Mind

Heart or Mind? Either kill someone you do not know or do nothing and get no money. You stand in your kitchen eyeing the item across the room. There on the table sits a small box with a shiny red button on the top. You continue to stare. Either push the button and receive a million dollars and kill someone or do not push it and nothing will change. The logical choice would be to not to push the button, nothing would change and no one would be hurt. On the other hand, what if you needed the money?…

Mind Reader Paisley is a regular girl, until her 7th birthday she walks into class and can hear many thoughts, but the thing is, is that they aren’t her thoughts, after a few days she realizes that she has been given a special gift. She can read minds. Years later on her 16th birthday, she is waiting at the bus stop when one her of classmates walks up. Sage makes an extremely rude comment about Paisley’s dress. “Thank you” Paisley says in a sarcastic tone. “Is there something wrong with you…

Picture a world in which you are the only mind. A world in which you are the only truly thinking being. In this world, you cannot be sure if others are having thoughts because they have a mind or if they are just simply a robot that is physically but not mentally present. This world is thought by some to exist, yet there are also many who oppose this philosophy known to many as the problem of other minds. From concepts coined by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, P.F.…

personal state of mental health. The mind has the ability to keep us bound by worry and fear, and it has the ability to set us free to thrive and excel. Our mind not only affects us personally, it affects every person in our sphere of influence. Bill Hybels suggests in Courageous Leadership, that when we function as unhealthy leaders we inflict pain to those who are closest to us (194). The greatest take-away from this week has been to ask myself: how is my mind affecting my leadership; how do I…

The Power of Creativity: “Arts and The Mind” The two part documentary, “Arts and the Mind” (Eaton, 2012) exposes the powerful effects creativity has on the human brain. The documentary introduces numerous mediums in which the arts assist in fueling happiness, stimulating stress release, and helps promote levels of understanding. These concepts are explored and brought to the surface through the creative process. The creative process discussed in this paper will include music therapy and drama…

Ideas of Science of Mind, pg. 24 Perhaps you are familiar with the technique of affirmative prayer that Ernest Holmes called a spiritual mind treatment. Perhaps you did not know that Holmes never taught a five step approach to treatment, as it is commonly taught in Science of Mind classes. That was a later suggestion by one of his colleagues, Dr. Orin Moen. The closest one can find to a step by step procedure in Holmes' writings is a passage on page 318 of the Science of Mind text that…

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Importance of Memory Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman is a worldwide famous film that makes its audience question the importance of our memories and the identity that these memories create for us. It is a film that toys with the possibility of erasing hurtful and unwanted thoughts from one’s mental record. Memories and experiences are the very things that make us who we are. Without the recollection of our past…

Since the beginning of our time together as a class, we have held many late night discussions on what geometry instruction may look like at the elementary level. I have learned about the Geometric Habits of Mind that should be present in our classrooms as we engage our students in geometric thinking. I have also had demonstrated for me what it looks like for a teacher to help his/her students move forward to higher Van Hiele levels of thought. These two systems of thinking, along with the…

The Mind at Work, written by Mike Rose is a story about day-to-day jobs that people partake in for a living, his main purpose of this story was to make people aware of the need to take notice of forms of intelligence that have not been tested through IQ tests and bring various things together like how the brain and hand can not be separated, they work dynamically. In this essay, I will go over the key points that I thought Rose wanted his readers to understand also, what I disagree with and…

Functionalism and the extended mind hypothesis Philosophy of mind, is a topic which studies the different aspects in understanding how the mind works. One of the main questions for philosophy of mind, is how the physical (in this case the brain) interacts with the mental (the mind). When addressing the questions of how the mind and body interact with each other, and in what ways the mind works in general, there are many different propositions put forward to explain the interaction. Some of…