【耶鲁公开课：心理学导论】Lesson 2 这是你的大脑(10)

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Some of the sampled denied having any religion at all - said they have no religion at all. Still, when these people were asked what would happen when they would die, most of them answered, "I'm gonna go to Heaven."
So, dualism is emmeshed. A lot rests on it but, as Crick points out; the scientific consensus now is that dualism is wrong. There is no "you" separable or separate from your body. In particular, there is no "you" separable from your brain. To put it the way cognitive scientists and psychologists and neuroscientists like to put it, "the mind is what the brain does." The mind reflects the workings of the brain just like computation reflects the working of a computer. Now, why would you hold such an outrageous view? Why would you reject dualism in favor of this alternative? Well, a few reasons. One reason is dualism has always had its problems. For one thing, it's a profoundly unscientific doctrine. We wanna know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness. And dualism simply says, "it's all nonphysical, it's part of the ether," and hence fails to explain it.