Thursday, September 17, 2015

What does Chomsky said about "mind body problem"?

Simply put, what Chomsky means to say when speaking of
“Mind-body dualism” is the fact that Empiricism,gazes upon the study of the body as a
natural science,and that it has in some ways embraced Dualism, the  philosophical theory
based on the idea of opposing concepts, especially the theory that human beings are made
up of two independent constituents, the body and the mind or soul,that which is
undoubtedly, in no way natural and as such is clearly going against its original
doctrine;as such he finds it very hard to accept thereby recognizing it as
nonesense.



He goes on to say that Empiricism
also states that “the brain is a tabula rasa, empty, unstructured, uniform at least as
far as cognitive structure is concerned.” Chomsky states that he has no reason to
believe this and that to him there isn’t any way of disproving the fact that ones pinkie
could be the bodies most complex organ. By use of this example he
wishes to
convey that there is no reason to believe that the higher mental division isn’t
connected to the pinkie,which represents the seemingly smallest organ, per
se.

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