PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cogito Ergo Sum, Big Questions, Pineal Gland
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Week 2 lecture #2: tuesday september 13, 2016. The plan: descartes: meditations ii and vi, descartes: the passions of the soul. Non-physical thing, not like our arms and legs etc: do we have minds at all, what is its relationship to the brain, descartes. There is a relationship there, but it"s not the one that you think that it is. Rene descartes: 1596-1650, philosopher and mathematician extraordinaire, meditations on first philosophy, cogito ergo sum. Dualism: there are two kinds of substance. Aka spirit aka soul: the mind is not the brain. The brain is a physical thing (/stuff) It"s not matter (easier to think about matter) The mind has infinite imagination, while as the brain is just a gray lump in the. The brain is a medium to get in touch with the material of the mind. Mind can think of things that doesn"t come from the physical nature.
