PSY 4130 Lecture 2: Chapter 1 (Part 2)
13 Feb 2017
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How are the mind and body related: materialists. Matter is only reality, thus everything must be explaining in terms of matter. Everything can be explained n the physical realm. Nothing beyond the physical realm: idealists. Attempt to explain everything in terms of consciousness. What is physical in front of you is just a representation of what is present in your own consciousness. Everything in the world can be explained by mental" events: monists. Believe in only one view: either materialist or idealist: dualist. Believe that there are both physical events and mental events. The question is how are they related: types of dualism. Mental processes are by-products of brain processes. Environmental events causes both mental events and behaviour simultaneously, which are independent of each other. Humans cannot be divided into mind and body. Mind and body are aspects of the same person. Some dualists propose a pre-established harmony between mind and that is coordinated by an external agent (i. e. god)
