Advantages And Disadvantages Of Dualism

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Dualism has limitations, but learning the weaknesses of the theory creates a better understand. The view of dualism is the mind and body both exist as separate entities, but also influence one another. Personally understanding the theory, because of learning experiences with a neurological disease, mental illness, and religious practice, Identity theory also is relatable to cognitivism paradigms, expanded on "mind" from the theory, and behaviorism is one of the main paradigms and helps Identity theory expanded its knowledge from behaviorist views. Dualism is believed to be started with a 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, Rese Descartes. People learn in my learning theory by connect body and mind even if they are separate because …show more content…
In Psychology class, the teacher asked: "Are mind and body separate or connected?" We all spoke about our own opinions on the question, then learned more about dualism. The first real experience was in the neurologist office when Dr.Britian said the disease was due to an internal clock of my brain that wasn 't a physical piece of my brain but caused real physical symptoms and pain. Later on learning more about dualism through an experience with depression during high school. In those two learning experiences of cluster headaches and depression, dualism was aggravating and confusing in the situation. In light of all that, Nichiren Buddhism was discovered during senior year of high school. In a classroom with a friend, who was a fortune baby, (born into Nichiren Buddhism) explaining, how good health and wellbeing must come from both physical and the spiritual. Having personal experience with a neurological brain disorder that brings Identity theory into reality. Cluster headaches are the worst and most painful headaches discovered by medical research teams. What causes a cluster headache is unknown, all is known that it’s due to your internal clock which physically doesn 't exist. Every time an episode occurs the same organ, hypothalamus, "lights up" on SPECT or FMRI scans. In theory, it 's well aware of what is going on during a cluster, an imaginary clock striking 12, in the hypothalamus part of the brain. Including the causal relationship between this imaginary clock and a real organ. The learning experience from cluster headaches shaped the way of seeing dualism, to sum it up it was surprising. It 's surprising because having a disease that physically isn 't there, but shows up in the human body and changes the mental processes and physical aspect of

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