1 Compare and contrast the views of John Searle and Rene Descartes on dualism.
Dualism claims that all real objects are either physical or nonphysical. Rene Descartes maintains that reality is composed of two substances: mind and body. Mind is immaterial essence and body in material essence. All our thoughts and feelings are immaterial and exist in our mind, while our body exists in material space. He believed that they interact with each other at some point in the body. On the other hand, John Searle holds a version of dualism known as supervenience theory. At times, he claims it is dualism, and at other times, he claims it is not. He thinks there is a mental and a physical. He claims that consciousness comes from or supervenes upon the physical, in this case the brain. The mental plays a casual role in explaining behavior and in our actions. Those views can make sense of the notion that our thoughts, feelings, and intentions exist, but they are not the same as material objects.
2 Compare and contrast the views of George Berkeley and Thomas Hobbes on the mind. George Berkeley claims that exist different types of mind. He states that the world is composed of two …show more content…
Computers are programed by human’s mind; they do what humans made them for. They do not develop themselves, and they dot fix themselves. They have all the information storage that is why they do things faster and more accurately than us, because we prepared them to do that. Also, we all know that when we play versus a computer, they almost always win. I do not think that it is because they are smarter than us, just because they are many people involved in the programing on those games, that means more that one mind thinking, and you are only one playing. I also think that if they could think, mine would have already freeze or block after reading what I am writing. Who knows, maybe they do. But if they do, we were the only who made them
Dualism claims that all real objects are either physical or nonphysical. Rene Descartes maintains that reality is composed of two substances: mind and body. Mind is immaterial essence and body in material essence. All our thoughts and feelings are immaterial and exist in our mind, while our body exists in material space. He believed that they interact with each other at some point in the body. On the other hand, John Searle holds a version of dualism known as supervenience theory. At times, he claims it is dualism, and at other times, he claims it is not. He thinks there is a mental and a physical. He claims that consciousness comes from or supervenes upon the physical, in this case the brain. The mental plays a casual role in explaining behavior and in our actions. Those views can make sense of the notion that our thoughts, feelings, and intentions exist, but they are not the same as material objects.
2 Compare and contrast the views of George Berkeley and Thomas Hobbes on the mind. George Berkeley claims that exist different types of mind. He states that the world is composed of two …show more content…
Computers are programed by human’s mind; they do what humans made them for. They do not develop themselves, and they dot fix themselves. They have all the information storage that is why they do things faster and more accurately than us, because we prepared them to do that. Also, we all know that when we play versus a computer, they almost always win. I do not think that it is because they are smarter than us, just because they are many people involved in the programing on those games, that means more that one mind thinking, and you are only one playing. I also think that if they could think, mine would have already freeze or block after reading what I am writing. Who knows, maybe they do. But if they do, we were the only who made them