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A 3 page essay that briefly discusses the mind/body duality question, defining mind and consciousness. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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equates "mind" and "consciousness," but this is still not the same thing. Consciousness is "an experience," which may be "the result of chemical processes in our nervous system, but
consciousness itself is subjective, that is, how a particular person experiences life (Kando 83). To treat consciousness, or the mind, for that matter, as a tangible thing, is similar to
"asking in which part of our body life is located" (Kando 83). The human mind is "an emergent activity" that draws on learning (Kando 83). How does the realm
of mind and consciousness relate to the physical body? Many modern philosophers begin with Descartes (1596-1650) in discussing the Western paradigm of mind/body duality, that is, the notion the mind
and human consciousness are totally transcendent and separate from the body. Descartes hypothesized that the universe is can be "divided into two completely different kinds of stuff, material and mental,"
which differ in that material objects are "spatial," as they have both location and dimensions, but that mental things do not have these properties (Kendler 989). Since the time of
Descartes, and probably since the time of Plato, Western society has viewed the mind and human consciousness as essentially divorced from the physical body, which these factors are viewed
as inhabiting, in a manner that is rather analogous to wearing a specific set of clothes. In other words, the traditional view if that humanitys "inmost essence is mental and
spiritual" and should be regarded as "distinct" from the body (Johnson 46). Is there such a thing as an independent mind that transcends physical functions of the body through
the central nervous system? Advances in neuroscience over the last 20 years and what this body of knowledge has revealed about the processes involved in cognition has resulted in many
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