【耶鲁公开课：心理学导论】Lesson 2 这是你的大脑(16)

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        Descartes
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So, the question is, "How can something like this give rise to us?" And I mean you have to have some sympathy for Descartes. There's another argument Descartes could have made that's a lot less subtle than the ones he did make, which is "That thing responsible for free will and love and consciousness? Ridiculous." What I wanna do, and what the goal of neuroscience is, is to make it less ridiculous, to try to explain how the brain works, how the brain can give rise to thought, and what I want to do today is take a first stab at this question but it's something we'll continue to discuss throughout the course as we talk about different aspects of mental life. What I want to do though now is provide a big picture. So, what I wanna do is start off small, with the smallest interesting part of the brain and then get bigger and bigger and bigger - talk about how the small part of the brain, the neurons, the basic building blocks of thought, combine to other mental structures and into different subparts of the brain and finally to the whole thing.