Consciousness

makes me a human organism, but I am a ‘person’ because I am a ‘thinking and intelligent being’ (Olsen, 2016), and according to Locke, ‘consciousness is inseparable from thinking’. If consciousness is inseparable from thinking and thinking links to our memories then this brings up the critical issue of identity, which is…

Introduction to Philosophy (U73100) Title of essay: Is the Mind/Brain identity theory a defensible position? In this essay I will show that the mind/brain identity theory is the only logically defensible position when it comes to the mind/body problem. To do this I will be looking at the most popular arguments and positions concerning the mind body problem. I will begin by discussing what is meant by the term 'mind body problem', the mind body problem is a philosophical issue concerning…

throughout the semester, it has to be Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat”. It’s concept and philosophy fixed itself into me and I tried applying those ideas to other articles as we went on. This article addresses one of the big questions of consciousness that tends to float around when discussing philosophy, which is what is it like to be something other than yourself? It isn’t too often that you debate on whether or not something or someone is experiencing the same feelings obtained through…

actually has three different criteria for the continuity of people: psychological continuity, meaning the person at the later time is psychologically continuous of the person at the earlier time; consciousness criteria, meaning the person at the later time and the person at the earlier time have the same consciousness; and memory criteria, meaning the person at the later time must remember the experiences of the person at the…

psychology of today’ (Wundt 1987) was the opinion of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920). Dubbed, ‘the father of experimental psychology’, for Wundt psychology is ‘concerned with man as a willing and thinking subject’ with the goal of ‘explaining human consciousness’ (Leahey). ‘While holding…

Violent delights have violent ends "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race” (Stephen Hawking). Hawking divulges that as we approach the singularity, our own creations will render us evolutionarily obsolete. Our great developments over time are the things that have allowed us to make our own tools, languages and commerce but someday instead of creating new technology our innovations may bring us to our own demise. Science fiction writer Vernor…

altitude to a higher one in search of the Self and the Atman soul within, lost between the daily struggles of life , envy, and the ego. To recognize the Atman soul within us one needs to find the barrier that stop us from experiencing infinite consciousness. Thus, the assumption that there is an “I” at work has to be demolished and it is only through meditation that such thing happens . In the three state of sleep which include the waking , the dreaming, and the dreamless sleep, one experience…

The artwork evokes the meaning of birth, death, time, human consciousness, baptism and it also links to violas psychological experience as a child. During the beginning of the film a man standing naked near the pool contemplates then decides to leap into the water, this links to when viola jumped into a lake as a child…

the neurosis without allowing the love to paralyze the treatment. Processing the love analytically, helps the patient understand the dynamics of their childhood psychical formulation and their defenses, thus change is brought about through the consciousness of the interpretation…

Both the mind and machines are complex physical substances which we may or may not ever fully understand. Nonetheless, there are large portions of the brain and machines that we are aware of, but different people have different theories explaining how they work. Over the course of this semester my views about the mind and artificial intelligence have changed. In this paper I will first go through how my views about the human mind have changed going over the brain theory of personal identity, the…