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THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM Primarily, the mental apprehension is aroused by the occurrences in certain parts of the correlated body, the occurrences in the brain, for instance. Thus the bodies are perceived as with qualities which in reality do not belong to them, qualities which in fact are purely the offspring of the mind. The attempt to retain a simple dichotomy between mind and body is also hard to maintain in the face of recent studies of psychosomatic symptoms. human-nature.com /rmyoung/papers/pap102h.html   (3659 words)

Bogdan M. Popescu / Subjectivity and the Embodied Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Descartes claimed that the essence of mind is thought or consciousness as substantially distinct from the body/matter whose essence is extension. By contrast, Aristotle did not separate the soul from the body since he found the distinction useless: "it is as though we were to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, or generally the matter of a thing and that of which it is the matter". Talk of the mind, one might say, is merely a convenient façon de parler, a way of speaking about certain human faculties and their exercise". www.cloudsmagazine.com /18/Bogdan_M_Popescu_Subjectivity_and_the_Embodied_Mind.htm   (4717 words)

The Rise of Experimental Psychology Philosophical psychology, concerned with the epistemological problem of the nature of knowing mind in relationship to the world as known, contributed fundamental questions and explanatory constructs; sensory physiology and to a certain extent physics contributed experimental methods and a growing body of phenomenological facts. Rather, when "the mind has, by constant experience, found the different sensations corresponding to the different dispositions of the eyes to be attended each with a different degree of distance in the object...(and) there has grown an habitual or customary connexion between those two sorts of ideas,... Intuitions are native tendencies to mental action, aspects of the fundamental constitution of the human mind which regulate the conscious experience of all human beings from birth. serendip.brynmawr.edu /Mind/EpistemologyoM.html   (1789 words)

LUSO: Ayn Rand vs. Plato: Two Philosophies, a World Apart Thus for Plato, mind -- be it the mind of the creator, or the intellectual realm of the forms -- is the operative metaphysical concept. For man, this means that his body is somehow base and low, whereas his mind is detached and superior. Mind and body are integrated, and this is a principle which will echo throughout her system, just as Plato's mind/body dichotomy does for his. www.lawrence.edu /sorg/objectivism/plato.html   (3033 words)

Mind/Body Dichotomy A thorough knowledge of the philosophy is not necessary to the student; however, a basic understanding of the history of the philosophy of the mind is imperative to comprehend the current debate, especially as it relates to AI and computer use in the library. Descartes offered his proofs that the mind's existence must be possible independent of the body and began the debate over whether consciousness is inseparable from the body, a debate that remains central to the mind/body dichotomy in AI theory today. In it he argues that reductionism is insufficient to understand the relation between mind and body and that the difficulty lies with consciousness. www.swcp.com /~ldraper/slim/biblios/hibbert.html   (6647 words)

AMA (Virtual Mentor) Medical Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Descartes envisioned a mechanistic body with strings and pulleys and a separate soul that pulled the levers [13]. The operational dichotomy that develops is called mind-body dualism, a result of intricate church-science social relationships and a mainstay of Cartesian thought [14]. Either the mind is at the mercy of fate and genetics, or it is a tabula rasa, continually being written upon and shaped by the environment, without active participation of its “owner” other than conditioned (learned) responses. www.ama-assn.org /ama/pub/category/print/11138.html   (1703 words)

DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES It assumes that bodies take on meaning according to cultural particularities, and it calls in to question Western ideas about the proper relationships between body, mind, spirit, and self. While these new approaches to the body have problematized the “natural” body and expanded analyses of the relationship between the body and its social, cultural and political institutions, rarely have they seriously troubled the waters of dualism. Culture, society and the individual (the self as mind) become the subject in a cause and effect relationship where the body is acted upon. web.whittier.edu /academic/religion/syllabi_religion_body.html   (1009 words)

Mind-Body Connection Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) When people’s thoughts are positive, their bodies reflect that—they become very healthy, because the chemical responses in the brain tell the body to be healthy. Your body is an amazing structure, because it can heal itself from virtually any disease, and lose as much weight as you want it to, providing your mind gives it the proper direction, and you get the proper nutrition. The best body began to emerge, as it adapted to the increase of the amount of cardio training to 45 minutes per day, for 3-4 days per week, and the strength training for an hour per day, 1-2 days per week. www.mindtobodyconnection.com /blog   (8207 words)

Philosophy of the mind The mind-body dichotomy has been exculpated from philosophy within the last century, and one of the last major philosophers to believe that there was a difference between the mind and body was Descartes. The body is usually viewed as the "evil" or "dirty" entity of our body, and this thought prevents people from encompassing the totality of the whole body when treating a problem. When the mind and body are divorced, then each part is considered to be a cog without relation to the whole. serendip.brynmawr.edu /local/scisoc/mindbody/webpapers/kdavis.html   (660 words)

