Artificial consciousness

Seemingly unrelated, Blaise Pascal’s Wager and Michael Shadlen and William Newsome’s Motion perception: Seeing and deciding are, in actuality, complementary and tie together the disciplines of philosophy and cognitive neuroscience in a thought-provoking way. In this paper, I discuss how the integration of Pascal’s Wager and Shadlen and Newsome’s research in the lateral parietal region (LIP) can reveal unique insights that are inaccessible when reviewing the texts independently. Specifically, I…

Psychoanalytical focuses mainly on the characters and what is going on internally and what their motivations are. It can also seek to understand the mind or intentions of the author. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, presents a Psychoanalytical criticism outlook when reading all of the story. Huxley creates his own desires by writing the story this way so we are able to use psychoanalytical criticism when reading. Each individual character in this story has their own thoughts about the society…

Introduction: Does free will exist? For many people, quantum mechanics has answered this age old question. For others, it has only caused an ever deepening dilemma. Free will has long been seen has a philosophical question that science cannot answer. Unfortunately, science has answered many questions that have once been “philosophical” questions. Free Will first received an answer under Sir Isaac Newton that many people have struggled to accept or even believe. Then free will received a new…

Analysis of “The Lottery” and “The Cask of Amontillado” Psychoanalytic theory is based on Freud’s idea that we can realise what does person’s thinks and feels if we look at what he or she perceives in his mind (Psychoanalytic Criticism (1930's-present)). Moreover, it follows that by analysing one of the author’s characters we are really analysing the author itself. We do not need to believe this as a whole. We believe based on experience and on some Psychological theories, that the main…

and differences in the stages of madness Jung and Augustine. Whereas for Jung emerges from the transitions points from unconsciousness to consciousness. Augustine sees the sources of madness in human sexuality. In independents between Jung’s and Augustine’s…

Theoretical Perspectives on Self-Concept Self-Concept Theory:- Each of us have different personality, traits, abilities and preferences. Sometimes we cannot understand what is really going on inside of us. While we may not be able to exactly explain why we think this way, or why do we behave in that manner. Hence, the self-concept theory is a good foundational knowledge on the importance of our perceptions towards our personal existence. In this theory Rene Descartes (1644) said that a person’s…

INTRODUCTION Self analysis is simply defined as the analysis of oneself, in particular one's motives and character. The aim of this assessment is to reflect on how I have become who I am and to briefly compose an autobiography. Instead of looking at my history in a sequential way, it aims by analyzing and reflecting the influence and factors which have shaped who I am today. In order to do this there are a few questions which must be answered. These include my family’s history, customs and…

each other. In the 1925 published novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf declares the idea of life and death is consistent with 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 and her consciousness surrenders to her life. In the case of Septimus, he has disconnected with the world, death becomes the…

Put down the fork and stop, you don 't need to take any more bites. Living life in constant fear of any weight gain, may it be only half a lb, has plagued the lives of many people for decades. The on-going issue of my weight has turned into something that has negatively impacted my life for many years. Counting calories, making sure I 'm eating healthy enough, spending hours at the gym and daily weigh-ins have become a huge part of my daily routine. Living in an age where a size zero or two are…

story of Annie Grace, who recalls her life of addiction to alcohol. She recounts her steps to sobriety all within her own power, by changing her unconscious and conscious thoughts. “Anything unconscious dissolves when you shine the light of consciousness on it” – Echart Tolle (p. 26, para 2). Before Annie 's sobriety, she believed as many people do, that in order to become sober it would mean a life of misery and constant struggles. "If my choice is to live a life of misery in diseased…