PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Monism, Hot Chocolate, Qualia
3 Mar 2017
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The mind body problem (cont"d) acknowledges that there is life beyond what we know and the other does not. Darwin showed how simple forms could evolve to create complex forms. Monism: only one kind of stuff (either mind or body) Dualists conscious intelligence is something that is non-physical the real you is not in your material body, but rather is a non-spatial thinking substance soul . Monists conscious intelligence arises from purely physical activity non bishop berkely monists. Mental substances conscious experience look out at the world (listen to music, talk to people ) feel like different things than a lamp, pen (things that occupy a particular space, measure them, have a specific location, volume . ) Thoughts do not have a particular weight, location intuition that led ren . Does it have an existence beyond your own brain? where does the narrator go when you die? (dennet article who is the real you?)
