PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - James Mill, Luigi Galvani, Paul Broca
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Everything around us is material, but we have a soul, a spirit. Things that are non-spiritual behave in accordance to physical laws. By testing the laws of nature, we can predict what will happen. Souls are spiritual entity; it does not have to conform to physical law. Parts of the element stick to one another. Animism suggesting something has a soul. If you understand something it isn"t magic anymore. How much of our giving ourselves a soul, is really a reflection of not understand our behavior. It is possible for things to move, have intention but we know that it isn"t alive. Animals have no soul, they are machines, their movement, reactions, and intentions. People wanted to test this, started cutting animals. Cut the vocal cords, so you wont hear the pain from the animals being tested. Cartesian dualism, we are 2 things (duel nature) pert material part spiritual.