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Comparing Picard And Maddox's View Of The Mind

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Picard believes that his robot friend, Data, is a person and as such should be able to make decisions just as any other human does. (Synopsis) His view of the mind/body problem is that the mind is not separate from the body, thus his view is very materialistic in nature. Picard refers to Data as being human in the way that he thinks; to be human in thought process, you must have the same mental processes.
Data, like humans, was created with only a brain, but the brain is what makes mental thought. Data’s brain like every other human has a self-operating computer (Hasker, 70). Both Picard and Mattox have very different view on the min/body problem and this leads them to conflict over Data’s fate. Maddox’s view on the subject is that of dualistic
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