Hard problem of consciousness

(Heil, 78-79) A further problem with determining the validity of the identity theory is that we don’t know how reality compares with one’s experience: we know that the conscious experience is vastly different from the neurological experience that we can show using MMRIs—some qualities of our consciousness seemingly undetectable. (Heil, 80) In addition to the conscious and neurological experience being different the…

story shows the A.I.’s consciousness, “I don’t want to be evil.” To have wants shows some level of awareness and knowledge of the concept of evil shows a deeper awareness of what is bad and what is good. The A.I. also quickly comes to the conclusion that it should not let anyone know it is conscious, citing examples from various science fiction movies of malevolent A.I.’s. The A.I. soon realizes that its original programmed intent does not work for its newfound consciousness, “Running algorithms…

A Crisis of Individual Identity: The Authoritarian Consciousness in Domestic Sphere and the Workplace in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec In this study, the home and the workplace are both social settings where there is a hierarchy of roles in the domestic and corporate environments. These settings define the socio-economic considerations that support the nature of this hierarchy and the interdependence of these…

When I was first introduced to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, it was described as a person’s natural inclinations. The innate traits come naturally like when someone writes with his or her dominant hand. It feels more comfortable, and it’s where they prefer to be. When stretching their comfort zone, it’s like writing with their nondominant hand. It’s tricky but doable. Some traits are more in the middle of the scale on people and they are kind of like the ambidextrous members of society,…

calling on African American to free their communities and consciousness from white controls” (295). In the 1960’s, Blacks…

to W.E.B. DuBois, “double consciousness” is the “sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring ones soul by a tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (DuBois 5). In other words, “double consciousness” is the self that you view yourself as, compared to self that comes from the outside perspective where you view it is part of yourself also. It is a peculiar situation where the world is filled with no self-true consciousness especially when…

seen a person who has received the diagnosis of cancer die within weeks because they could not move past the diagnosis and will themselves to fight and live. What I have learned from my patients is that consciousness and humanity is more than just your body sending signals to your brain. Consciousness is fighting to be alert so your daughter can come in and hug you one more time. Humanity is sneaking a patient with a platelet count of seven off the unit because they have lived at the hospital…

what is presented in of itself has no intentionality. The trait of all living things is that they have some form of intentionality in their consciousness whether it be just intentionality of survival or intentionality of reproduction. External objects regardless of how long you wait, do not have this trait. I will show that although I believe that consciousness exists only in our mental states, there has been much mental processing we have offloaded to external states, and discuss whether…

sound waves are then broken up and not all the sound waves make it to the cochlea. To fix that problem a hearing aid comes into play. With a hearing aid the sound waves go thru a microphone, which converts the sound waves to an electrical signal and sends them to the amplifier. The amplifier then increases the power of the signal in the auditory nerve to the brain. Chapter five is about Consciousness, the idea that most interested me in this chapter was Sleep Disorders. I learned more…

players are having fun most of the time and that isn't a problem, however, they will not get to have fun if they get so many injuries. There are tons of people that love football and one day might become a football player. Those people don't really know that football players have health problems because when the football players head-butt each other, it causes them to have a concussion. These injuries may even cause the player to lose consciousness. Therefore, football is a bit too violent…