Consciousness

Many people have debated the mind-body problem since consciousness is regarded as a highly complex idea. Consciousness deals with a psychological and physical aspect. This interaction has led to many different beliefs and ideas (Sansom 2013). Consciousness is an individual’s understanding of his/her surroundings. He/she is aware of any thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. Consciousness remains constant, but can change throughout the day even if affected by certain stimuli (Sansom…

and decisions. This includes the way we react to these stimulants, how we think about them and how we function consciously and unconsciously. Taking a closer look could open your eyes into the world of psychology. Consequently, in psychology, consciousness is defined as our awareness of ourselves and our environment. As humans, sadly we tend to rely on substances to fulfil what we believe to be empty spots in our life. Whether it is lack of motivation to function through the day or an “easy”…

Our definitional model of consciousness states that consciousness cannot be explicitly measured, however is biologically rooted and dependent on the brain. Although consciousness is cognitive and internal, it is developed through social interactions with others as well as social reflections on those interactions. In this way consciousness is a social construction that is rooted in, and dependent on, cultural grounding and context (Lutz 1992, Sandstrom 2010). This ‘awareness of awareness’ is…

accompanied by our stream of consciousness. However, consciousness is, as Nagel said, intractable. Consciousness is not far from black and white because consciousness can be altered by different factors. Like one of the previous examples, consciousness can be altered when a person suffers from traumatic brain injuries. Although the consciousness is still present, which would suggest that it is different than the actual physical portions of the brain, the consciousness is so drastically different…

Chalmer states that the hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining the relationship between physical phenomena, such as brain processes, and experience. (Robert J. Howell and Torin Alter (2009), Scholarpedia, 4(6):4948) Thomas Nagel sees the problem as turning on the “subjectivity” of conscious mental states (1974, 1986). He argues that the facts about conscious states are inherently subjective—they can only be fully grasped from limited types of viewpoints.…

Consciousness The study of consciousness is more valuable than just the fulfilment of human interest arguments that consciousness plays a large role in can be influenced gravely if we were able to state exactly where consciousness exists and if we're able to demonstrate it. Consciousness is defined as the individual subjective experience that one has of the world either based on or involving the qualia. Qualia can be defined as are the communicable involuntary conscious mental…

Dalloway, Virginia Woolf points out that the view of life and death is rooted in individual consciousness. Some people die, their consciousness still live; some people live, their consciousness is empty, they are the walking dead. Although Clarissa has well material life, her spiritual life is empty. Therefore, the death of Septimus hints what she lacks: the necessity of recognizing individual consciousness, which makes the rebirth of mind not only in the…

Nagel gives us the idea that there is a consciousness in most living things, and that this is not reducible to physical characteristics. In “What is it like it be a bat?”, Nagel identifies that each organism has ‘something that it is like to be that organism’, otherwise known as the ‘subjective character’…

were deeply consumed by the societal and artistic pressures of the Romantic period. Poets during this time were faced with the intense pressure of meeting the Romantic ideal of the “creative genius” as they were plagued with a self-paralysing consciousness. These pressures halted their conscious creative ability and influenced their artistic vision, consequently jeopardising the quality of their work. When looking at the Poet and their art form, it is interesting to explore the intermediate…

XXVII: Identity and Diversity, John Locke begins by saying that we only have ideas of three substances which are God, finite intelligence, and bodies. John Locke then goes on to state that personal identity also has to to do with the the string of consciousness and has nothing to do with remaining the same substance or matter which is either physical or mental. John Locke states, “When we consider something as existing at a given time and place and compare it with itself existing at another…