CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. Strictly speaking, it need not hold that the mind is identical to the brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Descartes’ main argument for the qualitative difference between mind and body is that bodies are extended and divisible, whereas, mind is unextended and indivisible. He infers the substance ‘mind’ from clearly and distinctly observing that qualities like thoughts, willing and doubting must reside in something.

Detailed explanation-3: -Epiphenomenalism is the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. Behavior is caused by muscles that contract upon receiving neural impulses, and neural impulses are generated by input from other neurons or from sense organs.

Detailed explanation-4: -There is an age-old problem in philosophy known as the “mind-body problem.” One quick way to state the problem is this: what is the relationship between the mind and the body–between the mental realm (the realm of thoughts, beliefs, pains, sensations, emotions) and the physical realm (matter, atoms, neurons).