PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Substance, Res Extensa, Jill Taylor

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

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Psyc100 lecture 3: watched tedx video on intro woman loses her left hemisphere functioning in a brain haemorrhage (studies brain science and mental illness. ) What we know of reality is what the mind produces example is the tedx speaker"s reality changed when she had a stroke. Minds of different creatures will be different and depend on the creature"s stimulations in the world. We are fields of energy action potentials help in processing and transducing. Psychology understand how mind generates reality and how it affects our behaviour: subject matter , nature of mind . 1) jill taylor: a stroke of insight - ted talk. Left hem stroke, she described it as losing her linear mind or conceptual mind. Loss of language, concepts, certain analytical functions and loss of. Promoted dominance of right hemisphere she described this as a nirvana experience (loss of subject/object separation she couldn"t distinguish when her arm ended and the wall started)