HPS200H1 Lecture Notes - Supervenience, Masturbation, American Psychiatric Association
16 Mar 2014
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There are schools of thought that indicate that there is no such thing as mind (just the. The soul/mind were immaterial--existed in a different way than the body did. View that mind and body were coordinated. Believed that mind and body did interact. Thought that the body could affect the mind, and the mind could affect the body. This view has been very problematic for people studying the mind later on brain)---these people are materialists. There is only the material thing that exists; anything else is a function of that. Others believe that there is only the mind, and the body is just a creation of the mind. Most people think that there are minds and brains and bodies, and that the brain is the most obvious place where the mind would exist. One such theory is identity theory (reductionist) Says that mind and brain are the same thing, but we give them different characteristics.
