Philosophy of mind

However, the misery is still not over. Even if the term “chronic neurological disability” had been added under the draft bill of the Act4, the procedure of “labeling” a person with disability is still not consistent with the new definition of “disability”, especially when it comes to assessment of the mental capacity. Mental capacity is a multidimensional construct and a central determinant of an individual's ability to make autonomous decisions6. Mental capacity refers to the ability through…

Is the mind distinct from the body? After confirming my conclusion and considering Strawson's predicate and numerical identity argument, no it is not, but according to Descartes, he believes it is. Descartes beliefs, known as Cartesian Dualism, is the belief that “a person’s mind and a person’s body are things of totally different sorts” (18.) Descartes states that “the mind is not a material or object, that it is separate from an individual’s body but connect with one another through common…

2). What is the “mind-body problem,” described in Chapter 4, and how is this problem illustrated in Nagel’s essay on “consciousness”? For example, does Nagel find a solution to the problem? Why or why not? For example, how does he answer the question posed in the title of his essay? Finally, to what extent do you agree with him here? In “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” Thomas Nagel claims humans cannot experience what it is like to be a bat. Even through imagination humans still cannot experience…

6b. Leibniz, could you explain your “veined block of marble” analogy to me? How is our mind like a veined block of marble? What do you mean? What are some of the examples of veins in our minds? Compare a blank piece of marble to one that is veined. If I showed you the one without veins and asked you to depict a certain shape out of this piece of marble, it would not be so easy. For example, “If the soul were like an empty page, then truths would be in us in the same way that the shape of…

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…

Obviously in front of an audience comics attempt with all their mind matter cells to lead hilarious transmissions along the axon's to the nerves that control the muscles of their fluttering lips so stable falls on ears that are not hard of hearing and persons can hear amusing things that can't be seen. Can a picture the comic paints in your brain be seen? Then again can just pictures you find actually be seen as captured impressions? I let you know this article was about something interesting…

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 “thinking things” still know it as wax. In many aspects I agree with Descartes, on the power of the mind and that the mind is the…

couldn’t protect her, so in killing the rapist he knows that they will never hurt his child or another child. So other children don't have to go through this painful event. Even other people think the same in killing the rapist so they have a peace of mind that their child is safe. Carl Lee actually did a favor to the world in taking out two rapists. Another characteristic that Carl Lee shows his Unusual sense of humor. For instance, when Carl Lee was laughing hysterically when he shot the two…

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…

Following this further, Boeker (2017) demonstrates from John Locke’s notion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, suggesting that the theory of personal identity very much exists as being classified as a combination of what he’s coined as sameness and closeness. In this case, sameness and closeness represent in a similar fashion what the soul-continuity theory initially did, that the relationship between the two and their distinctions exist as a fusion resulting from…