Consciousness

when they see red for the first time’ shows that physicalism is false as it assumes that one just learned a new fact when instead developed a new type of consciousness. This is the very case of the thought experiment called ‘The Mary Argument’, which will be discussed through the paper, as it demonstrates the mind-body problem in terms of consciousness whilst disregarding physicalism. In addition to this, the Mary Argument opens a variety of hypotheses and arguments…

virtue but when cherishing it for mere intellectual pride, we fall into even greater darkness. Only when the higher consciousness is obtained one can feel united with all life, because the source of misery, the sense of diversity, is vanished. ‘He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from the Self.’ Advaita Vedanta sees non-dual consciousness as the natural state but we have to be careful not tomix the term of oneness with sameness. Objects around us…

evidence that they do have minds. Therefore, the language test does not prove that animals are non-rational creatures or that they lack consciousness as Descartes suggests. The absence of speech, Descartes reasons, can only be explained in terms of animals lacking what speech expresses—thought. From this, he concludes that animals also lack all forms of consciousness, since, for Descartes, thought is the very object of conscious…

often turned over their consciousness to these animal instincts to keep alive and win their fight. While this exchange seemed to keep them alive, it actually killed the soldiers internally. These soldiers’ mental undoing were documented after WWI in All Quiet on the Western Front, which narratives the lives of Paul Bäumer and his classmates fighting in the war. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front shows that animal instincts are not as valuable as human consciousness in the battle to…

numerous injustices and the death of many of her community due to malnutrition, unhealthy work conditions, and the way they have been sabotage allowed Rigoberta to develop a political awareness. However, what trigger her to develop a political consciousness was the exploitation and manipulation experienced by many such as ladinos and the government. The violence and the death of many compañeros and family members allowed Rigoberta to find the courage to move on to help her community. Lastly, her…

Jessica, a young girl that has been unconscious since the day she was born, was given a cure so she could finally gain consciousness. After 10 years, Jessica would finally be aware of her surroundings for the first time. In this given scenario, we question what John Locke would say about Jessica after she is conscious. In addition, we will compare and contrast Locke’s theory of knowledge from Rene Descartes’ with respect to Jessica’s knowledge. If Jessica was to become suddenly conscious and…

In William M. Manly’s work “Journey to Consciousness: The Symbolic Pattern of Camus’s L’Etranger” we find many characteristic similarities between the protagonists of these two works. Camus claimed that both of the works were not designed to reveal a “philosophie absurde” but a “sensibilité absurde”…

there is no definite way to distinguish between each of the perceptions. Many other philosophers have studied this premise, including John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes believes that the biggest key to distinguishing a dream from waking consciousness is the “absurdity”. “An absence of absurdity in waking life”, describes how one may realize a perception is a dream through a perception that is extremely abnormal, where he or she is positive that is not occurring in real life (Internet…

alive in the way that it is when it has a body to carry it around in, but, as the puppeteer reminds readers, science has yet to discover a source or reason for life and human consciousness. Because of this it is accurate to say that a person’s mind lives on long after that person is able to articulate his or her consciousness, or in other words, dies. Masamune uses the morphing of the puppeteer’s and Major Kusanagi’s ghosts to illustrate this idea. “Let’s fuse together like flowing clouds,…

mind body problem, defend the position of property dualism, support my claim through the problem of personal identity and the problem of interaction, and provide one refute using epiphenomenalism. The mind-body problem the question of how our consciousness is created through the interaction of mental and brain states. The best way to describe the interaction between mental and brain states is through property dualism. A supporting argument for property dualism is through the problem of personal…