PSYCH 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Duchenne De Boulogne, Linguistic Universal, Antithesis
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Collected a bunch of them and put them in a terrarium - able to act intelligently without a brain. Concluded: cns doesn"t matter - we act the same as all these other organisms, but because we do have one, we are able to act differently. Gets into the question: how do humans relate to other animals? . Shift in focus from issues of the mind to the questions about the organism and its relation to the environment Raised opposition to cartesian dualism: shifting focus from individual to both individual and environment, understanding experience as well. Not compatible with simple associationism: associationism- in terms of learning and knowledge, not compatible because darwin conceives of us as willful and act-full being. Individuals within a population vary (physically, psychologically: inheritance, variation can be passed to offspring, selection, variation best suited to environmental pressures allow for successful adaptation. In the face our creator was not concerned with mechanical necessity.
