Philosophy / Unit 6 Philosophy 0232 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Perfect Actor Objection
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The idea
The perfect actor objection: behavior and mind can come apart—a flawless actor shows pain behavior without pain; a stoic hides pain without behavior.
In practice
Putnam's super-Spartans suppress every wince and complaint by training. On behaviorism's definition, their pain vanishes. It plainly does not.
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