PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Hermann Von Helmholtz, Luigi Galvani, Wilhelm Wundt
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There"s no soul in psychology: psychology is a very progressive science, very young (as we go through chapter one). Answer goes back to the title all about soul : for many years, humans thought of themselves as spirits in material world. Things of god, things of a spiritual world or embodiment of christ. Angels in a physical world everything else follows laws of nature, but we have a soul, spirit something different: there are no degrees of freedom that the potato story, does, souls are spiritual entities. Does not have to conform to physical laws: cannot imply god to science, science is not anti-religion, finds religious ideas useless from a scientific. If were are spiritual ntities, and is governed by spiritual forces and not natural laws, then are behavior is not subject to scientific investigation: humans are different and therefore, we did not study ourselves.
