PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Visual Cortex, Golgi'S Method, Spinal Nerve
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Mentalism something is controlling your behavior, must be heart. Cardiac hypothesis mental experiences are emerging from the heart. A physician, where the mental experience resides, refuted the cardiac hypothesis. Instead, all these tubes inside your body are connected. Started to look at the cavities in the brain (ventricles) that contained fluids. All the tissue and blood flow is ending p in the brain and maybe the cavities are allowing for mental experiences. Nervous system is a series of interconnected tubes. Father of modern anatomy from the perspective of neuroscience. Started to dissect the brain and draw out in detail the body and the brain. Helped realize that there are these interconnections that we could view through his drawings. The human is superior to all other things according to theology. Using aristotle"s idea, he said something is inside controlling our behavior. Dualism immaterial is what controls the material (body)
