... an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory of the nature of mental states themselves 52 An introduction to the philosophy of mind ing an adequate account of the character of ... An introduction to the philosophy of mind suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of a bundle of human neurones, or the states of a piece of computing machinery, or even the ... terms of their rela- Mental states 47 tions to the computer’s ‘inputs’, other software states of the computer, and the computer’s ‘outputs’ By a ‘software’ state of a computer, I mean, for instance,...