PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Res Extensa, Episodic Memory, Pineal Gland
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The renaissance (redefining the human being so they"re no longer viewed as being passive) revolution in physics methodological empiricism (looking around and making observations) + deduction (making theories about the world) You can ask this question, which affirms the innate knowledge"s existence. If you think, therefore you are: rational and deductive thinking permits acquisition of remaining knowledge a. If you have a moral dilemma, you must pull from your divine knowledge of. God and your innate knowledge about it: you can do anything, you just need to pull from your innate knowledge, sensation and perception are untrustworthy modes of knowledge acquisition. Descartes is one of the most well-known dualists. He caused the development of two different streams: physiology & (b) psychology. Matter is res extensa: extended substance, forms the body, material and organic, body acts in an unconscious/automatic environment. Physiological processes, emotions and feelings, and movement of the limbs .
