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(1994) The unity of the mind, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The truth condition for "This is one mind" is roughly that this consists in a single realisation of the mind blue-print. The ideal way of establishing its truth would be to investigate the structure of what confronts us and determine whether it realises the mind blue-print. Unfortunately, we are not sufficiently knowledgeable. If we did not know that brains animated the people we see around us, there would be no temptation to suppose that a brain in a vat was a mind. The statement has to be verified indirectly.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23178-2_9
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Brooks, D. H. (1994). Individuating minds and agents, in The unity of the mind, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143-155.
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