Higher consciousness

The Brain’s Limitless Capacity One of humankind's biggest mysteries is from within: the mind. How did humans gain consciousness? How can humans perceive time? The mind is capable of greater endeavors than the menial tasks it performs every day. During the waking hours, the mind is constrained by the laws of reality. By night, our minds are free. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, Peyton Peyton irrationally struggles for hope, moments before his execution. Peyton’s body is…

In “Mourning and Melancholia,” Sigmund Freud suggests that when an object of love is lost, the ego recreates an image of the loved one inside the self. This image, or “shadow,” is not fully integrated into the personality, thereby enabling the ego to split off. In this “ego splitting,” a part of the ego sits in judgment on the rest of the ego, criticizing it, attacking it. Suicide is the ultimate expression of this dynamic; because one cannot kill this person, one “kills” them by destroying the…

‘A human being is spirit. But what is the spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relations relating itself to itself or is the relations relating itself to itself in the relation.’ (Kierkegaards, The Sickness Unto Death P.13) Throughout this essay we will discuss in depth Kierkegaards two deep understandings of ‘The Self and Despair’. The self is a means of trying to understand itself in the world today. This notion may…

The Human Story Have you ever considered the way your brain perceives reality? Pi Patel sure has. He has questioned reality so much that he is not even sure what reality truly is anymore. However as the reader it is up to us to decipher and decide what the true story is. The true story is in fact the second story that Pi tells; the human story. The human story is the true story because it is much more feasible than the animal story, it is much more realistic than the human story, and the…

The third foundation is mindfulness of mind or consciousness. The "mind" in this foundation is called citta. This is a different mind from the one that thinks thoughts or makes judgments. Citta is more like consciousness or awareness.Citta is sometimes translated "heart-mind," because it has an emotive quality. It is a consciousness or awareness that is not made up of ideas. However, neither is it the pure awareness that is the fifth skandha. Another way of thinking of this foundation is…

The definition of telepathy is communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception. Some people who have telepic powers are Nandana Unnilerishnan, Michel Berg, Alejandro Riera. Michel Berg and Alejandro Riera had achieved telepathy once and talked to each other on accident. Nandana had got telepathy from autism, she was able to read her mother’s mind and she passed ESP test that was telepathically communicated to her. Some facts about telepathy is animals can have…

In the debate between idealism and materialism, the ultimate question is, mind over matter or matter over mind? Materialism and Idealism are the two contrary doctrines in philosophy. According to the materialistic view, the world is entirely mind-independent, composed only of physical objects and physical interactions. On the contrary, Idealism is the view that mind-independent physical objects exist and can be experienced through the senses other than those which detect based upon physical…

Hume and Descartes: State of Existence Hume believes in an existence that is created through a physical existence that experiences the world through the human senses. These perceptions are then categorized into impressions and ideas which are then used to make sense of the world. Descartes, however, believes in a singular existence of a thinking thing, that is separate from a physical body, of which its existence he remains unsure of. In this essay, I will be analyzing Hume’s and Descartes’…

Larry Keesler Dr. Dana McGraw ENGL 1010-L03 September 13,2017 There Is a Reason Behind Everything The truism “everything happens for a reason” is more than just a cliché. What is a cliché? A cliché is a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. However, this cliché has a deeper meaning. What exactly does that mean? It has a vast meaning more so than most people realize. Everything we do happens for a reason. Good, bad, or otherwise it is still a reason.…

Seemingly unrelated, Blaise Pascal’s Wager and Michael Shadlen and William Newsome’s Motion perception: Seeing and deciding are, in actuality, complementary and tie together the disciplines of philosophy and cognitive neuroscience in a thought-provoking way. In this paper, I discuss how the integration of Pascal’s Wager and Shadlen and Newsome’s research in the lateral parietal region (LIP) can reveal unique insights that are inaccessible when reviewing the texts independently. Specifically, I…