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The non material mind or soul , is seated in the brain's pineal gland doing the thinking, while the body is like a machine that operates by animal spirits, flowing through the nervous system to cause movement.
DESCARTE
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Purpose of philosophy
Socrates believed that main purpose of philosophy is to increase happiness through analysing and understanding one self, famously saying:- The unexamined life is not worth living.
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PVS
Persistent vegetative state in which patients in a coma are awake and breathing independently, but have apparently lost all higher brain functions.
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Intelligence- Alfred Binnet
Intelligence is not a fixed quantity, but grows just as the child does, and even though we have devised a way of quantifying it, no number can ever give an accurate measure of a person's intelligence.
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Tip of the tongue syndrome
A syndrome in which we can nearly but not quite grasp a word from memory that we know very well.
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Flashbulb Memories
A special kind of autobiographical memory in which people give a highly detailed, vivid account of the exact moment they learned about an event with a high shock value.
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Choice Theory
It holds that we are all motivated to act in ways that increase pleasure and decrease pain.
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- The whole is greater than the sum of parts.
- The conscious mind is merely the surface of a complex psychic realm.
- To live the good life is to learn to trust ourselves.
- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment, it finds a meaning.
- The greater your number of exposure to something, the more affection you will feel towards it.
- Any deed that any human being has ever done, however horrible is possible for any of us to do - under the right or wrong situational pressures.
THE PSYCHOLOGY BOOK
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