PHL 201 Lecture Notes - The Conscious Mind
30 Apr 2012
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Some brand of materialism may seem to many of us as obvious, but that"s not necessarily the case. This is the metaphysics (often only implicitly) of natural science . Most of us have no trouble making the distinction between natural and non-natural kinds: between things like giraffes and stones on the one hand, and bank accounts and nhl hockey, on the other. A mini figurine, red in color, of a horse. Plato thought of humans as divided into an immaterial soul and a material body (dualism). We are fundamentally 2 sorts of things a duality of things. Aristotle (his student) thinks of us as nothing more than a living body with a specific form and principle of organization enabling it to perform certain functions. Analyze a human body and you will find nothing but the material of which it is composed: bones, tissues, muscles, and ultimately, molecules and atoms. Another interesting dualistic argument (or, at least an anti-monistic one)
