Psychology 3139A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Glebe, Tennis Ball, Thalamus
3 Nov 2016
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Is the mental world apart of the physical world. The mind is not the same physical state of the brain. It is a nonphysical entity inhabit the brain. What we shape it into are oru different thoughts. Said mind and body exist in two different worlds. Perhaps a way out of the mind body problem is to look at behavior. Philosophical behaviorism says that mental states are dispositions or tendencies to behave in certain ways under certain conditions. If you think as just mental idealism. Hard to think that the whole world is just an illusion. Says that everything can me explained by atoms. Operations of the mind are via the physical operations of the brain. Being happy is the same thing as the brain state of showing happy. We have objective and subjective ways to describe how we feel. Eliminativim says to reject all the (cid:498)feel good(cid:499) term. Common sense or intituve reasoning is called folk psychology.
