saint thomas aquinas spread the theory that one is a product of the mind and body.
who spread the theory that one is a product of the mind and body?
saint thomas aquinas
descartes, influenced by the automatons on display throughout the city of paris, began to investigate the connection between the mind and body, and how the two interact. his main influences for dualism were theology and physics. the theory on the dualism of mind and body is descartes's signature doctrine and permeates other theories he advanced. known as cartesian dualism (or mind-body dualism), his theory on the separation between the mind and the body went on to influence subsequent western philosophies. in "meditations on first philosophy", descartes attempted to demonstrate the existence of god and the distinction between the human soul and the body. humans are a union of mind and body; thus descartes's dualism embraced the idea that mind and body are distinct but closely joined. while many contemporary readers of descartes found the distinction between mind and body difficult to grasp, he thought it was entirely straightforward. descartes employed the concept of "modes", which are the ways in which substances exist. in "principles of philosophy", descartes explained, "we can clearly perceive a substance apart from the mode which we say differs from it, whereas we cannot, conversely, understand the mode apart from the substance". to perceive a mode apart from its substance requires an intellectual abstraction, which descartes explained as follows:
rené descartes
the mind-body problem and the role of consciousness in the individual's highly subjective perceptual and experiential domains continue to be a subject of debate amongst neuroscientists and psychologists. very little is known about the mechanisms behind the emergence of conscious agency such as the individual "self" . widely spread approaches and theories include neuro-physiolological models that view mind and consciousnesses as a by-product of the brain's neuronal and physiological mechanisms. global workspace theory describes consciousness as a subjective event appearing in working memory. theory of mind sees consciousness as closely linked to social interaction and feedback system. temporo-spatial theory of consciousnesses uses temporal and spatial framework to link four neuronal mechanisms of the brain with the specifically defined dimensions of consciousness. alongside the conventional approaches quantum theory has been finding its way into the field of hard problem of consciousness since early 90's. hameroff, penrose in the orch-or theory proposed that the basic carriers for consciousnesses in the brain are not neurons, but the microtubules and can account for quantum phenomena of superposition and entanglement. henry stapp suggested the definite role of the conscious observer and the need for inclusion of quantum model into neuroscience and psychology. john eccles posed a question if mental events could be linked to "changing the probability of emission in many thousands of active synapses" without the violation of conservation laws. basar et al. further developed the concepts of brain's s-matrix and brain feynman diagrams as well as brain's string theory.
quantum psychology