PHIL 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pineal Gland, Mental Event
19 Feb 2018
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How does interaction occur: physical injury causes mental pain, mental decisions cause physical actions. If descartes is right, that mind is distinct from body, what is their. The (cid:498)common(cid:499) sense (cid:523)p (cid:887)(cid:888)(cid:524) = pineal gland (cid:498)no(cid:499) p (cid:887)3: soul and body are (cid:498)commingled(cid:499, ) am a (cid:498)union(cid:499) of soul and body. ) feel damage, ) don"t (cid:498)learn about it(cid:499) Soul causes things tot happen in the brain that wouldn"t have happened if. If non-physical soul can influence physical brain, then human brain must not be completely governed by the laws of physics. Mind and physical world cannot casually interact. So god must have arranged them to line up together (cid:498)pre-established harmony(cid:499) Relationship of visual track to sound track in a movie. What does it all mean? (p 33-36) But matter can have two different states: mental states and physical states. There is only one kind of substance matter.