What is the solution to the mind-body dichotomy? - Objectivism Online Forum Since the mind IS the body (it is a body part), an action or 'event' of the mind is an action or event of the body. In my learning of the mind-body problem here in college, the false alternative was presented that either one uses logic to determine that the mind does not exist but rather it is only certain physical events occurring in the brain; or that one is a mystic who attempts to posit this nonsensical, immaterial consciousness. Please keep in mind that I have read OPAR, and found it unsatisfying in terms of its ability to provide answers to these questions (as well as why the senses are valid, why human beings have free will, and some other small points). forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=35   (4860 words)

The Moving Body - The Faculty - Kevin Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) As a student athlete he was intrigued and disturbed by the mind-body dichotomy that pervades western thought and culture. Thus began what has become a life-long journey, both personal and professional, to understand the origins of this dualism and the means of realizing a more unitary perspective and participation in life. One person may come to the studio after many years of alienation regarding their body and exercise, another may be dealing with an injury or illness, and yet another may be a trained athlete looking to gain some new insight into their fitness. www.themovingbody.com /faculty4.htm   (501 words)

[No title] Mind was being put forward as a self-contained sphere of enquiry.[1] This pole of the dualism was linked to an equally strongly-held belief that causality in the material world is based on matter in motion, 'extended substances', obeying their own material laws. Apparently not; mind was to them a convenient receptacle for the refuse, the chips and whittlings of science, rather than a possible object of scientific knowledge.[3] Deep within the grand mind-body dichotomy lay the problem of parcelling out the qualities to assign to the separate realms. The title of a collection of clinical and philosophical studies makes the point nicely: it is The Mysterious Leap from the Mind to the Body.[5] Yet the messages of the psychosomatic symptom, when unravelled in psychoanalytic therapy, are perfectly legible in the languages of metaphor, pun and symbol. human-nature.com /rmyoung/papers/pap102.doc   (3531 words)

Amazon.com: Mind: A Brief Introduction (Fundamentals of Philosophy): Books: John R. Searle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) His purview includes the relationship of the mind to the body, the role of perception in human understanding and the purported equivalence between mind and brain. In Mind: A Brief Introduction, Searle aims to introduce the reader to the historical aspects of the philosophy of mind, deconstruct existing theories, and offer new perspectives using logic, personal experiences and cases from neuroscience and psychology research. The mind, he says, is simply the operation of the brain from an organizational point higher than the neuron and synapse, the same as we might say that a computer is the operation of electronic devices, viewed at a level higher than the bit and the byte. www.amazon.com /Mind-Brief-Introduction-Fundamentals-Philosophy/dp/0195157338   (3102 words)

Soul in a Vat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) the Holy Spirit is the glue between the mind and the body.             The mind is said to be a substance because it can exist independently of the body and the Holy Spirit because God has created man in His image as a free agent.   The body is not a substance because its survival depends on both the mind and the Holy Spirit. www.phys.ksu.edu /personal/atang/mindbody.htm   (842 words)

Mind - Body - Fighting - Meditation I often say when speaking about training,that the enhancement of the body's performance is a by-product of the discipline of training the mind to train the body. In the teaching process it is a better to emphisize the training of the mind to discipline and control the 'whims' of the body. If we accept the idea that body and mind are inseparable, and body follows mind, then we have this equation. chihand.com /Archive/MindBodyMed.htm   (975 words)

[No title] The purpose of the course is to assist the handicapped student in working toward his/her strength/fitness potential and fusing the mind-body dichotomy many times reinforced by the presence of a physical handicap. The courses are taught on campus, using the facilities of the Center for Counseling and Career Developent for group counseling experiences, and at an off-campus multipurpose physical exercise center made available to the university by a member of the community specifically for this course. The purpose of the program is to assist disabled students in working toward their strength/fitness potential and fusing the mind-body dichotomy that has been reinforced by the presence of a physical handicap. www.unca.edu /facultysenate/y8283/sd5282.txt   (1761 words)

cigfrain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) one lives in one's body, to the point that to that a face looks lived in is a compliment, a recognition of the truthfulness of physical expression. but the mind is not the body, it is a process of the body. mind is not brain, or components of brain, it is patterned relations among those components, flows between them. cigfrain.terminalgarden.com /index.php/2006/03/25/masks_and_minds   (507 words)

SparkNotes: Atlas Shrugged: Themes, Motifs & Symbols Rand’s belief in the central importance of the mind opposes the prevailing wisdom that labor is responsible for prosperity. She opposes the idea that the thoughts and achievements of the mind are pure and noble, but the desires of the body are base and immoral, and she presents Dagny as a character who also rejects the idea. Metaphorically, the motive power of the world is in the rational mind, and when the mind is withdrawn, the “motor of the world” begins to stop. www.sparknotes.com /lit/atlasshrugged/themes.html   (1387 words)

Thingking through the body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and human geography have experienced an explosion of interest in the human body in recent years, as a result of the increasing erosion of binarisms such as the mind/body dichotomy. Many archaeologists who attempt to focus on the body are still trapped in the logocentric discourses which dominate the discipline, resulting in bodies without materiality, in disembodied narratives, or/and tend to reproduce the prevailing western views on the body and embodiment. This informal workshop aims to bring together archaeologists and colleagues from other disciplines who share an interest on the archaeology of the body, with the aim of exploring the possibilities and the potentials of an archaeology with real bodies, with human organisms who 'think through their bodies', via senses, emotions and bodily actions. home.worldcom.ch /~negenter/201_98fArchaBodyLAMPET.html   (304 words)

