Higher consciousness

The idea of dying, and death itself is something that one normally has dread for, yet for some it is acceptable as life. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” the speaker depicts her encounter with Death as being part of a rather pleasant experience. To help shift away the negative perspective generally attributed to death, Dickinson creates an intimate connection between the subject and the speaker through the implementation and manipulation of various literary…

In Descartes’s Second Meditation, he aims to determine what “I think, therefore I am” means. He accepts that he is not solely a being who can think and doubt, but that he can also imagine and sense. While Descartes admits that everything may be a deception, he is still convinced that he can sense things and imagine. While sensory perception could be separate from reality, it is still a part of his thinking mind. Descartes begins to examine what he knows of what he is. He acknowledges that he…

the CEO run many tests until he believes the A.I. Ava has passed his test which leads onto the final exam the Turing Test. Nathan chooses one of his workers who fit the criteria to be a component in the Turing Test to learn the capabilities and consciousness of the A.I. Ava. Before he begins the test the worker Nathan has chosen to name Caleb is told that the A.I. has the brain which is a gel substance that stores memories. As the test comes close the end, both Nathan and Caleb find out that Eva…

Descartes perspective in The Official Doctrine emphasizes mostly on humans having both a body, and mind which are constructed of many different properties. These two according to the doctrine are harnessed together in life, but conceivable situations such as death can cause the body, and the mind to come apart, and the internal mind may continue to exist because the mind is essentially private. Ryle argues that Cartesian Dualism is wrong and should be rejected because he beliefs that the…

In the second meditation Descartes explains why he no longer believes in what he tried to explain in his previous meditation. He now thinks that the mind knows more than the body does. He believes that one can not trust the senses to know things because one object can present itself in many different forms. This explanation is derived from his discussion about wax, and how although when it is heated all of its physical properties change. However, even though the physical properties change, we…

The human mind is always conscious using sensation and perception to be aware of its surroundings. During every conversation we have we are making connections and we are aware of what we are doing. This is mindfulness a good example of this is when you are talking to a friend you notice her facial expression, body posture, and what she looks like etcetera. We make these connections without really thinking about it but all day and night we are constantly making connections and learning and…

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 is your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment (CITATION). Your consciousness is always shifting one moment you may be focused on this literature review, a few moments later you might be thinking about the lunch you just ate. Perception however is our recognition and interpretation of sensory information provided by our senses it also provides us on how to respond to the information (CITATION). An ‘out of body experience’ is a…

Zombie and Intellectuals All humans are either zombies or intellectuals. No in-betweens. The zombies are the malleable people that are shaped by their environment. Intellectuals are the self-willed people that are very uneasily swayed. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporates both types of individuals to pass on a message everyone can learn from. The characters in Fahrenheit 451 can be divided into two categories–zombies and intellectuals –that teach readers that intellectuals need to help…

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…