PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Psych, Materialism, Falsifiability
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Lecture 1. 1 there"s no soul in psychology. To follow something scientifically, an assumption has to be made that the behavior of that said thing conforms to natural laws. Souls are a spiritual entity, which means they do not conform to natural laws. Therefore trying to interpret them with a scientific process is pure foolishness. If human behavior was not partially, if not totally determined by natural laws, then it should be possible to study it scientifically. Psychology is a very complex science, therefore you make progress at a slower rate, psych is also very young 1850-1900, less than 150 years old. Animism- suggesting that something has a soul (i. e. rocks) Rene descartes believes animals have no souls, they are just machines. He believes animals don"t feel pain, they just react to the situations. Rene believes humans are machines, however we are ultimately controlled by a soul, which means humans are responsible for their actions.
