PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psych, Roger Penrose, Reductionism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Mind has a thousand productions that can act. Synaptic changes n taste receptors to tolerate bitter foods. Children often vomit when eating some bitter foods that adults enjoy. Not a good description for learning yet. Some people believe roger penrose that quantom effects are directly related to consciousness, but most cog. Can this level make causal predictions using ontology of that level. Ontology is a said of things said to exist. Reductionism: dismissing of higher level fields because their findings will be reduceable to yours. Some things are behaviour phenomena, such as group going on strike are difficult to explain with individual psychology. Some things are not affected by society, not everything is learned. Proximate explanations: im hungry, sex because it feels good. Mental states and processes determined by function.