Vinod's Blog:ESR: Sneering at Courage & the Mind/Body Dichotomy Eric Raymond has a great essay about the renaissance in admiration for Courage our society is experiencing in light of 9/11 and the social causes that earlier "sneered" at it. Much Intellectual "sneering" towards displays of physicality is predicated on a conceit that the physical world is accidental rather than essential to existence (borrowing a distinction made by Fred Brooks). In order to keep "male physical power" under the exclusive control of the state's technocrats, it must first be delegitimized in everday life, and even in the individual minds of some of the state's actors outside the inner circle. vinod.com /blog/News/ESRSneeringatCourage.html   (989 words)

False Dichotomy A false dichotomy is a dichotomy that is not jointly exhaustive (there are other alternatives), or that is not mutually exclusive (the alternatives overlap), or that is possibly neither. A false dichotomy is typically used in an argument to force your opponent into an extreme position -- by making the assumption that there are only two positions. Some false dichotomies depend on a misunderstanding of one or both positions, such as the theory vs. practice dichotomy, or the moral vs. practical dichotomy, or the mind vs. body dichotomy. c2.com /cgi/wiki?FalseDichotomy   (659 words)

David Kelley's Mind-body Dichotomy In Moral Judgment - Objectivism Online Forum The thorough integration of mind and body underlying this conception of justice leaves no room for the standard debate about motives and consequences. Ayn Rand even explicitly speaks of mind-body integration just two paragraphs earlier, in the discussion of integrity: "man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness, and that he may permit no breach between body and mind, between action and thought, between his life and his convictions" (AS 937). The point of making a distinction between motives and consequences is to avoid condeming people where their limited knowledge of a sitution results in them performing an action which, while morally correct within the (incomplete) context of their knowledge, they would not have performed if they had access to all the relevant facts. forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=6190   (6196 words)

Sharper Iron Forums - Trichotomy or Dichotomy? The body is the container which will be cast aside until the resurrection when we will finally be perfect. For example, we talk about parts of the body, but where we draw the divisions with regard to the body is largely up to us (e.g. My unlearned reaction to your descriptions of "dichotomy" or "trichotomy" is that they sound suspiciously like Manichaeism or gnosticism, cults that denigrated the body. www.sharperiron.org /showthread.php?t=479   (1545 words)

Season of the Body: Essays Bodies of women in paintings, novels, and photographs mesmerize Miller, and she struggles between her desire to pose like them—graceful and tragic and locked into the viewer’s validating gaze—and the urge to tell her own bare, awkward stories. Despite her poetic nakedness, this passage ultimately holds back, disguising the vulnerable body of the single event with the gauzy covering of a pattern, a thing that happens regularly, something she’s got a handle on. While women have been answering Helene Cixous’ call to write our bodies for several decades now, we still struggle to do each story justice, as Miller herself confides: “I’m learning there are limits to what can be told, even in languages we think we know so well.” The language of the body is no exception. www.womenwriters.net /winter05/SeasonoftheBody.htm   (715 words)

Mind A vision is more than a goal; it is a larger explanation of why the body builder exists, and where he or she is trying to advance to. The answer is both: the corporal load constraints applied to the physical body, along with the psyche’s acceptance of those constrains as they are applied to the mind’s eye. A long-term goal might be to win a first place in a body building contest, while a short-term goal may be to make a minor change to the dead lift technique. www.abcbodybuilding.com /magazine03/mind.htm   (6973 words)

Beliefnet.com Perhaps the reason that some philosophers found the problem simplistic is their choice of metaphysical positions provided them an explanation on the nature of the human that could not be viewed any other way. Objectivism holds that the mind and body are an integrated unit, each radically dependent upon the other. Their view of the mind is somewhat akin to a bird where the soul provides the wings. www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=7451&discussionID=512921   (491 words)

The Joy of Living in One's Body Man is, as the subtitle of Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty II indicates, a being of mind and body. This last sort of kinesthetic repression, as a cultural tendency, has its ultimate philosophic root in the mind-body dichotomy: the idea that the mind is noble but that the body is lowly matter, not worthy of the mind's regard. Inevitably--since a sustained focus on one's body and its movement is necessary for such a thing-- anyone who makes a thorough, conscientious effort to learn proper exercise form will learn a lot about their body, how it moves, and how it feels to live in it, how it feels to be it. mikementzer.com /joyof.html   (2021 words)

The Harmony of Mind, Body and Spirit with Jack Allis, the Allis articles Quantum health means using the powers of our mind, body and spirit to vibrate at a frequency that resonates with nature's blueprint for healthy life. He begins with the mistaken philosophical premise upon which established medicine is built, the mind/body dichotomy, which maintains that the mind operates totally separately from the body. In fact, the mind works in harmony (or disharmony) with our body, and can never be separated from our physiology. www.harmonymindbodyspirit.com /articles.shtml   (1652 words)

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