Mind & World Final

Question 1

Plato’s chariot metaphor

Answer 1

One horse is beautiful and noble wanting to fly into the heavens. The other is ugly and bad and represents our base nature. the driver is our rational self trying to keep control between the two pulling in opposite directions.

Question 2

Plato on math

Answer 2

it is the truth

Question 3

Plato on the soul

Answer 3

the soul can not be destroyed and are immortal

Question 4

reasons for believing in the soul -Plato

Answer 4

it is immortal

Question 5

Aristotle matter and form

Answer 5

matter is an unstructured object that has not yet been actualized. Form is the characteristics of the matter that make an object what it is.

Question 6

Aristotle 3 human forms

Answer 6

1.)Nutritive soul (plant)
2.)Sensitive soul (all animals)
3.) Rational Soul (human beings)

Question 7

Aristotle empiricism

Answer 7

knowledge is derived from sense-experience

Question 8

Aristotle direct realism

Answer 8

Aristotle says that a perceived object affects the sense organs in such a way that they become like the object in form

Question 9

Aristotle eye and ax metaphors

Answer 9

if an axe were a living thing then its body would be made of wood and metal however its soul would be the thing which made it an axe i.e. its capacit to chop

Question 10

Genesis what we’re made of (2 materials)

Answer 10

dust and the breath of life

Question 11

Genesis what we’re made to resemble

Answer 11

God

Question 12

Epicurus what happens when people die

Answer 12

there is no afterlife

Question 13

Epicurus what is the rational attitude to have towards death

Answer 13

not to fear it

Question 14

Ecclesiastes the inconsistent triad

Answer 14

since there is clear evidence of evil, god cannot be all-powerful (ie he cannot stop evil) or God is not loving and good (ie he does not love us or care enough to stop evil)

Question 15

Paul bird/fish analogy

Question 16

Paul where/what a person is when they are resurrected

Question 17

Thomas where were you where are you and where are you going

Question 18

Atma Upanishad 3 souls

Answer 18

Body, individual soul, universal soul

Question 19

Buddhism 5 Skandhas bundle concept

Answer 19

Components that make us ourselves (senses)

Question 20

principle of lightness

Answer 20

when deciding between two ideas choose the lighter of them

Question 21

Buddhism exhaustiveness claim

Answer 21

Every constituent of a person are included under one of the 5 skandahs

Question 22

Buddhism anatman

Answer 22

There is no self

Question 23

Buddhism numerical vs. qualitative identity

Answer 23

you know this one

Question 24

Ibn-Sina floating man through experiment

Answer 24

Soul is not identical to the body

Question 25

ibn-Sina platonist

Question 26

Ibn-Sina astronomer

Question 27

Ibn-Sina doctor

Question 28

St. Tomas Aquinas direct realism

Question 29

St. Tomas Aquinas empiricism

Question 30

St. Tomas Aquinas geocentrism

Question 31

St. Tomas Aquinas 5 elements

Answer 31

earth wind fire earth ether

Question 32

Galileo representationalism vs direct realism

Question 33

Galileo math

Question 34

Descartes corporeal & Intellectual souls

Question 35

Descartes melting wax

Answer 35

Despite it changing we know it is still the same

Question 36

Descartes demon deceiver argument

Answer 36

If the existence of god cannot be proven then the deceiving demon must exist

Question 37

Descartes stuart’s objection

Answer 37

Our hod is a perfect being. It is more perfect to exist than to not so god must exist.

Question 38

Descartes 3 things to know prior to experience (A Priori)

Question 39

Hobbes Empiricism

Answer 39

All knowledge is derived from the senses

Question 40

Hobbes Representationalism

Answer 40

Mental images rather than the actual thing

Question 41

Hobbes naturalism

Answer 41

Humans natural state is lawlessness and chaos

Question 42

hobbes thinking=compuattaion

Answer 42

Thinking is computing

Question 43

Skinner behaviorism

Answer 43

Reinforcement and punishment shapes behavior

Question 44

skinner reasons for being skeptical of Cartesian Ego

Question 45

Turing behaviorism

Question 46

Turing test

Answer 46

can you tell the difference between a computer and a human?

Question 47

definition of a computer

Answer 47

I put output and program

Question 48

Clark otto and Inga

Answer 48

Picture of old man and young lady Alzheimer’s

Question 49

Clark extended mind and Embodied cognition

Question 50

Clark Interface

Question 51

Clark Profound embodiment