Sunday, 24 January 2016

Anatomical location of conscious or description

Anatomical location of conscious or description of the mechanism of activation of specific sets of neurons, with the methods of investigation then possible, were not able to explain the complexities of the dynamics psychic. implicitly to propose the Cartesian dichotomy between res cogitans and res extensa , focusing on the latter with a unified approach reductionist. It is recalled, among other things, that in the th century. there was a tendency to attribute all of the terms and statements that refer to conditions in mental status to assertions that are deductible from the observation of behavior. American psychologists John B. Watson and Burrhus F. Skinner have the honor of discovering predictability and controllability of human behavior through the management of the stimuli before and those following of the external environment, the body receives before implementing a or behavior after the behavior has been put in place. Behaviorism expresses the most widespread form of functionalism and implies the geniux