Artificial consciousness

Personality is a combination of a person’s continuous characteristics as he or she grows older. Different people have their own different personality. Everyone has different characteristics which contribute to their own unique personality. Psychologists Freud, Jung, and Skinner all had their own positions on the different aspects of personality. While I may choose one to be more credible than the others, I will also choose the one that will be of most value to me in my career. Sigmund Freud…

In the poem "I felt A Funeral In My Brain", there are many different ways to interpret the meaning of this poem. It can be assumed that the speaker is going through a very traumatic event in her life. The funeral going on in her head was very traumatic for the speaker, and she did not like it at all. The poem could be the metaphor for the traumatic event. It is also possible that the speaker just has a really bad headache and wanted to write about it. And it can be assumed the speaker was not…

Our minds and body correlate to each other and are the reason we can move and willingly do what we want. However, are our minds and body distinct? Can we even exist without a mind or without a body? Rene Descartes’ theory of “Mind-Body Dualism” discusses such philosophical questions and claims that although our mind and bodies are synced, they are not similar by way of division. Many questions remain on how “Mind-Body Dualism” works, many of which will be discussed in this paper, beginning with…

The Legendary Fall “About suffering they were never wrong,” Landscape with the fall of Icarus both the painting and poem displays a level of suffering that should not happen to anyone but, sadly it does. The painting gives you more of a visual approach as to what is happening and you can draw your own conclusion. This painting displays quite and unnoticed because it shows someone drowning and everyone else turning a blind eye. The poem on the other hand is clarifying what is happening in the…

XXVII: Identity and Diversity, John Locke begins by saying that we only have ideas of three substances which are God, finite intelligence, and bodies. John Locke then goes on to state that personal identity also has to to do with the the string of consciousness and has nothing to do with remaining the same substance or matter which is either physical or mental. John Locke states, “When we consider something as existing at a given time and place and compare it with itself existing at another…

reduce it to a merely moving-image beyond the constraints of cinema or provide the reader with an overview of key works that fall under the category . Nonetheless, it progressively seems to be associated with the expansion of space, extension of consciousness, immediacy of viewing or real time as well as is simultaneously utilised as a definition for experimental mixed-media works. It is generally accepted that the term was initially introduced in a manifesto ‘The Culture Intercom’ issued in…

Substance Dualism is a theory of mind that asserts the thesis that there exists the mind (nonphysical) and the body (physical) and that they are two distinct substances. Moreover, it identifies a being immediately with their mind and only secondarily with their body. Logical Behaviorism is branch of philosophical behaviorism. Behaviorism, essentially, is the thesis that mental states, if they exist, are identical to behavioral states. Logical Behaviorism posits that descriptions of mental states…

Sigmund Freud was a psychologist who made influential breakthroughs in neurology, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. He published many books, one being The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and went on to give a series of lectures in the United States. Freud produced many theories throughout his career, investigating human behavior and, more specifically, the human mind. These theories created by Freud have caused many to rethink their values,questioning how the mind truly works. Freud, the…

understanding of the dichotomy of the human psyche? While studying and comparing the positive notion of creation and the detrimental effect destruction has on an individuals being we begin to comprehend the complicated and dichotomous nature of human consciousness. William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan drama Macbeth (1606) and the Romantic poems of William Blake ‘London’ (1794) and ‘Human Abstract’ (1794) each validate the convoluted emotions of love and betrayal whilst exploring their different…

and male privilege. In her article, McIntosh mentions that much of her male colleagues’ oppressiveness was unconscious (p. 87). Considering this author also mentions that unearned privilege is harmful for men’s development, the idea that a man’s consciousness is not fully developed due to such a narrow world view can be considered. Now this theory is not to say that people that are privileged are undeveloped or less developed than those that do not experience privilege; but from my own…