Consciousness

The beautiful quotes by Ehsan Sehgal 1. A vision is such a bridge that connects with physical reality and spiritual insight. 2. Writing and telling about oneself that, what others have said, may not execute self-promotion and not a conflict of interest too; indeed, that contributes real information. 3. A broken heart cry may touch and shake the heaven; however, not a heart of a cruel one. 4. Though, love lands blindly and silently; however, its fuel is truth and trust. Otherwise, it…

tructure of the mind. Freud’s structure of the mind. The id. This part of the mind that Freud explains as the Id refers to the unconscious part of the mind that seeks to find pleasure. Freud believes that because of the Id people act out in certain ways. If the Id is not in par with the ego and super ego it can effect behaviour. As the Id is the part of the mind that holds all basic drives in order to satisfy any needs, the Id is also explained as being impulsive. The Id does not take into…

I argue that substance dualism is true. Substance dualism claims that people and bodies are distinct. People, such as you and I, are nonphysical beings. We are connected human bodies, but we are not bodies. The reason is that (1) If we can exist without bodies, then we cannot be bodies. (2) We can exist without bodies. Therefore (3) we cannot be bodies. (1), (2) and (3) constitute the modal argument for substance dualism. The modal argument has a valid form. An argument has valid form means that…

Descartes conceive of minds as essentially immaterial, non-extended substances entirely distinct from the body. The powerful hold of Descartes’ dualistic thesis can still be felt in many corners of our intellectual framework. It seems natural to conceive of mental states and activities as purely ‘inner’ phenomena that are intimately tied to what’s going on inside the head, but only contingently related to our bodies, other people, and the world around us. In recent philosophical literature,…

Suhit Kodgule MSE: Robotics Personal Statement At this stage of robotics, there is a dissonance among two fields, two pieces that prevent from forming a cohesive whole: artificial intelligence and control theory. While AI suffers from a lack of rigorous mathematical design that can ensure robustness, control theory lacks the cognitive reasoning essential for solving problems in perception or path planning. The problem that I wish to address is this: can we develop a unifying…

Authenticity is the cause of diversity. It is the self-authorship that guides each soul in a different direction, developing individual identities. Charles Taylor, a philosopher of social sciences, claims, “The moral ideal of authenticity is that each of us find our own way of being in the world.” We find that way through undergoing life’s disappointments and achievements directly, not from handed down stories. In “The Dinosaurs”, Italo Calvino explores the concept of what it means to actively…

Have you ever wondered how your brain work? What makes it work? What makes it chose the decisions it does? Sigmund Freud wondered how the mind worked too. Psychoanalysis focuses on the subconscious desires of the individual. Psychoanalysts, such as Freud, are generally very interested in what is going on under the surface - dream interpretation, subconscious motivation, etc. Psychoanalysis school of thought is emphasized the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior. In Freud’s mind he…

1. Introduction Let us say that a phenomenal quality or concept, as I will use the terms interchangeably, is “a feature of a conscious state that is notable introspectively, ostensively, as that aspect of the state, the way it feels, appears, etc.” (Loar, 81). The knowledge argument objects to physicalism through establishing conscious experiences as having non-physical properties. In “Epiphenomenal Qualia”, Frank Jackson proposes a thought experiment in which a brilliant neuroscientist named…

According to David Foster Wallace, our default setting is the way we perceive the world and our attitude towards our everyday life. The definition of default setting by Wallace is our self-centeredness perspective that we are born with from childhood all throughout death. As he said, “There is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of.” Wallace speaks of our default setting as a negative way of looking at the world and how we shouldn't look at it like that even though it…

They watch, they see - they are the unforgettable part of our face. Our pair of unique eyes, which we use to perceive the outer world. Some people say that the eyes are the windows to a person's soul, but the windows that can open and reveal our hidden traits of character. It is enough to take a look into somebody's eyes and deeply understand her/his feelings, emotions and characteristics of temperament. As, though, every one of us has a unique picture of the universe into the irises, where eyes…