PSY493H1 Lecture Notes - Brain Damage, Limbic System, Retina
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Theme is he tries to be a humanist and when brain damaged the person is damaged, its not damaged but differently able, different not impaired. Brain memory but mind doesn"t, if one in the same, there is stuff in there with no axis. Legal system is breaking apart the mind and the brain, acts as mind is something in addition to the brain. Most are dualist, the mind and the brain separate. Place where memories are stored, the limbic system its older part of the brain his older parts were hyperactive. Idea of localize function to parts of the brain. Playing thing out may think its you but another thing. Philo and neuroscientist, not measure cells but data is neuroscience. Issue is mind body problem or ontololigcal problem how mental existence comes from brain matter. Mental state and matter what different from a rock. All mental things can be reduced to material of the brain fucntionalism.
