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Phineas Gage before and after the accident...

• Before: efficient, capable, and temperate. After: fitful, irreverent, and profane

• Before: poor, hard working, tall. After: wealthy, tall, and complex

• Before: lucky, rich, and fast. After: unlucky, middle class, and slow

• Before: used to be hard working businessman. After: a laghing matter at a circus

The story of Phineas Gage illustrates that

• damage to the brain might, but not necessarily, affect our character

• damage to the brain was a medical issue that proves the power of neurology

• damage to the brain has implications in the way we are

• damage to the brain used to be more serious than it is now

Materialism argues that...

• our mental life emerges from behavior

• our mental life emerges from our physical brain

• our mental life emerges from our cognitive states

• our mental life emerges from the mind exclusively

Descartes argued in the XVI...

• The nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from that of the body (that is, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore it is possible for one to exist without the other.

• The nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is not completely different from that of the body (that is, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore it is impossible for one to exist without the other.

• The nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is complementary to that of the body (that is, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore both need each other.

What is the physical seat of thought?

• The central nervous system

• The peripheral nervous system

• The brain

• sympathetic and parasympathetic

The RIGHT brain is mostly associated with written language, spoken language, number & reasoning skills, and logic skills.

• FALSE!!!!!

• TRUE!!!!!!!!