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Dualism
Mind-Body Dualism
Many of our questions about brains, minds, and
machines are not only questions for which we do
not have answers, but questions for which we do
not even have approaches for finding answers.
What is consciousness?
How could our three-pound brains possibly
produce our rich experience of the world?
Could a machine have subjective experience?
These are the questions of philosophy of mind.
But we know that the mental does affect the physical: Our desires
result in physical behavior. We know that the physical does affect the
mental: Physical events in the world affect our beliefs and feelings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QXI_BxlY7M
Phineas Gage
Historical view of a number of things we
have learned about minds and brains,
starting with Phineas Gage.
We should be able to find out things
about the brain by seeing how the mind
works. We should be able to find out
things about the mind by seeing how the
brain works.