False consciousness

Developing an Understanding of Kuru As New Guinea became westernized by the exploration of Australian colonial powers, it was soon discovered among the native tribes there existed cannibalism, as well as sorcery, and a disease linked by the two, a disease and magic named Kuru. When it was first discovered, it was first assumed merely to be a mental issue, which produced a physical ailment in suffering the psychological issue. Though, as doctors realized it was an actual disease, it became…

How much of our life do we really have control over? This topic is covered in The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain which contemplates just how much humans are actually aware of and how much we genuinely decide. The video goes into an in-depth analysis of the automatic brain. It shows just how complicated the many processes the human brain goes through each day, in fact at every second. Humans are immensely unaware of how powerful and controlling the automatic brain is. This part of our…

The philosophical perspective regarding human nature that I chose to explain was Holism. The theory states that parts of a whole are interconnected, in such a way that they cannot exist independently of the whole. The Holistic approach borrows ideals from dualism and materialism, but branches from each quite a bit. A Holist believes that a person is mind and body, but that they are not completely separate entities. The mind and body act together in all actions and aspects of life, and every…

There is a specific type of consciousness that Bayne is very interested in, phenomenal consciousness (Bayne 2008, 4). Phenomenal consciousness uses the understanding of phenomenal unity, what it is like to be in the conscious state. Behavioral disunity does not equal phenomenal disunity, but it is on the path to phenomenal disunity. Bayne argues that split-brain consciousness was often restricted, in the experiments, to the language utilizing left hemisphere…

All creatures have a material appearance, namely body, but is does not fellows that it all have a mind. The body allows us to perceived knowledge through five senses, which includes touching, seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling. The mind allows us to perceive knowledge through reasoning, including thinking, judging, understanding. Today, Modern science has been able to use the language of biomechanics to explain the structure and the interaction of the body. However, our mind is not yet able…

Is There a Correct Way To Live Life? How do Gil Fronsdal’s “A Perfect Balance,” Dzigar Kongtrul’s “Old Relationships, New Possibilities,” and Eckhart Tolle’s “You Are Not Your Mind” relate with the way we treat the people we love? In what ways do the articles agree and disagree on meeting enlightenment? What do they say about how people should go about life to conquer our goals? Focusing too much on family and friends is a person’s natural instinct, especially when all people do is try and…

The concept of this mind/body problem has prompted many philosophers to create solutions, or drawn them to determine the problem does not exist. To this day, as artificial intelligence become increasingly common, and the question of how the mind relates to the body or if it even exists becomes pertinent in relation to technology, no consensus exists. Science fiction, such as the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Measure of a Man”, often attempts to tackle this problem through their…

Buddhism. The simple difference between them is that Atman is true self, and Anatman is no-self. For most Christens Atman would be more easily understood. With Atman, it is neither mind nor body but pure consciousness. If everything is striped from the human body, it is left with just a pure consciousness or you can kind of think of it as a “soul”. Also, there is the Myself and MySelf with an uppercase…

Graphology is the study of the brains expression through an individuals handwriting. It is often referred to as a pseudoscience as it does not have the distingushible aspects of a legitimate science such as using observation and experimentation to try and prove it wrong also to ensure that the researchers do not only try and find evidence to prove it. Meanwhile, Pseudoscience’s tend to ignore conflicting evidence. The scientific paper titled “ Does Graphology Predict Personality and…

Lao tzu was a native of Ch’u which is a Honan Province. He lived in the fourth century B.C. although it is debated depending of dates of his and Confucius’ writings. He was nearly twenty years older than Confucius, who supposedly visited him once to discuss philosophy with him even though their teachings were a bit contrary. Lao tzu is known to have written the Tao Te Ching, what is seen as a sort of bible of Taoism. The book consists of slightly more than 5000 Chinese characters, and it is…