PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Poultice, Middle Ages, Madness
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When simple things combine to create a more complex phenomenon new o laws and concepts emerge that are necessary for understanding the more complex phenomenon o o. The whole is more than the sum of its parts . Humans can choose what they think and do. Information is the basis of life and according to some theorists the universe is information. The brain is an information processing device; that is, it is a biological computer; it is a biologic substrate for information processing. Consciousness may arise (somehow) from highly complex information processing. Consciousness may be an epiphenomenon of brain cell activity. This epiphenomenon may or may not be reducible, it may or may not be causal. Information processing & the etiology (cause) of madness. Mental disorders are disorders of information processing. Two possible loci of defects in information processing o o. Two possible causes of wetware and software problems o. Genetic (inborn, the nature in nature versus nurture )
