Consciousness

As part of the Engaged Citizenship Common Experience (ECCE), the Speaker Series class offers the students the opportunity of participating in several events, which raise awareness on some of the issues that our society faces nowadays. This class allows students to be more involved in the community and teaches them that every voice can have an impact in a problem and every voice deserves to be heard. During the Fall semester 2016, I participated in four events: Truth Telling: Promoting…

Melodie Gibson HIST145-001Professor KuskowskiMarch 28, 2018 The Body in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise The body — both male and female, figures prominently in the correspondence between Abelard and Heloise. However, they conceptualize the body in very different ways. Abelard positions the physical body within metaphor — as something that should be shed in favor of spiritual attainment, while Heloise believes that spiritual attainment is inextricably linked to physical (perhaps more…

Living is learning. From birth to death, people live their lives gaining knowledge whether consciously or not. A child learns how to speak and walk unconsciously; youth consciously learn different ways through life as long as they have the will to live. Adults learn from mistakes and the vastness of life they see ahead. Though knowledge is immense and can be obtained in all places, people with the fear of welcoming the unknown will always be limited in the knowledge they obtain. They may only…

Chapter four: Interrupt the Pattern Interrupting the pattern is the first step to unconscious branding. The mind leads the brains to action working through a process of recognized patterns. Shifting people’s attention and behaviors, requires doing something that disrupts the norm. Perception allows humans to see with their brain. It is an ongoing effort between expectations and incoming sensory data. When thing people observe fit thier expectations, they become unconscious to, requiring no…

Ryle rejects the idea that the mind is an inner cause of behavior. He maintains and critizes the views layed forth in what he calls the “Official Doctrine.” It is an attempt to change the view on the works of Rene Descartes. Rene Descartes believed that the mind and body worked together in a dualist system. Ryle challenges that concept with what he referes to Descartes work as the ghost in the machine. He believed that the mind is separate from the body and that Descartes looked at words in…

Poe’s The Spectacles exists in stark contrast to Freud’s explanation of the meaning of uncanniness in The Uncanny. Freud attempts to illustrate the meaning of the word ‘uncanny’ through several methods. If, he reasons, he is able to come to the same conclusion as to what the word means in both instances, he has found the meaning. He describes the word as something that is both familiar and unfamiliar instantaneously. That an object to one seems so familiar but is slightly different evokes a…

Personality Case Study of Pat from Silver Linings Playbook Alanna Sampson Yorkville University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to analyze a character named Pat Solitano from the movie Silver Linings Playbook. A synopsis of Silver Linings Playbook will be provided in the introduction. Further, Pat will be discussed from psychoanalytic perspective. Finally, strengths and weaknesses of the psychoanalytic perspective will be discussed in relation to the study of Pat’s…

The following essay will be focusing on Armstrong’s idea of a casual concept and how mental states could potentially be casual concepts through various example and analysis. David. M. Armstrong starts his paper focusing on what philosophy can do to contribute to solve the mind/body problem. Before going in to Armstrong’s argument it is crucial to mention what is the mind body problem. The mind body problem is the problem of explaining how mental states, events and processes (like beliefs,…

Like how some Overwatch characters personify Haraway’s boundary breakdowns, one Overwatch character, “Genji,” personifies Haraway’s cyborg metaphor. Not only is Genji’s character design that of an actual cyborg, but his backstory also reflects Haraway’s description of the cyborg. Therefore, Genji acts as the literal representation of Haraway’s metaphor. In “A Cyborg Manifesto,” Haraway says that cyborgs “are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism.” It is important…

Legacy The autobiography for Horsley was not a self-revelatory exercise in truth. The format supported the construction of a mythical identity which attempted to align himself alongside those he emulated. The relationship between myth and personality is characterised by the myth being a projection of the internal identity of an individual through a visualised image (Bruner 1959: 349-350). While personal narrative expresses identity, it also creates an identity but with Horsley, it did not create…