PSYCH261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Chalmers, Spinal Cord, Cerebral Cortex
28 Nov 2015
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The brain and the workings of the brain essentially are the mind (no other substance that is separate from the brain) Reductionism (reducing the mind into just physiological aspects of the brain) Basically our mind depends on the prior cause and events. Easy problem (trying to understand what kinds of states of the consciousness of the mind are related to types of brain activity, associations of the brain areas and their activities; ex. Hard problem (why is there consciousness and how does brain activity become consciousness?) Central nervous system (brain + spinal cord, encapsulated within the spinal hall as well as the skull) Peripheral nervous system (comprised of nerve tissues outside the location of the neuron) Behaviour is at some part related to the neurons. Glia (supportive cells, they themselves don"t conduct the electrical roles but do the supportive roles such as giving the food/distribution for the body) Cytoplasm (jelly-like that contains organelles, contains nucleus)
