Higher consciousness

Aha Moment Life as we know it is a fragile ecosystem hanging in the balance between the “Aha!” moments of greats—rejecting old ideas and accepting new ones. “Eureka Hunt” by Jonah Lehrer delves into the science behind epiphanies, and suggests that we relax and take breaks to induce them. I find this information useful for not only Art 221, but as a student at Samford University above all. To begin, Lehrer addresses the mystery of epiphanies. Society largely deems the left half of the brain as…

Theories about the human personality have been brought up since the early ages of psychology. Weather it is the theory of adjusting the way we act by social settings from the social cognitive theory, to the more calm and passive humanistic theory. Discussing advantages and disadvantages of each theory is key to identifying the most reliable and well thought out way of assessing someone’s personality. With each category having its own place in psychology the advantages are simplicity and…

Strict dualism was developed by René Descartes. This dualism represents the mental inferences between a person in which the mind and body are not the same. I think that in a way, these two co-exist with each other but work indifferently. there are different sub-components which are materialism, epiphenomenalism, idealism, occasionalism, and double-aspect theory. Descartes thought that the mind was the center control center of the entire body. That the mind is in control over the body but…

refers to this as the apperception other person. In that the experience of the other person which can never be fully known, is still perceived by you. Using the method we can apply phenomenological reduction to it. When looking at objects in our consciousness we perceive objects in a certain way. These objects might never appear to us whole but we are able to see that they are. We are able to phenomenologically reduce these objects in our…

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…