PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Online Lesson: Global Workspace Theory, Terri Schiavo Case, Blindsight
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Perhaps consciousness exists because it is a substance, and this substance is separate fro different properties than, physical matter. We refer to this view as dualism, which was fa advocated by the philosopher ren descartes. Dualism - the philosophical belief that reality consists of two distinct entities: mind and m (body). Descartes pondered the problem of consciousness and concluded that it must depend on substance distinct from physical matter, because it does not have properties that we ascr matter (it doesn"t take up space, weigh anything, and so forth) A completely different view is that there is only one kind of substance in the universe, ma that consciousness is a physical phenomenon. This view is often called materialism, but y encounter it also as physicalism or even monism. Materialism - philosophical belief that reality can be known only through an understandin physical world of which the mind is a part.