Class consciousness

what the personal identity is derived from. In Locke’s Personal Identity, the personal identity stems from the consciousness itself instead of the physical body. The identity is significant to the individual, as it allows the individual to distinguish between the experiences from their mind and what may be from another individual’s. If the personal identity were not derived from consciousness and instead from the body, then the experiences, including who received them, would not matter in…

are in an altered state of consciousness? Well, you may experience that state of consciousness more than you realize. It is also known as mind alteration. Sometimes it is hard to determine whether we are in an altered state of consciousness or if it is just a mood swing. For example, if someone was a coffee drinker and regularly consumes a few cups of coffee every morning then stops cold turkey for a week. Would it then be considered that the state of consciousness was altered because the…

Altered states of conscious, as addressed in chapter 4, is defined “general name for phenomena that are different from normal waking consciousness and include mystic perceptual and sensory experiences, such as medication, hypnosis, trance, and possession” (Shiraev & Levy, 2016, p.128) From the altered states of conscious stated above, I’ve personally experienced meditation as a form of achieving tranquility and a stress-free state. Shiraev and Levy explain that meditation is a “quiet and relaxed…

Unlike Dualism, Materialism only sees the world as matter (Blackmore 20). This means that concepts such as consciousness are a direct result of physical interactions that occur within our brain. Materialism focuses on what can be seen and measured. For instance, the state of being happy is caused by a hormone, dopamine, and that the feeling of happiness is nothing…

work of the conscious mind, but the unconscious does these things as well. The adaptive unconscious is probably older than the conscious mind. The newer, conscious mind sometimes creates the illusion of control: will is sometimes an illusion. Consciousness, to use an analogy, is like Ronald Reagan: it appears to be the executive, but in fact does not have the amount of control we assume it does. So what are the specific difference between the two systems? The adaptive unconscious has multiple…

Dr. Ian Stevenson, a researcher on reincarnation, identified consciousness as a separate entity from the body that can be continued onto the afterlife and is verifiable in children. The video focuses on a case study done by Dr. Ian Stevenson’s mentee, Dr. Jim Tucker, on a little boy named Sam. The most prominent issue Dr. Jim Tucker aims to resolve in this film is the long standing belief of children fabricating their past life memories or the memories are influenced by their parent’s…

inside, and the development of, this universe. This speculation opens more questions than offers help towards the theory. The third hypothesis is known as the mind-body hypothesis and postulates that the body and the mind, more specifically the consciousness are separate. The brain is part of the body and the mind is separate from the brain the body resides in the physical world while the mind exists outside of space-time.…

does not exist in a universal form, but rather is experienced in varied manners in differing states of consciousness, with radically greater intensity perceived in a waking state than can be produced in dreams—assuming that consciousness exists in a binary, that the state enjoyed presently is the only wakeful state, and there is not a greater degree of sensation in a higher state of consciousness. Along Locke’s logic, the skeptic’s decision to refuse placing his hand in the furnace validates…

think the mind is divisible because there are mental disorders and drugs that could divide the mind. Mental disorders that can divide one’s mind would be Alzheimer’s, being bipolar, and Tourette’s syndrome. Drugs can also divide one’s mind through consciousness,…

Many may believe that they are the same person throughout all their life. However, can one really say that the person who is reading this essay right now is the same person 10 years ago? Many philosophers have wondered if one’s memory can effectively determine personal identity. Well, in what follows, I will argue that memories do not determine one’s personal identity over time. In fact, there is no enduring self that would define personal identity. One way of determining personal identity is…