The problem with this argument is that it seems incredibly weak. As the great Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) dismissively asked: ‘And how can I generalize the one case so irresponsibly?’ The mere fact that in one case—my own—perhaps as luck has it, there is a mental life of a particular, definite kind, associated with a brain and a body, seems to be very flimsy ground for supposing that there is just the same association in all the other cases. If I have a box and it has a beetle in it, that gives me only very poor grounds for supposing that everyone else with a box has a
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