PSYCH 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jean-Paul Sartre, Flashlight, Arnolfini
Document Summary
We know less about the self than we think we do. [we don"t really know regarding] anti-depressants mood. People still know who they are even when they have amnesia don"t need to remember specific details to remember your preferences and likes. Studies of people with temporary amnesia could erase specific memories but retain specific preferences and the self: paradoxical self metaphors. Relation of the self to the body: democritus: everything is physical (atoms), even the self/soul; made up atom, if we have a soul, it is physical (mind and body were one) In line with social psychology today: plato: dualism, mind and body separate mind can live without body (mind and body two separate things, aristotle: self is emergent quality of the physical body (i. e. , h20) Our past/future selves are less important than our current selves show less neural acivity.
