Philosophy of mind

for last. I’ll also bring up different methods and tools used for hypnosis. Body I. Main point: Let’s start with the real question. What is hypnosis? Well in technical terms it’s when the mind is in a relaxed zone. When you’re in your most vulnerable state and giving your mind freedom to be shaped and formed. This is a natural human trait, everyone has it. It may take others more time to embrace that trait but it’s there. There are different forms of hypnosis that people use…

Legacy The autobiography for Horsley was not a self-revelatory exercise in truth. The format supported the construction of a mythical identity which attempted to align himself alongside those he emulated. The relationship between myth and personality is characterised by the myth being a projection of the internal identity of an individual through a visualised image (Bruner 1959: 349-350). While personal narrative expresses identity, it also creates an identity but with Horsley, it did not create…

The human nature of understanding is a worldwide concept, that has been adapted over time. These concepts of human understanding were introduced differently by philosophers. John Locke and David Hume, documente in their treatises how the human nature of understanding works. In many arguments of reasoning, Locke states that humans should be on the same level of thinking and knowledge to argue about an idea. David Hume believes that fact is a contradiction, and with contradiction you can’t argue…

Another article I found for about free will come from Psychology today. Psychologist Seth Schwartz talks about weather or not we have free will, one of the first points he states is that “ Our choices feel free, don’t they? (Seth Schwartz). He states facts on what psychologists like Freud and Skinner thought about free will. Freud talked about unconscious conflict as causes of behavior and skinner talked about environmental contingencies, but either way we look it at what they thought on free…

Normally the individual would describe the mind-body problem as the mind being non-physical and the body being physical. Mind is software in the brain's hardware. The "stuff" of mind is pure information. Information is neither matter nor energy, though it needs matter for its embodiment and energy for its communication. The mind-body problem tries to explain the relationship between mental processes and the likes of beliefs, actions, and thinking. The approaches to this problem is usually…

claim that everything that exists is made of matter. Therefore, having mental states does not indicate that there is something mental; to deny materialism is to say that there exist non-material entities. One way to deny materialism is to say that mind (or ideas/beliefs) are non-material entities. 2. Functionalism claims that mental contents are functional. The negation of it is to say that mental states are defined introspectively instead of causally/functionally. o NOTE1: Ontology is…

Past life regression is the process of going back in time to one's previous existence, while under hypnosis. Past life regression, also known as PLR fist became known in the case of Bridley Murphy in 1952. Virginia Tighe while under hypnosis reported a vision of a 19th century Irish woman named Bridley Murphy. Further investigations still have not determined if there ever was a 19th century Irish woman named Bridley Murphy. It is fact however, that Ms. Tighe as a child lived across the street…

The blank pages within the book represent that there is not meaning to everything. Each one of us should determine our own meaning out of every thing we encounter in our lives, rather than depend on another to determine it for us. In the book this is shown most vividly when Micromega questioned them about the nature of the soul. The peripatetic stated that "the soul is an actuality and rationality, in virtue of which is has the power to be what it is; as Aristotle expressly declare on page 633…

Cole Luberda PHIL 1100 04 December 12th Throughout the course of this paper, the topic of skepticism will be discussed in multiple ways. First skepticism will be introduced in John Pollock’s short article A Brain in a Vat. Then the difference between ordinary incredulity and general philosophical skepticism will be discussed. Finally, the various general philosophical skepticism will be analyzed and opinions of arguments will be discussed. John Pollock’s article A Brain in a Vat is a short…

Rousseau theorized that in the origins of humanity, there was a “State of Nature”, as he coined, and in the state humans were asocial beings that lived only for immediate needs. There were no tools, families, attachments, and most importantly, no philosophy, which is where he believes that as humans, we are not fundamentally reasonable creatures. Instead, Rousseau believes that there are actually two characteristics prior to reason: compassion/pity and an interest in self-preservation. Rousseau…