Soul Mind And Body

Question 1

Personal identity

Answer 1

Something that makes us the same over time
Genetics
Experienced etc

Question 2

Bodily identity

Answer 2

Theory that you are your body and thoughts

Question 3

Evaluation of bodily identity

Answer 3

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Materialistic easy to understand account of parenthood
Consciousness explained through chemicals and electrical signals
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Cut hand off, less me?
More than just a body that gives us rich experiences we have through consciousness

Question 4

Psychological identity

Answer 4

Own memories and experiences thoughts and emotions, changing over time but linked to same mind that has them

Question 5

Psychological identity evaluation

Answer 5

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Accounts for human perceptual lives of humans
Account of ourselves rooted in the experience we have everyday
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Went into coma and lost memories are we still us?

Question 6

Psychological continuity theory

Answer 6

Person at one time is the very same person at a later time if and only if the person at the later time remembers the experiences from the earlier time

Chain of person stages connected by episodic memory

Question 7

Same soul theory

Answer 7

Person at one time is the very same person as a person at a later time if snd only if the have the very same immaterial soul

Question 8

Same body theory

Answer 8

Person at one time is the very same person as a person at a later time if and only if they have the very same material body

Question 9

Physical continuity

Answer 9

Any point in time body is a little bit different from how it was before

Question 10

Mind body problem

Answer 10

Problem of explaining how mental states,events and processes are related to physical states given that the human body is a physical entity and the mind appears non physical

Question 11

Plato view on the soul

Answer 11

Reason
Spirit
Desire
Soul lives on
Heaven and hell
Linked to world of forms

Question 12

Aristotle view on the soul

Answer 12

Die, soul doesn’t live on
Soul and body as one
Prime mover started everything off
Everything has 4 causes

Question 13

Qualia

Answer 13

Trying to explain what perception is in the mind

Something unique in human consciousness that can’t be captured in material terms

Question 14

Monism

Answer 14

Mind or body, world is reducible to 1 type of substance

Question 15

Idealism

Answer 15

Denies existence of material substance

Objects of ideas that can’t exist without being perceived

Question 16

Materialism

Answer 16

No soul, what appears to us as mind of consciousness is rooted in the physical and material process of the brain

Question 17

“I think therefore I am” descartes

Answer 17

Mind and body are separate substances

Question 18

Empirical belief

Answer 18

What we know through senses

Question 19

Substance dualism

Answer 19

Two sorts of substances exist- mental and physical, independent existence

Question 20

Gilbert ryle says Descartes made a category error

Answer 20

He reduced everything to go mental or physical