Apr 10 – Final Lecture (wrap up)
Note that this is lecture was all (minimal) review. Enjoy.
According to Levitin (and Dennett) the point of psychology is to form just the right question that
will allow us to get an answer we didn’t know before.
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‘With the wrong questions, we don’t get further’.
Where do thoughts come from?
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Most scientists believe thoughts are a product of the brain (and not of outside forces)
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There’s no such thing as ghosts or gremlins, or whatever
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Most people who are not scientists (and some scientists) believe that thoughts can have
an existence independent of the brain
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Those who believe the mind arises from the brain are called
monists
(and in particular,
‘materialists’)
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Those who believe the mind can exist independently of the brain are called
dualists.
The intention of this course is not to teach you the right answer to this question… because there
is no right answer.
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The purpose of the course was to teach you the major topics of cognition (the science of
though)
The
cognitive science
approach can be applied to a host of real-world situations and to
understanding applied and practical problems in a variety of domains.
Ex)
we can use what we learned about evolutionary psychology to consider the source of
moral judgments.
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- Psychology, switch, Hauser, moral judgments, trolley
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