Mind and Body
- Created by: reayofsunshine
- Created on: 11-02-17 16:06
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- Mind and Body
- Humans have consciousness whereas machines have nothing more than sophisticated programming
- We are subjective and self-aware
- Dualism is a view that humans consist of two SEPERATE things
- Physical Body
- Holds brain matter, where physical activity takes place
- Eg eating, sitting walking
- Holds brain matter, where physical activity takes place
- Non-physical Mind
- Thinking and feeling
- Eg enjoying the taste of tea
- Thinking and feeling
- The two are distinct
- Much like Plato's view froms
- That there is a physical world and a separate world of forms
- Much like Plato's view froms
- Physical Body
- MIND
- Intelligence and emotions
- Enables us to interpret data from our senses
- Form judgements
- Make memories
- Make choices
- However, some argue that it is the brains physical activity, and that the mind is not separate from the physical body
- BODY
- For materialist philosophers we are just bodies nothing more
- Therefore, our body is not the 'physical part' of us because there are no other parts
- The physical matter
- For others, the body might be something that the soul inhabits for a while
- For materialist philosophers we are just bodies nothing more
- Humans have consciousness whereas machines have nothing more than sophisticated programming
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