Consciousness

Final Paper: David Lewis Prompt In his work, Mad Pain and Martian Pain, David Lewis argues that we can apprehend the concept of pain by applying an ambiguous, yet effective Materialist Mixed Theory of mind. The Mixed Theory of mind includes an Identity Theory and a Functionalist Theory—which Lewis must necessarily accept in order to have his theory of pain. Phenomenologists argue that Lewis fails to account for the experience of pain—the what it is like to be in pain and to feel pain. I will…

Each individual is entitled to their own personal and private thoughts however is it possible that those thoughts in the mind can be mistaken? Many philosophers have supported the claim that each person is the only one who fully understands what is going on inside their own minds however, there are ways in which this can be counter argued. In specific situations, the mind and those thoughts that roam inside can be mistaken and even deceiving to the individual who is directly perceiving them…

For this writing assignment I was instructed to watch the video “The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain.” The video, “The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain,” was about a series of illusions that fool people on an everyday basis. The video discusses our everyday routines that we have become unaware of because we do not realize our brain is doing most of the work. It goes in-depth, providing information about the different types of mind tricks that humans do not realize and are…

In James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” as well as Greg Egan’s “Learning To Be Me,” the ways in which identity can change along with the how bodies are perceived or not are emphasized. The contrast between the two stories lies in their differences as sub-genres, as Tiptree writes about feminist science fiction and Egan focuses on cyberpunk. Even the ways in which the two main characters are developed in relation to their bodies seem completely unrelated, and yet by comparing them,…

The question whether a person’s character is shaped solely by inherited traits or also by experiences and social interactions is the central topic of the ongoing nature vs. nurture debate amongst psychologists and sociologists. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays various kinds of social interactions as the protagonist Amory Blaine meets many different people throughout his life. While he crosses paths with some people without any repercussions, other people continue to have a…

Throughout The Canterbury Tales, there is a distinct distance between personal identity and the general statement “alle”. “Alle” means totally, or all together (University of Michigan); it implies a universal agreement without hesitation. The term is used frequently within the collection and functions as yet another aspect that distances individuals from companies and different ranks. In “The Miller’s Prologue”, the narrator reflects on the Miller’s words and character: “And therfore every…

Historical knowledge tends to objectivity, the absence of which can cast doubt on the fact that truth is available to historical knowledge. In the theory of knowledge, the subject and the object considered as two completely contradictory sides. True knowledge means the correspondence of the subject's knowledge about the object, while the object belongs to the material, physical world. However, the purpose of knowledge can be ideal - for example, in case of the history of thought, philosophy, or…

COURSE -PERSPECTIVES OF KNOWLEDGE NAME - DIVYANSHU SHARMA ROLL NUMBER – 2013034 JOURNAL ON THE MIND BODY PROBLEM EMPHASISING ON DESCARTES Descartes believed that a person or human being such as you or me is a two-part composite, of a mind and a body or to put it simple a person is just the mind but has a body. And according to him, the mind is an entirely immaterial, nonphysical thing or simply a collection of information. What unites the mind with our body is that it causally…

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian doctor who developed a therapeutic method for analysing the unconscious, argued “that desire was the root of human civilisation” (D’alleva 2005: 89). Freud’s work revolutionised the way people thought about desire, the workings of the mind, basic human interactions and the human self. He stated humans must work to survive thus individuals repress some of their tendencies of pleasure and gratification. For the individual, managing repressed desires is difficult; the…

Prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre once wrote that the tendency to reduce space ‘to parcels, to images, to facades that are made to be seen and to be seen from’, is a tendency that degrades the very notion of it. Architecture inhabits space, the concept of which, albeit difficult to grasp is made possible through the interpretations of those who populate it. It is even possible to say that there are as many places as people in a space. This concept is central to the discourse of…