Week 8 lecture

The lecture in this week talked about virtual philosophy which made me a little misunderstanding, once again Daniel brought this fresh topic to us . We started from talking about Plato, and those people who live in the caves. According to the lecture notes, I realised that the people in the caves were seeing real objects, and they were just seeing the objects's shadows. Through this phenomenon, we can see virtual philosophy has similar concept with it, it, sometimes people think their idea is real, however, actually it is not real.

Descartes and Cartesian Dualism were discussed by us in next part. Actually I do not know about psychology at all. But I did some research in this part on line that can make me to understand easily. With the materials claim that dualism is a set of views about relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the describe that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.

Descartes' famous saying epitomises the dualism concept. He said, 'cogito ergo sum,' 'I reflect therefore I am.' Descartes held that the immaterial mind and the material body are two completely different types of substances and that they interact with each other. He reasoned that the body could be divided up by removing a leg or arm, but the mind or soul were individual.

http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/cartesian-dualism-faq.htm

Virtual Reality as a concept which has been connect human's bodies. Imagine that people just have brain, which our body without hands, eyes, legs. In that time, our brains are more like computer system. Our bodies's behaviours ordered by our brain, we can make something real or not real through our brain.