PHILOS 7 Lecture : Philosophy 7 – Philosophy of Mind.docx
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A brief introduction to the four problems we;; be examining in this course. Then some points on course administration: how does the mind relate to the body. Each of us presumably has a amind and a body. That is, each of us does things like think, feel, desire, imagine, feel pain, so forth. The sorts of things we tend to think are characteristic of having a mind. at the same time everybody has a physical body. Notice you can touch your body, you are aware of it as any other physical body. Your body is made of the same stuff as physical objects in the world. We are made of the same atoms everything else is. More over our bodies also have the properties of any other physical objects, mass density shapes. So our bodies are just physical stuff in the universe, no different in kind than anything else. Now how are the mind and body related.
