B4 Psychology
QUESTION #1:
So far we have talked about monism and dualism and nature vs. nurture. Tell me what your thoughts about it are? Which side do you lean towards?
posted by Mr. Fong | 10:13 AM
QUESTION #1:
So far we have talked about monism and dualism and nature vs. nurture. Tell me what your thoughts about it are? Which side do you lean towards?
posted by Mr. Fong | 10:13 AM
24 Comments:
I think that both monism and duelist have good points, but I tend to lean more twords the duelist side of things. I believe that the mind and spirit existed before the body and brain did, and that they will live on forever. I also believe that nature overpowers nurture. I believe that you are born with a certain personality because you can see certain traits in your future personality as soon as you are born. i know that the way you are raised sometimes changes your personality but your personality traits that you are born with will usually over power those that are acquired.
I would be duelist, except that they don't believe the brain affects the mind at all. Therefor I'm in the middle, leaning toasted monism. The difference is that while I believe the mind and brain are different, I believe they do affect each other. The brain is the vessel which translates the will of the mind to the brain, and that something that happens to one will affect the other. I believe that physical difficulties that occur in the brain are serious and real, and that physical treatment is important, as is mental.
Edit: apologies, I meant I'm leading towards dualism.
i am a duelist, i believe that the mind and brain are two very seperate things. i believe that when we die our mind will leave or body and brain and leave with our spirit.
In my opinion both points of view, monism and dualism have correct points. I personally believe that there is a relationship between brain and mind, that they influence each other to a certain degree. But I don't think that the mind is just a product of the brain and that they can't act independent from each other. I'm not quite sure what happens to our mind and spirit after our death. My belief in that particular area kind of leans toward monism, but since I'm really insecure, I'm open for all the possibilities. After all I will find out some time, even though I hope it won't happen too soon!
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Duelist. Monist. Othilie-ist. Just kidding. I am probably a duelist. A mind and a brain separately simply makes a very great amount of sense to me. You know how you have a left and a right side of the brain with different things like logic and math and that 'school-related' knowledge on the left, and feelings and creativity and that stuff on the right? How on earth did they ever come up with that if the mind and brain weren't related. Hall-oooh, feelings? Feelings placed in brain? I think there must be some kind of relation, or maybe the mind just covers some other stuff we can't really define? Ah, my brain/mind/head hurts when speculating too much. I don't wanna do it. I am, and will always be .. insecure of this. Goodnight.
I believe that the brain does affect the mind, but the mind is not a product of the brain. I also believe that the mind/spirit/soul will live on after death. So I am straddling the fence between the two as well as many others. I believe Nature has a great effect on everyone, some of us are born with many talents, or we naturally develop our talents, some of us are born with disabilities to a degree. But I believe Nurture has a greater effect on people. We learn things from our parents (good or bad) that really just build who we will someday be. The enviornment we grow up in and learn from has a greater affect on our lives than characteristics we were born with.
I would have to say that I am a duelist, and that when you die your spirit lives on.
I would say Dualist, I don't believe that when you die your mind just vanishes. That's almost like saying your gone forever. I believe that when you die your mind leaves along with your spirit. I guess we will never really know the answer to this question but it's always fun to think.
I would have to lean toward the dualist side because I believe that the mind can live on after a person dies. I also think that Nature has an effect on us in the fact that people were born differently and have some disabilities.
I think I lean towards the duelist. That does not mean I agree will all of it's points though. I think that the brain and the mind are seperate but that they work together. I think that mind lives on with our spirit but not in a ghost like way.
I would also have to say that I think that nature has a bigger affect then nurture. I have seen in my own house how we have all been raised basically in the same environment, but that we are all so different. And I think that we were born for the most part that way.
DUELIST im no piece of flesh that survives in its surroundings... im a talking learning experiencing human with feelings and talents. we are not just another species on earth that eats drinks and sleeps... we are different from everything else out there.
I think that i am in the middle of monist and dualist. because i strongly believe that when your brain dies you die. but at the same time i believe in ghousts and how would that work if your sprit is dead when your dead. also i believe that your are influenced by nurture but nature plays alot of part in things also. my mom has anxiety so i have anxiety and it has nothing to do with how i was raised. nature and nurture play a part in life hand and hand to me.
-Ciera Garrett
-B2
Im monist. The way I see it the mind and brain are so close and similar how could one possibly live without the other? If the brain dies what is keeping the mind alive? how do we know it is alive? dulism makes NO sense to me.
ook fong for some reason im logged into my sisters account...this is really MCKAYLA JOHNSON not katie.
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I'm more monist then I am dualist, but I do not think that you could fully function on just either just the brain or just the mind. I believe the brain is what helps the mind feel what it feels and decide what it does. They have to work together to really make sense of things. You can't only have the biological view on things, or you will never see other points of view and how they can effect the human as well.
I think that I would be more monist because like Mckayla said how could the brain survive without the mind, or the other way around. The brain does help the mind feel what its feeling and it wouldn't do that if the the brain and the mind were separate.
i lean more towards the dualists, because i believe the mind and brain are seperate, but they are also connected in some ways, so i also believe the monists have some good points.
Neither monist or duelist are necissarily wrong scientifically, but when it comes to believing whether the brain and mind are the same i would most likely be a dualist for the most part but i do believe they have relations with each other.
We obviously have traits from our parents whether we like it or not, but i believe the outlook people have on life determines the way they were raised at a young age and their life experiences. Everyone has a different background and the future is unpredictable we have to dodge or catch what comes at us and we do that with free-will. Free-will allows us to be who we want to be. If everyones life was determined when they were born they could just blame everything on their parents because they made them that way. if we can't control our actions and we have to rely on everyone else for it then you might as well just call us robots instead of human beings. If a human being can do something it should have just as much ability to NOT do something and if it can think it can make a decision to do so.
I have a hard time picking just one side because both have opinions that I can believe, but I think I lean more to the duelist side of things. My mind and brain are totally different, If you run me over with a car and I die my mind will move on along with my spirit.
Then there's Nature vs. Nurture which again I believe both have a huge effect on who we are. Nurture is what I believe in a little more thought, just because with all the experiences in my life I can see how they've changed and molded me into who I am today
I am a mixture between monist and dualist I believe there is a brain and a mind, but I believe that they heavily influence each other. I am heavily leaning towards nurture because I believe people can be whatever they are allowed to be and encouraged to become.
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