Class consciousness

Normally the individual would describe the mind-body problem as the mind being non-physical and the body being physical. Mind is software in the brain's hardware. The "stuff" of mind is pure information. Information is neither matter nor energy, though it needs matter for its embodiment and energy for its communication. The mind-body problem tries to explain the relationship between mental processes and the likes of beliefs, actions, and thinking. The approaches to this problem is usually…

The Slate Is Not Empty: Descartes and Locke on Innate Ideas René Rene Descartes and John Locke, two of the fundamental businesslike people who framed improvement, the contrast on two or three subjects; one of them concerns whether the human thought contains intrinsic thoughts. In this article, I will shield Descartes' debate that two or three contemplations, definitely, are engraved in the psyche at parturition, and show how Locke claim against normal examinations is lacking. As showed by the…

aware of, but remains something one must constantly disavow. Repression, per Freud, can be defined in two ways: “primal repression… which consists in the psychical (ideational) representative [object-choice/fetish] being denied entrance into the consciousness,” and “repression proper, [which] affects mental derivatives of the…

Dream analysis can be beneficial in the therapeutic setting to gain insight into the psyche. However, theorists often disagree on how much emphasis should be placed on these interpretations as well as the depth of symbolism within the content of the dreams. On one side of the spectrum, according to Freud’s therapeutic framework, Psychoanalytic Theory, dreams are viewed as the “royal road to the unconscious” (Corey, p. 74). He believed that within the dream phenomenon, our ego’s defenses are…

1. Materialists have an ontological claim that everything that exists is made of matter. Therefore, having mental states does not indicate that there is something mental; to deny materialism is to say that there exist non-material entities. One way to deny materialism is to say that mind (or ideas/beliefs) are non-material entities. 2. Functionalism claims that mental contents are functional. The negation of it is to say that mental states are defined introspectively instead of…

2). What is the “mind-body problem,” described in Chapter 4, and how is this problem illustrated in Nagel’s essay on “consciousness”? For example, does Nagel find a solution to the problem? Why or why not? For example, how does he answer the question posed in the title of his essay? Finally, to what extent do you agree with him here? In “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” Thomas Nagel claims humans cannot experience what it is like to be a bat. Even through imagination humans still cannot experience…

In this paper I will argue Sam Harris's opinion on free will is not comprehensive in terms of philosophical view because he does not pay attention on the role played by the spirit level of a person cooperating with the human nervous system; because if there is no such thing as "Free will", we cannot take responsibility of our own action. Whether free will exist is a controversial question philosopher have debated on for many years. Like Sam Harris's opinion that free will is mostly derived from…

The idea of dying, and death itself is something that one normally has dread for, yet for some it is acceptable as life. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” the speaker depicts her encounter with Death as being part of a rather pleasant experience. To help shift away the negative perspective generally attributed to death, Dickinson creates an intimate connection between the subject and the speaker through the implementation and manipulation of various literary…

In Descartes’s Second Meditation, he aims to determine what “I think, therefore I am” means. He accepts that he is not solely a being who can think and doubt, but that he can also imagine and sense. While Descartes admits that everything may be a deception, he is still convinced that he can sense things and imagine. While sensory perception could be separate from reality, it is still a part of his thinking mind. Descartes begins to examine what he knows of what he is. He acknowledges that he…

the CEO run many tests until he believes the A.I. Ava has passed his test which leads onto the final exam the Turing Test. Nathan chooses one of his workers who fit the criteria to be a component in the Turing Test to learn the capabilities and consciousness of the A.I. Ava. Before he begins the test the worker Nathan has chosen to name Caleb is told that the A.I. has the brain which is a gel substance that stores memories. As the test comes close the end, both Nathan and Caleb find out that Eva…