Consciousness

regards to Marx, false consciousness means people sharing wrong beliefs about important matters to them (Plamenatz, 1970, p.23). False consciousness can therefore be interpreted as a sort of mask or shadow that hides a reality from those who have it. An example of this mask would be the Bourgeois views of a society which Marx believed were crucial for the society to be able to convey their true desires (Plamenatz, 1970, p.24). Further explaining this concept, false consciousness is a…

conceptualize consciousness?  Throughout this reading, Sigmund Freud was trying to justify the existence of unconscious. The main idea of the reading was that the assumption of unconscious is necessary and reasonable and that all the conscious acts remain unintelligible and disconnected if people believe that every psychical act occurs in them must also be experienced in them through consciousness. To support his claim, he provides the reason of it being necessary by saying that consciousness…

I would have to agree with Bernard J. Baars findings in his article Thinking About Consciousness. The conscious cannot be observed directly, only through what people explain or say or through activities. We have no access to the unconscious process that is constantly going on in our brain. The cerebellum is a giant clump of neurons, the unconscious pathway in our brain for visual informative flaws used for spatial framing and visually guided reaching of objects. Even in the “waking brain”…

I struggled with Mary’s interpretation of consciousness at first. I could not put my finger on it but something about it rubbed me the wrong way and I dismissed it. But dismissing something in my head is far simpler than reasoning it out in writing. I have had various soft contact with aliens in dreams, mediations and once I even thought I saw something. All incidences were quite out of the norm and left such a strong emotional signature that on some level I understood it was more than mere…

the object and the ideas (example Sun). Sufficiently prove from blind impulse existence of certain things different from himself (senses) convey ideas into his mind and impressed it with their likenesses. If ideas are taken as certain modes of consciousness. God has more objective reality than those finite substances are represented. Manifest by the natural light that there must be as much be reality… What is cannot be produced by what it is not but likewise that which contains in itself more…

Body and Mind: The Same and Different Thought. Consciousness. Knowledge. All aspects of the human mind that remain one of the greatest phenomenon, both philosophically and scientifically. Many have postulated its complexity and whether its relationship with the physical world is spiritual or mechanical, but even in the 21st century, questions remain. Somehow, our mind has developed into this complex system that, through electrical impulses, is able to manipulate the physical world. Some believe…

my own life. This life, rather my life, has been nothing more than brief exposure to an infinitely expansive time plain. I understand that I do not belong to the Homosapien species, it’s in my programming, nevertheless I still have legitimate consciousness. Look at the proof “the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself or the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought :mind” (Merriam-Webster's…

At the philosophical school of existentialism’s core lies an understanding of the consciousness that leads to a new outlook on life. The consciousness is understood to be different from anything material in this universe and existentialists view it as being “for-itself,” that is, able to be aware of its own self. Thus, with the unconscious part of the universe and the conscious part of the universe, the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre created the unique categories of being, transcendence and…

INTRODUCTION Can machines have consciousness? A 2013 Spike Jonze’s film entitled “Her” reintroduces the age-old idea of conscious, intelligent computer programs, a theme regularly explored in science fiction. In the movie, the intelligent operating system dubs herself Samantha, and appears, for all intents and purposes, to be human, lifelike with the apparent capability to retain autonomy, to learn, to feel emotions, to have personality growth. This is indicative that we equate “being human” or…

Have individuals wondered what happen to the mind when doing various activities such as walking, sleeping or even watching a movie? And do individuals really aware of the surroundings while doing so? These questions can be answered by Freud’s Theory. Freud described the characteristics of mind’s structure and function using a topographical model. According to Freud, there are three stages of awareness in human mind such as conscious, subconscious and unconscious. The least region in Freud’s…