PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Pineal Gland, Thought Experiment
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If it did so, the mind would introduce new energy and force into the physical world. All human capacities then, are capacities that evolved from physical animal capacities: so all human capacities are physical, norman malcom pointed out 2 difficulties with smart"s theory, thoughts have no spatial location but brain phenomena do. Thus, thoughts cannot be identical to brain phenomena: some thoughts require a background of practices, agreements, assumptions, but brain events don"t. So mental states are not identical to brain states. The behaviorist view of human nature: another materialist view, began as a school of psychology that restricted the study of humans to what can be observed namely, human behaviour. Psychologists argue that since they cannot observe states of consciousness, psychology should not be concerned with them: gilbert ryle claims we can explain mental activities in terms of observable behaviour, nabiel knows what chairs are.
