PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Barry Beyerstein, Mental Substance, Physicalism
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Phl 201 - week 3 - lecture 8 - logical behaviorism. Correlation with the mental state and the brain state (causal) Developed hundreds of years ago; humans were animal-like. We"re merely just collections of mutations on earth. Neuroscience - seeing and understanding more about the brain. If you affect the physical, you affect the mental. Serious thought arose in people such as galileo and copernicus. How deeply the physical affects the mental. Arrested development - brain ceases to mature. Example: study shows some pedophiles were also abused by other pedophiles in their early ages. Typically searching for children who were their age when abused. Pedophiles don"t make it past x age brain development due to the trauma caused. Psychological evidence for psycho - neural identity (barry beyerstein) Mental states - recall the nature of mental states. Mental properties had by a mental substance. Physicalists will attempt to recast mental states.
