PHL210Y5 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 (Mind-body problem)
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Audio recording started: 10:08 am january 17, 2017. Descartes dualism, might be true for locke he states that we cannot prove it. Idea of immaterial spirit: thinks, wills, put body in a motion. The idea of physical body: extension, cohesion, solidity and transmit motion. Including these two there is an idea of substratum. Locke"s objection to materialism: to positive; they fail to distinguish. We can experience the table, but experience is different from understanding, quantum mechanics we cannot experience it. Then locke in both physical and mental understanding we cannot know . Materialist error: assumption that body is more intelligible than spirit. Problem of understanding - cohesion; transmission of motion. The alice of wonderland example: the cats face cannot exist it is impossible. Leibniz - we can know the world by pure intellect, but locke rejects it he states that we cannot the physical world completely. Descartes" dualism - mind & body; no substance which both thought and extension.
