, Matter and Mechanisms with neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland and writer and former clinical neuroscientist Raymond Tallis at our London Festival HowTheLightGetsIn on 22-23 September. One of the youngest philosophy professors in Germany, Markus Gabriel teaches in 16 languages, dreads metaphysics and thinks that the philosophy of mind needs to tighten up.
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