Body and Mind- Blog 2

I have decided that throughout this course I'm choosing to question the body and mind correlation. How is it that you body is made up of and works on a totally different composition than your mind? The body and mind are like apples and oranges, they are both fruit, but two different taste and appearances. How is it that we can have unconscious thought and our body will never be affect by it? How is it that we can have a missing limb but still feel it? Or, we can take that a piece of our brain out correlating to a limb that is still intact and not be able to feel that limb any longer. How do we know that what one person perceives is the same as another, or even what's true to be perceived? If two people get burnt with the same exact object, do they feel the same thing? If the body and mind are similar and function the same amongst everyone, why are sensations and perceptions different between people? Two people can see the same car accident and
give two totally different accident reports to the police, why? Then later when asked to recall their story may even give a whole new story than before.

Dualistic Views
*Interactionism- beliefs and desires casually interact with physical state (Wikipedia)
*Occasionalism- contention that everything is devoid of causal efficacy and that God is the only truly causal agent (Philosophy of Mind)
*Psychophysical Parallelism- This view retains both the dualism of mind and body and the notion of a regular correlation between mental and physical events, but avoids any assumption of causal mind/body connection, direct or indirect (Serendip)


http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/mindbody.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/17th.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)