LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Verbal Behavior, Karl Lashley, Jerry Fodor

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

Document Summary

Ling 1010 lecture 6 - nature and nurture across different. Different approaches to nature and nurture on the development and. Res extensa - extended thing , or, as descartes described it, corporeal substance . Res cogitans - thinking thing , or, according to descartes, mental substance . The mind is a collection of programs, with each program having a different speci c function. The body (and thus the brain) is res extensa. The body is a physical substance, measurable, weighable. The soul continues to exist, even after the body has decayed. Idealism (berkeley;) it"s all in the mind; there is no reality" : reality is the product of your own mind; your mind is constructing the reality that you experience. Or there is only matter: materialism; the mind is what the brain does , materials are only a side product of what happens in the brain.