PSY100H1 Lecture : Lecture 2
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Has evolved from physiology and philosophy (2 different streams) Ancient egypt: first known medical document (edwin smith papyrus) showed basic understanding of some lateralization, speech centers, etc. but held that the heart was the centre of consciousness. Science has always been contextualized in a larger set of societal/historical/political e. g. processes. Theological/religious barriers impeded the progress of physiological science. Proposed the first systematic account of the body as a machine; physiological processes described in terms of mechanistic interactions, controlled by hydraulics (fluids) and mechanics (levers) Thus, human and animal bodies were simply complicated machines, consistent with the times (machines being introduced to the world) However, what set humans apart from animals was the m ind, which was non-physical but able (somehow) to interact with the body. Was revolutionary for arguing that the immaterial mind and the body can influence each other. Splitting of mind and body still plagues us to some degree.
