Different Types Of The Mind The Human, Animal, And...

Philosophy 3500 Final Paper Seneca Cherry 12.2.14 Abstract This essay Introduction The mind is made up of numerous classes of procedures that can be studied empirically; this paper will limit this field to psychology. There are three different types of the mind: the human, animal, and the mechanic. The human mind is the paradigm of the mind; the mechanical mind exists as a challenge to materialism or mind-brain identity theory. This leads to the anti-materialist argument: intelligence is made up of levels of mental processes in which the mind is the genus and intelligence is a species of this genus. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and like the mind, human intelligence is the paradigm of the intelligence. There†¦show more content†¦It would belong to the domain of metaphysics, and if the mind were a substance it would individual. Despite this, the mind is a collection of numerous classes of processes that can be studied empirically. These processes are known as â€Å"mental processes,† this is the way we can suggest the vicious circle statement that the mind is the collection of the different mental processes. There are ways to avoid the circularity of the previous statement by describing the various classes of these â€Å"mental processes.† The information boils down to four concepts that we can use to distinguish the main types of mental processes. 1) Perceptions – the organized reception of information, 2) the memories and storage of information, 3) our beliefs and judgments surrounding the information we received, and finally 4) our plans – arrangements of information and how we plan to act. From here we can give a more complete description of mental processes. Our own bodies have sensations (internal such as pain), and then we have external sensations (from other bodies). We have perceptions which help us construct a more or less definite object. We as humans also retain memories that can come from different sources. We elaborate images with various degrees of creativity. This helps us form beliefs about ourselves and other people (things or ideas). From here we can develop conclusions that allow us to receive new information from previously received data; this