PS263 Chapter 2: CHAPTER 2 - Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
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Chapter 2: evolution, genetics, and experience: zeitgeist the general intellectual climate of our culture. 2. 1 thinking about the biology of behaviour: from dichotomies to. Is it inherited, or is it learned: for centuries, scholars have debated whether humans and other animals inherit their behavioural capacities or acquire them through learning. Problems with thinking about the biology of behaviour in terms of. Physiological-or-psychological thinking runs into dif culty: not long after descartes"s mind-brain dualism was of cially sanctioned by the roman. This patient was suffering from asomatognosia, a de ciency in the awareness of parts of one"s own body. Asomatognosia typically involves the left side of the body and usually results from damage to the right parietal lobe: the second case describes g. g. gallup"s research on self-awareness in chimpanzees. The point of this case is that even nonhumans, which are assumed to have no mind, are capable of considerable psychological complexity in this case, self-awareness.
