PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Electric Machine, Simple Math, Phenome
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He be- lieved in dualism which is the idea that humans have a soul and free will. John locke went further and even categorized the mind itself into a machine and be- lieved in empiricism since knowledge was acquired through experience alone. James mill believed in materialism which is the notion that we are no different from an- imals and it is most commonly believed today! Luigi galvani proposed the idea that the human body was an electrical machine he put electrical current through frog legs in order to make them move coming to the con- clusion that the body is truly an electrical machine. Johannes muller in his doctrine of specific nerve energies stated that a basic message could be sent along all nerves with the same electrical impulse. One person would squeeze then the next and the next until it reaches the end of the chain.
