Filosofia da mente: os algoritmos de compressão como critérios de demarcação de âmbito do mental

Abstract

The present study aims to show the Algorithms of Compression as adequate criterion for the demarcation of the ambit of the mental starting from a Philosophy of Mind reflection. The Algorithms of Compression, understood from a Dennett´s soft materialism perspective - where they acquire an character in its formal sense meaning composed of successive stages of prescriptions that look for a certain result whenever they are initiate, but they also possess its heuristic character, that is to say, they are also good as economic strategy to prescribe instances not passible to reduction in random series that are, for its time, characteristic expressions of mental vocabulary (faiths, desires, longing...).