Blog #5

Are the mind and body seperate?
Personally I belive that they are sepaerate and that they work together to control a living thing. The are seperate in that they each have there there own idententy and can exist withou each other. Although the mind does control the body as far as what it does the body does not control the mind and both can exist with out one another even though the body may not work the same. The body is a physcal thing that can be touched and examined clearly. The mind is something that you can not touch nor can you measer it. The mind is non physcal but does exist and work with the body to control a live thing.
The standard term for this is call Dualism that was started by Descrates. And he belive that the mind was non physcal and that the body was phsycal. And that we as people can imagine the mind without the body and the body without the mind, thus making them sepearate.

Blog # 4

Mind-Body Dualism- A theory that says that the mind and body are different kind of things. The mind is non-physical and the body is physical.

The Mind- the intellectual power in man, understanding cast of thought and feeling, inclination, opinion, and memory

The Body- The trunk of an animal; main part, matter, a persona system; strength; reality; any solid figure

Mind-Body Identity- Events in the brian cause mental experinces. One way discovered by W. Penfield. It helps us understand how introspection works.

Functionalism- implies that any sufficiently complex system will have a mind and that the physical composition of the system doesn't matter.


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