SOUL-BODY PROBLEM

Author: MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA SALVADOR.
Year: 2003.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.

Summary: It identifies the requirements for a model advocated in mind that the studies on the philosophy of consciousness and related disciplines, are being developed at the Universidad Complutense in recent decades. It added requirements imposed by the neurological bracket (drawn from biologismo evolutionary) and the formalization of its symbolic content (drawn from the psychology of language). It compares systems topological representation of the psyche held and proposes a new plant based on the axes Uso-Mención (x) / Concreción-Abastracción (y). It was justified, since the field of materials science and engineering, the foundation of the adequacy of the level proposed in the coincidence of its basic structure with the overall process of growth and knowledge of the subject, which is the step of processing the series by symbolic parallel synthesis. It makes a comparison of the plane are its physical counterpart, or domain tiempo-frecuencia (Wigner plane), which gives good results in various fields of science such as communications and bioengineering applied to the interpretation of neural records. It is proposed on this plane of consciousness dynamic model based on the roles love, desire and knowledge, which stand out as intrinsic properties of its operations the bidireccionalidad causal asymmetrical between content and form one hand and the autopoiesis or growth and transformation Since itself on the other. They are two states of consciousness main, the creative and recreational whose processes of differentiation, transformation and integration are described. They are taken on field unconscious consequences resulting, in his speech on the functional relationships, and the multilevel structure segregated from the successive nesting triads contenido-yo-función synthesizer crystallized by the habit. The model is in contrast with twenty authors. On some (Kant, Freud, Jung, Tolman, Maturana, Varela ..) are conducted an essay partial reintepretación in mercao model test and debug. It ascertains the degree of compliance with the requirements of the model resltando their contributions and limitations. KEYWORDS Mind, a model of mind, mental functions.

Author: ONGAY DE FELIPE IÑIGO.
Year: 2006.
University: OVIEDO [www.uniovi.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFIA UNIVERSIDAD OVIEDO.

Summary: Our purpose in this Doctoral Thesis is none other than to provide a comprehensive analysis of the initiative released in 1993 under the rubric of Project Great Simio through which a distinguished group of philosophers, etólogos, psychologists and men of science, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, the proposed expansion of the so-called Commonwealth of Moral As in chimpanzees, gorillas and oranguntanes based on the similarities regarding hoombre (ethological, genomic and all kinds) that the proponents of the Declaration of the Great Apes have warned such animals. Thus, under the premise of the project, such similarities provide precise grounds to the qualification of these animals are not human and moral people. Such a proposal collides outright, as is natural, with the conception, on animals and their relationships with men, has been traditional in philosophy, most notably with mecanicistas doctrines like that of Descartes and Gomez Pereira. In our analysis we serve, in the manner of conceptual framework of philosophical system known as Materialism Philosophy, as it has been developed in Spain by Gustavo good from the decade of 1970.