Physiology and Psychology
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Physiology and Psychology
Since houndreds of years ago physcology is known to be one of the many branches from phylosophy. Phylosopy has been given the famous defenition of, the study of nature and the meaning of the universe and of human life. Phylosofy was the mother of several sciences including Psycology. The etimology of Pysichology goes back to the latin terms of phyche which means soul or mind and ology wiich means study. The Greek used the word psukhe to define “phyche” as breath, life and soul. However, the word psyche has a lot
to do with the spirit or soul, with the mind ,its center of personal thought,behavoir or emotion. Pyscology can be conducted both scientifically or nonscientifically. Science tends to concentrarte on the characteristics of the brain rather then the mind by measuring imagination, for example, using devices that measure electic pulses which creats signals representing reactions in order to know when a perosn begins the act of imagination. However science many times begins to ignore the existence
of the mind. It cannot see even the setting of a person’s imagination. Their are several contraversies that deal with this matter. The mind and the brain relate to an obvious extent but they also are very diferent.
Certainlty, with the mind one cannot observe it or even hold it a thought within ones hands. Because of the world we live in now people begin to rely on their eyes and on scientific expertimentation, limiting ourselves to understand the mind. We might not even know if we can rely on our eyes , since we may be confused and unsure of what reality reallly is. However, the mind does existe within every human being’s consciouse. The mind is nothing less then the ablitly to think. We as human beings make the mind exist by having our heads in constant actibity in our invisible worlds. The mind never seems t o stop, it is constant such as in, images, emotions, feelings, memories of success or failure etc. We have the ability
to control the mind. People who become