If you are trying to change someone’s thoughts through brain surgery, this is the useful viewpoint to take. For most other purposes, treating the mind as an object in and of itself is the useful viewpoint. Regardless, the mind arises entirely from atoms.
It's a *combination* of the facts about the underlying atoms and psychology of humans. Humans label certain "collections of atoms" "chairs" because of their "real-world" utility for sitting. Thither "chairness".
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What about the facts about how humans use chairs? Those facts are neither psychological, nor about atoms primarily - there is much more to human knowledge than those two (sub) disciplines. In this case, it's more of an anthropological fact.
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I'm still confused as to why you reach towards atoms for this though. This move doesn't get you anywhere since atomness is in the mind in the exact same way that chairness is.
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