Artificial consciousness

Who attempted to make Locke’s stance absurd in his essay titled ‘Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man’ specifically essay III, Chapter 6. Reid has several arguments against Locke, most notably against the heart of his theory, consciousness. This argument uses a child who was flogged as a boy, who would later become a decorated war veteran. The war veteran can still recall himself as a boy so by Locke’s notion he still is himself. However in the later stages of his life the war hero…

the validity of the identity theory is that we don’t know how reality compares with one’s experience: we know that the conscious experience is vastly different from the neurological experience that we can show using MMRIs—some qualities of our consciousness seemingly undetectable. (Heil, 80) In addition to the conscious and neurological experience being different the objective experience can be different, for instance people have hallucinations. (Heil, 82) Objection two is trying to argue that…

Throughout history, philosophers have been setting up plenty of theories to determine if the mind and the body are one. Substance dualism is one of those theories. Specifically, Descartes is a dualist who brings up the indivisibility argument about the mind that has been trusted until science is well developed. Even though Descartes’ argument is well-accepted, it is not strongly supported by factual evidence, and it is easily defeated by a simple question, which is how the mind and the body…

The institutionalization of dying incorporates the fact that we have control over mortality and that death can be cured and death is now institutionalized (people die more in hospitals). There have become greater scientific methods for curing and healing people. Over 11% of people over the age of 80 are in nursing homes. The family does not participate frequently in the rituals of the death. Death is less visible and prevalent. They have been given to professional and death has been kept away…

The purpose of this essay is to explain what Opacity is and contrast Opacity with Transparency. I will also explain what is a pre-conscious and deep conscious state and the difference between both and explain what opacity favors. Next, I will explain the evidence brought by Implicit Bias which will lead me to the hypothesis brought by the evidence. Then I will explain the dissociations that are formed by conscious and unconscious mental states. Lastly, I will explain why I believe mental states…

Our definitional model of consciousness states that consciousness cannot be explicitly measured, however is biologically rooted and dependent on the brain. Although consciousness is cognitive and internal, it is developed through social interactions with others as well as social reflections on those interactions. In this way consciousness is a social construction that is rooted in, and dependent on, cultural grounding and context (Lutz 1992, Sandstrom 2010). This ‘awareness of awareness’ is…

body is a widely debated and unsolved topic that has plagued the human quest for truth. The question has deep philosophical roots and has several titles, for example, the mind-body problem, mind-body interaction problem, or the hard problem of consciousness. Prima facie, the question may appear unnecessary as we ourselves obviously have minds, and we can physically feel and experience the world around us. Descartes famously stepped up the game on this question with his Meditations’. He broke…

Then Martians, computers, or anything that can be conscious about its own consciousness can be consider a person. Self-consciousness is distinct for human. A dog has its consciousness since it has its desires and beliefs, yet, unlike human, it can’t have conscious experience of their thoughts and attitudes. Also, Baker thinks that a human person is constituted by human animal when it has self-consciousness. Constitution is the relation between entity and the material that entity is made of…

The Bimini Road is something that you probably haven't even heard about before. The Bimini Road, also called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater road that has a very mysterious creation that nobody knows about. It has been a conundrum for a very long time, but there are also many theories to what it is. I believe that it was once a wall that was encircling an ancient city. The Bimini Road is located north of the island of Bimini. It was first discovered in 1968 by Joseph Mason Valentine. The road…

{No intro yet or conclusion}Psychological criticism is a method in which reading as dictated by Freud is applied to analyse texts, as Freud argues that the main argument to this theory is that texts such as dreams present unconscious desires of the author. Ursula K. Le. Guin is best known “for inventing fantasy worlds and uncommon experiences in such a way that readers can see themselves in the stories’ reflections,” as X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia pointed out. Le. Guin demonstrates this in “The…