PSYC 211 Lecture 2: Week 1
7 Jul 2016
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What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? . Oedipus the king, sophocles (ca 496 - 406 b. c. ) Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. Galen (surgeon for gladiators he observed brain damage, refuted aristotle) (a. d. 130-200) The brain controls our behaviors, perceptions, and awareness. Ancient greeks believed that mental processes lied in the heart, because it is necessary for life. Aristotle believed the brain controlled the passion of the heart. It has been observed that perhaps the individuals surrounding god in the chapel form a brain. When we think, or act, we believe that something is making us act or deciding for us. A subjective sense that the mind is floating somewhere in our head. The nervous system receives information from sensory organs and controls movements.
