- Biological naturalism(Searle's position that consciousness and sensations come from biology)
- The philosophical view that mental experiences like pain are produced by physical processes in the brain and body, not by anything non-physical.
- Constitutively necessary(as used in philosophy of mind)
- Something that is essential and built into the very nature of something—you can't have one without the other.
- Implementation detail(as how the hypothesis treats processing topology)
- A specific technical choice about how something is built or carried out that doesn't change what the thing fundamentally does or how it works.
- John Searle(as the philosopher being referenced)
- An influential American philosopher who studies how minds work, language functions, and how people cooperate; he argues that collective intentions are fundamentally different from just combining individual ones.
- Neurochemical processes(as used in philosophy of mind)
- The chemical reactions and electrical activities that happen in your brain and nervous system.
- Phenomenal experience(philosophy of mind and consciousness)
- The subjective, felt quality of something—what it's actually like to see red, taste chocolate, or feel pain; the conscious feeling itself rather than just information processing.
- biological substrate(as the method through which accomplishments are achieved)
- The physical, living foundation or material—basically, your body and its natural abilities—through which you do something.
- contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
- Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).