PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Testability, Methamphetamine, Environmental Determinism
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Solve this puzzle: alex, bret, chris, derek, eddie, fred, greg, harold and john are nine students who live in a three storey building, with three rooms on each floor. A room in the west wing, one in the centre, and one in the east wing. Conservation of energy: the total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant. If a non-physical entity (ex. the mind) can produce changes to in the body, these changes will add energy to the physical system: this energy has no source, violating the law of energy conservation. Leibnez showed that energy is conserved not motion http://www. utsc. utoronto. ca/~seager/a10_14. pdf. 3 non-dualist theories of mind: behaviourism, mind/brain identity theory, functionalism. They agree that a materialist viewpoint is the most promising starting point for investigating the mind. Behaviourism stands out against identity theory and functionalism b/c it denies mentalism (the idea that mental states are generally unobservable inner states which cause behaviour and are the effects of physical stimuli)
