Mental property

A mental property or a mind property is a property

Property

Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of persons. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy his or her property, and/or to exclude others from...

 of a/the mind

Mind

Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. The term is often used to refer, by implication, to the thought processes of reason. Mind manifests itself...

. Mental properties are studied by many science

Science

Science is in its broadest sense to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome...

s and parasciences. We may only mention: psychology, cognitive sciences and recently also systemics

Systemics

Systemics is an emerging branch of philosophy that studies systems based on holistic view points. It tries to develop logical, mathematical, engineering and philosophical paradigms and frameworks in which physical, technological, biological, social, cognitive and metaphysical systems can be studied...

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There are three main scientific approaches to the study/modeling of mind (properties).

• The primary is the classical one, which considers mind as an intrinsic property of the human brain only.

• The second is focused on engineering
  Engineering
  Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council...
  
   research for the development of an abstract/synthetic mind/brain for robots and computers which satisfies requested functional properties.

• The third is the most universal research, dealing with a concept of generalized/universal and synthetic mind as a possible or existing property of the Universe.

A mental property or a mind property is a property

Property

Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of persons. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy his or her property, and/or to exclude others from...

 of a/the mind

Mind

Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. The term is often used to refer, by implication, to the thought processes of reason. Mind manifests itself...

. Mental properties are studied by many science

Science

Science is in its broadest sense to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome...

s and parasciences. We may only mention: psychology, cognitive sciences and recently also systemics

Systemics

Systemics is an emerging branch of philosophy that studies systems based on holistic view points. It tries to develop logical, mathematical, engineering and philosophical paradigms and frameworks in which physical, technological, biological, social, cognitive and metaphysical systems can be studied...

.

There are three main scientific approaches to the study/modeling of mind (properties).

• The primary is the classical one, which considers mind as an intrinsic property of the human brain only.

• The second is focused on engineering
  Engineering
  Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council...
  
   research for the development of an abstract/synthetic mind/brain for robots and computers which satisfies requested functional properties.

• The third is the most universal research, dealing with a concept of generalized/universal and synthetic mind as a possible or existing property of the Universe. Such research is the common interdisciplinary domain of interest of the philosophy of mind
  Philosophy of mind
  Philosophy of mind is a branch of modern analytic philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e...
  
  , artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"...
  
   and different systemic and meta-systemic approaches with a strong contribution from physicists and mathematicians.

The basic concrete objective of all these approaches is to develop a model of mind/intelligence which could be implemented on a computer and could be considered sufficiently "human-like" to be mistaken for another human mind by a naive observer.

Philosophy of mind perspective

A simple concrete example:
If someone pricks you with a pin, you will most likely feel pain. That instance of feeling pain is an instantiation of the property being in (or a) pain.
It is important to distinguish between the predicate 'is a pain' which is a linguistic entity, and the property denoted by the predicate. This becomes important in the philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind is a branch of modern analytic philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain. The mind-body problem, i.e...

 when the two are confused, especially concerning intertheoretic reductionism

Reductionism

Reductionism can either mean an approach to understand the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be...

 and ontological reductionism

Reductionism

Reductionism can either mean an approach to understand the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be...

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