MINDBODY

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The MIND
-
BODY relationship This is the relationship
between a human body



and its unique mind.








MIND BODY

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Theories of the body-mind relationship can be
divided

into two broad categories Monistic and
Dualistic theories.
Monistic theories These suggest that mind and
body are not separate
substances.

A mind is generally thought to be of a substance
other than
a physical substance. Berkeley, and others,
as the
idealists,
were monists of a different sort they theorized
that the body was
simply a mental representation
.
Spinoza proposed that mind and body were the

manifestations of some third property--what he
considered God. This is the

theory of double-
aspectism, another monist view.
Thinkers like Aristotle, and the Behaviorists,
Skinner, as an example,

collectively thought of as the
materialists,
postulated that the mind was

nothing more than a bodily function.
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MONISTIC VIEWS



Idealism According to idealism, what one knows
to be real is in some way

confined to the contents of one's own mind.



Anything we experience through our senses is
colored by how our mind perceives it. We
therefore cannot

have acc
ess to external reality. Only thoughts and ideas
that originate in the mind can be immediately
experienced.
Idealism stands in stark contrast to the theory
of materialism, which endorses the physical,
spatial, factual domain as the
ultimate reality. Plato'
s theory of forms/ideas has been compared to
idealism, although the forms were not confined to
the

mind but existed independently of it(Realism).


It has also been argued that Descartes'
contribution, in which access to the mind is
prioritized, influenced ideali sm. Idealism has
been pervasive since the eighteenth century, but
has been less popular in recent times.
However, science has recently discovered truths
about the nature of the microscopic universe that
has brought Idealism back into the realm of
possibilities as a philosophical sound theory
Glenn is smart

.



We can only know of BODY through MIND.
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Materialism This is the view that only physical
matter is real. The body

is governed by strictly material, non
-
mental causes. Inasmuch as mental

properties exist, they have no causal
effect on the physical body
.

Strict materialists may hard
-
headedly deny that anything mental exists at all.
Others may concede that the mind exists, but
characterize it as being
dentical to the brain. The earliest exponents of
something resembling materialism were the Greeks,
Democritus and Aristotle. A specifi
c type of
materialism is epiphenomenalism, the view that
the mind is a byproduct of physical processes.
Another type of materialism is naturalism, the
notion that nothing supernatural exists.








Only BODY is real. MIND may not even exist.
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DUALISTIC VIEWS

Dualistic theories According to the
dualist view, mind is thought to be
of a substance other than a physical
substance.
Popular
dualists were
Descartes,
and James, who belong to the school of
thought known as
interactionism. Other dualistic views include
parallelism,
epiphenomenalism, and
occasionalism.
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. So, how does the non
-
physical mind affect

the physical body, and visa versa?
Descartes assumed that this interaction

occurred in the pineal gland.




Im telling myself to exercise, in case your were
wondering if I was some type of
pervert Sometimes MIND affects BODY.

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what an idiot


My wife, of course








Sometimes BODY affects MIND.


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OccasionalismIt seems that God is following us
around all day, and when

the mind gives the body some instruction,
or visa versa, God makes it

happen. Remember the problem we had with
Interactionalism? We could not

explain how the mind
and body affected one another. Well, we have
that all

solved here. When your mind decides it
would like your body to be on the

other side of the room it gets some
Almighty intervention. Occasionalism

was popularized by 17th Century Fr
ench philosopher, Nicolas Malbranche.

The problem with Occasionalism is that it
not only supposes that there is

a God, but that he also has time to follow
each and every one of us

around.







Im not sure about whats going on here at all
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When MIND and BODY interact, God mkes it happen
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again, no idea