PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Luigi Galvani, Tabula Rasa, Pineal Gland
PSYA01 – Lecture 1: Without Soul
The Revelation of the Soul
- Part of us thats ot phsical. Spiritual etities ad, as such, DO NOT cofor to atural
laws (scientific process thrown out)
- To pursue something scientifically one must first assume that the behaviour of that
living conforms to some sort of natural laws, laws that can eventually be understood,
specified, and used to predict future behaviour.
EARLY PSYCHOLOGY:
- Aiis concept that there is some force that makes things happen in specific ways
o E.g Volcano erupts, ppl think oh the gods are angry. Need to sacrifice a virgin
and throw her into the volcano to please them. (Volcano bound virgins)
- If a computer can do what a human can do, is the machine intelligent? Or is the human
not?
- “Dualis
o Renee Descartes (1596-1650)
▪ Before he firmly believed that things that mvmt is powered by the soul
▪ Hydraulics were discovered; a statue moved by a machine. He re-
evaluated humans and animals
▪ Cartesian Dualism – concept that human nature has 2 distinct parts; 1 is
machine (biological) and the 2nd can be controlled by the soul (body is
puppet of the soul) through pineal gland (back of head).
• Opened the door to human anatomy
▪ Animals have no soul – like car is hurt i a crash ad screeches
o John Locke (1632-1704)
▪ Souls DONT eist. The id is a achie
▪ La table rassa – a blank slate, life shapes you (nurture)
▪ Epiricis- father of scietific ethod we lear through the seses
o James Mill (1733-1836)
▪ Materialism
▪ No soul, no spirits, we are materially governed
o Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)
▪ Biology – frog legs move, applying static electricity on certain muscles
and nerves
▪ MIND BLOWN – dead body can move, proved that the body is a machine
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