Artificial consciousness

x Rene Descartes and John Locke, both seventeenth century philosophers, have their own individual views and opinions pertaining to particular subjects such as the origin of ideas. Both of these philosophers attempt to find answers to many of the same questions in epistemology as well as metaphysics. While Descartes is a rationalist, Locke is an imperialist; his ideas come from experience. Locke and Descartes have differing views on various multiple subjects, but both philosophers support…

David Fincher’s Fight Club is a movie about self-exception and the true self as it appears to society, but it is also about a man so caught up in the consumer world that he not only alienates himself, but through his alienation he is also an insomniac in an ordered lifestyle that he ultimately detests. The narrator in return is personified by the character Tyler Durden. Tyler ultimately isn’t a real person, but in relation to the narrator he is seen as the destructive id. Which is a concept…

Memories are the basis of all human consciousness, by encoding storing and retrieving an event or occurrence that we have experienced we develop a memory. That memory can then link to trigger an emotion, which will prompt you to be in a mood. The link between memory and consciousness is crucial, because to be conscious, is to be aware of the world around you. To make a memory in which we are able to identify…

As a continuation to “Where Am I?” by Daniel Dennett, Dennett is now taking NASA to court over whether or not he deserves the right to a new body. Dennett has staked the claim that he is being controlled by two distinct entities; one of them is his actual brain (Yorick) kept inside a vat at a laboratory, and the other is a computer program (Hubert) which was originally designed to think exactly the same as Yorick, but has since diverged from Yorick to form the 2nd distinct entity. My job as a…

Bottleneck of Dreams Siddhartha Receptacle Motif Paper Bigger is better. But only when material limitations are kept in mind. When the scope of the receptacle extends to the world of abstractions— the land of infinite containers of the mind and heart— there are no tangible limits. Two friends, thinkers, wanderers, searchers from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse feels the worldly limits on their goal of enlightenment— they do not understand how to reach Nirvana, to allow the container of themselves…

Finally coming to a halt after sliding upside down on the highway were I lost consciousness and I was pronounced dead on the scene – but I still live today. I cannot recall my past self. I am one with two beginnings, an exception to the rule – no doubt. Locke would argue that I am not the same person because my conscious or thinking cannot recall my past memories. I have no psychological continuity. Because your consciousness determines your personal identity, according to Locke, not your body…

Blues, classical, pop, and any other kind of music that caught my attention filled my head with notes of strife and peace, with passion and apathy, with every other emotion imaginable running amuck through the mind of a seventh grader. Noise filled the empty hours of everyday, and kept my mind occupied, which was my sole defense against the depressive thoughts trying to leach their cold fingers through my mind. Music started as an innocent hobby, but soon crept throughout my whole life. My…

Here Teddy is taking responsibility and shows that he clearly understands and explains why he has delusional episodes which is due to his inability to face the truth of the tragic events that have occurred in his life. Yet shortly after he came back to reality he regressed and started acting out his fantasy again. His conscience isn’t strong enough to pull him back to the real world or keep himself there. Having a conscience is important to be able to live in the real world. Conscience allows…

Descartes program of methodological doubt was to doubt absolutely everything. He thought that if all were doing is perceiving how do we know that what we’re perceiving is real when sometimes even our mind makes mistakes. For example, we see things aren’t there or hear a noise that wasn’t actually made or even think we see a family member but it was actually someone else. In my opinion Descartes theory goes very deep into the mind and really makes you think and almost makes you afraid. When it…

When reading and studying the Upanishads I recognized the shifting influence that the principles of the text has had upon me through my experience of time. Specifically in the Katha Upanishad, Natchiketa’s interactions gave me insight into my own with Yama, Lord of death. I can recall standing at my Cha Cha Nancy’s home where my great-grandmother rested quietly. Her paper thin skin was withered like the sides of a wind shaped mountain and she lay with her eyes closed, arms crossed, on a…