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The 'mind-body dichotomy' is the view that "mental" phenomena are, in some respects, "non-physical" (distinct from the body). The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts.1
This view of reality leads to consider the corporeal as little valued[1] and trivial. The rejection of the mind-body dichotomy is found in French Structuralism, and is a position that generally characterized post-war French philosophy.[2]
The absence of an empirically identifiable meeting point between the non-physical mind and its physical extension has proven problematic to dualism and many modern philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body.[3] These approaches have been particularly influential in the sciences, particularly in the fields of sociobiology, computer science, evolutionary psychology and the various neurosciences.[4][5]Russell, S. and Norvig, P. ''Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach'', New Jersey:Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131038052[6]
Plato argued that as the body is from the material world the soul was from the world of the ideas and was, so, immortal. He believed the soul was temporarily united with the body and would only be separated at death where it would then go back to the world of the forms. As the body exists in time and space and the soul does not, it can therefore access universal truths from the world of ideas.
★ Dualism- the mind dwells in the body.
★ Materialism- the mind is an extension of the body, chemical reactions.
The aim of the soul is to out survive the body where it will return to the world of ideas, along with the identity of the individual.
1. ''The mind-body problem'' by Robert M. Young
2. Turner 96, p.76
3. Problems in the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford Companion to Philosophy, , J., Kim, Oxford University Press, 1995,
4. Pinel, J. ''Psychobiology'', (1990) Prentice Hall, Inc. ISBN 8815071741
5. LeDoux, J. (2002) ''The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are'', New York:Viking Penguin. ISBN 8870787958
6. Dawkins, R. ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976) Oxford:Oxford University Press. ISBN
★ Turner, Bryan S. ''Body and Society: Exploration in social theory'' 1996
★ Sacred-profane dichotomy
★ Chinese room
★ Descartes' Error
★ John Searle
★ Mikhail Bakhtin
★ Strong AI vs. Weak AI
★ Dualism (philosophy of mind)
★ Bodymind
★
★ ''The mind-body problem'' by Robert M. Young
René Descartes' illustration of mind/body dualism. Inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit.
The 'mind-body dichotomy' is the view that "mental" phenomena are, in some respects, "non-physical" (distinct from the body). The mind-body dichotomy is the starting point of Dualism, and became conceptualized in the form is currently known in the Western world in René Descartes philosophy, but also appeared in pre-Aristotelian concepts.1
This view of reality leads to consider the corporeal as little valued[1] and trivial. The rejection of the mind-body dichotomy is found in French Structuralism, and is a position that generally characterized post-war French philosophy.[2]
The absence of an empirically identifiable meeting point between the non-physical mind and its physical extension has proven problematic to dualism and many modern philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body.[3] These approaches have been particularly influential in the sciences, particularly in the fields of sociobiology, computer science, evolutionary psychology and the various neurosciences.[4][5]Russell, S. and Norvig, P. ''Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach'', New Jersey:Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131038052[6]
| Contents |
| Plato's Idea |
| Notes and citations |
| Bibliography |
| See also |
| External links |
Plato's Idea
Plato argued that as the body is from the material world the soul was from the world of the ideas and was, so, immortal. He believed the soul was temporarily united with the body and would only be separated at death where it would then go back to the world of the forms. As the body exists in time and space and the soul does not, it can therefore access universal truths from the world of ideas.
★ Dualism- the mind dwells in the body.
★ Materialism- the mind is an extension of the body, chemical reactions.
The aim of the soul is to out survive the body where it will return to the world of ideas, along with the identity of the individual.
Notes and citations
1. ''The mind-body problem'' by Robert M. Young
2. Turner 96, p.76
3. Problems in the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford Companion to Philosophy, , J., Kim, Oxford University Press, 1995,
4. Pinel, J. ''Psychobiology'', (1990) Prentice Hall, Inc. ISBN 8815071741
5. LeDoux, J. (2002) ''The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are'', New York:Viking Penguin. ISBN 8870787958
6. Dawkins, R. ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976) Oxford:Oxford University Press. ISBN
Bibliography
★ Turner, Bryan S. ''Body and Society: Exploration in social theory'' 1996
See also
★ Sacred-profane dichotomy
★ Chinese room
★ Descartes' Error
★ John Searle
★ Mikhail Bakhtin
★ Strong AI vs. Weak AI
★ Dualism (philosophy of mind)
★ Bodymind
External links
★
★ ''The mind-body problem'' by Robert M. Young
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