A very thin oil film 1n = 1.252 floats on water 1n = 1.332. What is the thinnest film that produces a strong reflection for green light with a wavelength of 500 nm?
Reductive Materialism Mental states= neural states o Pain= c-fiber firing Benefits of Reductive materialism o No interaction problems o No problem of other minds o Flaws: not obvious ones Arguments o Parsimony Either pain is perfectly correlated with brain processes, or it is identical to brain processes Occam’s razor Therefore pain is identical to certain brain processes o Causal role Pain= the occupant of causal role R Neural state N occupies causal role R Therefore pain= neural state N Objections o Illiteracy/Unknowing I know about my pain, I don’t know about c fibers therefore they are not equal (Leibniz’s Law) o Possibility Its possible that lighting will not turn out to be atmospheric electrical discharge, but that doesn’t completely rule it out o
