PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: David H. Hubel, Neurology, Sensory System

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ron Sheese

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Chapter 5: body and mind, how do we get from body states to feelings, damasio doesn"t know the last step but he knows the steps leading up to it, substance and aspect dualism. Looked at which neurons fired: starfish, avoid predators and escape to safer places despite having neither eyes or brains, there is a signaling system that goes from one aspect of the body to the brain. Spinoza"s contributions and insights: aspect dualism, descartes saw the body and the mind as two separate things, descartes" view is a step forward because in theological terms, all of this was god"s. Spinoza wanted to look at it as one thing with two aspects business: humans had to right or reason to look at the body. Psyc 1010: descartes gave new life to an investigation of the body in the 19th century, spinoza said that the body and the mind are two aspects of nature/god.