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    Descartes perspective in The Official Doctrine emphasizes mostly on humans having both a body, and mind which are constructed of many different properties. These two according to the doctrine are harnessed together in life, but conceivable situations such as death can cause the body, and the mind to come apart, and the internal mind may continue to exist because the mind is essentially private. Ryle argues that Cartesian Dualism is wrong and should be rejected because he beliefs that the…

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    In the second meditation Descartes explains why he no longer believes in what he tried to explain in his previous meditation. He now thinks that the mind knows more than the body does. He believes that one can not trust the senses to know things because one object can present itself in many different forms. This explanation is derived from his discussion about wax, and how although when it is heated all of its physical properties change. However, even though the physical properties change, we…

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    The human mind is always conscious using sensation and perception to be aware of its surroundings. During every conversation we have we are making connections and we are aware of what we are doing. This is mindfulness a good example of this is when you are talking to a friend you notice her facial expression, body posture, and what she looks like etcetera. We make these connections without really thinking about it but all day and night we are constantly making connections and learning and…

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    Chalmer states that the hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining the relationship between physical phenomena, such as brain processes, and experience. (Robert J. Howell and Torin Alter (2009), Scholarpedia, 4(6):4948) Thomas Nagel sees the problem as turning on the “subjectivity” of conscious mental states (1974, 1986). He argues that the facts about conscious states are inherently subjective—they can only be fully grasped from limited types of viewpoints.…

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    Consciousness is your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment (CITATION). Your consciousness is always shifting one moment you may be focused on this literature review, a few moments later you might be thinking about the lunch you just ate. Perception however is our recognition and interpretation of sensory information provided by our senses it also provides us on how to respond to the information (CITATION). An ‘out of body experience’ is a…

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    Zombie and Intellectuals All humans are either zombies or intellectuals. No in-betweens. The zombies are the malleable people that are shaped by their environment. Intellectuals are the self-willed people that are very uneasily swayed. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporates both types of individuals to pass on a message everyone can learn from. The characters in Fahrenheit 451 can be divided into two categories–zombies and intellectuals –that teach readers that intellectuals need to help…

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    Consciousness The study of consciousness is more valuable than just the fulfilment of human interest arguments that consciousness plays a large role in can be influenced gravely if we were able to state exactly where consciousness exists and if we're able to demonstrate it. Consciousness is defined as the individual subjective experience that one has of the world either based on or involving the qualia. Qualia can be defined as are the communicable involuntary conscious mental…

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    In 1962, Simon Olshansky, a counselor, coined the term “chronic sorrow” after listening to the experiences of parents with profoundly disabled children. He attempted to describe the widespread psychological response parents suffered (Peterson & Bredow, 2013). The middle-range theory of chronic sorrow expands and elaborates on the work of Olshansky. Description of the Theory The Theory of Chronic Sorrow is a middle-range theory developed by Georgene Eakes, Mary Burke, and Margaret Hainsworth in…

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    “Writing Assignment #3” The unconscious is the part of our minds where certain emotions or memories are inaccessible, thus making the person unaware of these hidden emotions and memories. They usually reside in the unconscious part of our minds due to the act of repression. Repression is the process in which the mind filters as well as suppresses memories, thoughts, desires, and other emotions as a defense mechanism. Therefore these thoughts, memories, etc. become part of unconscious mind.…

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    In “Hooked on a Myth”, Victoria Braithwaite says Are Nonhuman animals Conscious? I agree with her argument that fish feel pain and that fish are conscious, but I feel like she could’ve taken the argument a lot further than what she did. She talks about how fish feel pain and she uses the evidence of how they injected bee venom under the skin of the trout . When the fish started to feel the bee venom their gills beat faster, they rub the affected area on the walls of their tank, and lose…

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