PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, James Mill, Scientific Community
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Something is science when experiments are done to eliminate theories, rather than philosophy which is purely theory and belief. Animism -> belief that inanimate objects have soul and/or intentions -> anthropomorphism. Magic -> concept of soul that is there b/c we don"t understand ourselves and is like magic but once we figure out the mechanisms, the magic goes away and so does the soul. Rene descartes (1596-1650) nervous breakdown at 17 and had to chill out. Paris and went to new feature and saw statue of diana (artemis), and as he approaches he sees. Neptune blocking him to see the statue and he was amazed. (hydraulics brought out water not let him pass) he saw however that the stone and statue acted like they had a soul. If something moved with intention, it had a soul back then so rene discarded this theory.
