PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Marine Iguana, Erasmus Darwin, Second Voyage Of Hms Beagle
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History of psyche: progressed over previous, few thousand years, e. g. for most human history, people pondered the residing area of the mind or consciousness , 20th century seat of human consciousness central nervous system = human consciousness. Emotional mind are separate, and the thinking mind acts as a. Restraining force on the feeling mind: post biological and neuroscience revolution re-emergence of cognition & emotion; emphasis on interdependence b/w individual and group. Scribbled away in obscurity for decades, trying to overthrow. Aristotelian philosophy (predominant in the last few decades) . Descartes proposed: what set humans apart from animals was mind, which was non-physical but (somehow) able to interact with body was point of difficulty for him splitting of mind & body still plagues us. E. g. consciousness can be measured with tool of time: darwin, driven and curious personality. Psy100 lecture 2: possibly biggest influence on subsequent psychology = theory of evolution, built on previous theories (erasmus.
