Higher consciousness

inside, and the development of, this universe. This speculation opens more questions than offers help towards the theory. The third hypothesis is known as the mind-body hypothesis and postulates that the body and the mind, more specifically the consciousness are separate. The brain is part of the body and the mind is separate from the brain the body resides in the physical world while the mind exists outside of space-time.…

Many may believe that they are the same person throughout all their life. However, can one really say that the person who is reading this essay right now is the same person 10 years ago? Many philosophers have wondered if one’s memory can effectively determine personal identity. Well, in what follows, I will argue that memories do not determine one’s personal identity over time. In fact, there is no enduring self that would define personal identity. One way of determining personal identity is…

I have had a near death experience, but I have also heard many stories about near death. Death comes to anybody and everybody, no matter the time. When your death chance may come nobody knows when and where it will happen. Throughout the stories I have heard, nobody knows that it is coming until it's too late. Everybody has said throughout their experiences that after they almost died their priorities change. When I was in a car accident my priorities changed such as I used to only think…

On the question whether machines can think, Descartes and Turing are in Strong disagreement. Evaluate the arguments on either side. Does Searle's 'Chinese Room' argument help resolve the debate? The question of the potential of thinking machines has both been addressed by Descartes and Turing. At the heart of the debate, the question of language and how thought can be constructed, remains the major point of difference. The essay will look at Turing’s argument for machines thinking and…

Evolution of Consciousness” that consciousness as “an evolutionary phenomenon embedded within an evolutionary universe” (322). Such a statement spurs the thought that during all stages of Homo sapiens evolution, consciousness will follow. Homo sapiens in 2001: A Space Odyssey are presented in three different stages of evolution: man apes, modern day humanity, and sentient beings without a need for flesh. Emergence of consciousness led to the discovery of tools, while the growth of consciousness…

them – in this case consciousness (Shoemaker D, 2016). In this essay I will argue that Locke’s original memory criterion is the correct account of personal identity. To do this I will refer to the merits of Locke’s criterion as well as to various objections with two main objections being that identity seems to persist through loss of memory…

Descartes’ in the consciousness of the individual: “That it [the memory] loses the idea quite, and so far it produces perfect ignorance. For since we can know nothing further, than we have an idea of it, when this is gone, we are in perfect ignorance” (Locke 62). In this case, the mind cannot be a perfect reflection of God’s causality, since God is unable to “forget” what he has created. Therefore, the human mind is an imperfect method for resolving doubt, since the consciousness of a human…

Locke discusses the main factor that suggests the sameness of personal identity – consciousness, and explains various scenarios in which personal identity remains the same, as well as circumstances when it does not. Despite Locke’s extensive theories, the inconsistencies with pre-existing theories and confusion about whether consciousness alone is a strong…

x Rene Descartes and John Locke, both seventeenth century philosophers, have their own individual views and opinions pertaining to particular subjects such as the origin of ideas. Both of these philosophers attempt to find answers to many of the same questions in epistemology as well as metaphysics. While Descartes is a rationalist, Locke is an imperialist; his ideas come from experience. Locke and Descartes have differing views on various multiple subjects, but both philosophers support…

Late at night when I’m lying in bed, I think deep into how the world actually works. Everyone seems so blind to the truth now that the media has taken control of people’s minds. It is very difficult to think on our own when there are other outlets giving false information and disbeliefs. The matrix is a machine that makes the mind of a human blind to what’s really around. I try to understand what is going on when it comes down to our society in the United States, how the human body functions,…