Artificial consciousness

Consciousness What do the word consciousness mean? The word consciousness can be defined from the dictionary as subjective experience of perceiving oneself and one’s surroundings. However, psychology do not have a logical definition for the word consciousness. Psychology said that consciousness is occasionally confused with the conscience. Your conscious does not stay in one place but it’s changing every second. This may seem like a chaos but it actually happens very smoothly and easily.…

physical or mental, by minds or goings-on in minds" (1). It is modelled around the question how mental causes, for example, the fear of spiders can result in physical reactions involving sweating, a change in blood pressure or even the loss of consciousness. Therefore, it provides an argument in favour of physicalism since it seems to contradict the strong separation of mind and body suggested by dualism. But does it really disprove the fundamental difference between the mental and physical and…

Dalloway, Virginia Woolf points out that the view of life and death is rooted in individual consciousness. Some people die, their consciousness still live; some people live, their consciousness is empty, they are the walking dead. Although Clarissa has well material life, her spiritual life is empty. Therefore, the death of Septimus hints what she lacks: the necessity of recognizing individual consciousness, which makes the rebirth of mind not only in the…

Divine nature of the Universe is a highly controversial topic engrossing the minds of philosophers since the Antiquity up to nowadays. Mostly these controversies arise from the inconsistency of theological explanations on the nature of religion. Another topic under debates is on the subject on Human nature. In the given paper, I am going to compare Cleanthes’ and Philo’s views on Deity and reflect upon their disagreements on the inductive argumentation, and provide the explanation of deductive…

Introduction Safety is an important part of life that people sometimes overlooked until it costs them money or personal discomfort. Webster’s dictionary defines safe as “the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss.” As a wastewater professional, can you do your job safely? This book is intended to stress the importance of safety in the workplace by dividing it into two categories: Risk Awareness and Risk Management. Risk Awareness Safety is a 24 hour a…

As part of the Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE), the Speaker Series class offers the students the opportunity of participating in several events, which raise awareness on some of the issues that our society faces nowadays. This class allows students to be more involved in the community and teaches them that every voice can have an impact in a problem and every voice deserves to be heard. During the Fall semester 2016, I participated in four events: Truth Telling: Promoting…

Awareness is defined as “the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness:” by dictionary.com. This nine letter word separates reality from delusion. Many people are not aware of who they are or what is really going in there relationships. It is a human attribute that we all face at one time in our lives. The first person who is unhappy as a result of his self-confusion is Happy from “Death of a Salesman”.The next person, Biff from “Death of a Salesman”, is someone who is…

Melodie Gibson HIST145-001Professor KuskowskiMarch 28, 2018 The Body in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise The body — both male and female, figures prominently in the correspondence between Abelard and Heloise. However, they conceptualize the body in very different ways. Abelard positions the physical body within metaphor — as something that should be shed in favor of spiritual attainment, while Heloise believes that spiritual attainment is inextricably linked to physical (perhaps more…

The following essay will seek to explain Jacques Lacan’s theory which is made up of the mirror stage, and comprises of three various registers, namely the symbolic, the imaginary and lastly the real. It will then continue to describe his foundational term of the gaze, and move on to explain Lacan’s implementation of the metaphor as well as how ones unconscious is structured like a language. The essay will end off with the history of psychology in relation to its Jewish roots. Within Lacan’s…

Living is learning. From birth to death, people live their lives gaining knowledge whether consciously or not. A child learns how to speak and walk unconsciously; youth consciously learn different ways through life as long as they have the will to live. Adults learn from mistakes and the vastness of life they see ahead. Though knowledge is immense and can be obtained in all places, people with the fear of welcoming the unknown will always be limited in the knowledge they obtain. They may only…