Self-consciousness

wishes to remain instinctively canine and supress the new consciousness by “[living] like they were supposed to” (33) but Majnoun, a thoughtful black poodle, “embraced the new way of thinking” (39). This results in Atticus persuading four other dogs into killing Majnoun, which they attempt to do but fail. The malicious intent Atticus shows towards Majnoun for simply wanting to live with the intelligence clearly shows how the new consciousness makes Atticus act violently. Along with the conflict…

Consequently, there has been a brief duration of evolutionary biology dedicated to culture and adaptation, which has created the societal groupthink of needing tools to survive; the constant necessity to overthink and cultural crutches have self-harmed the linear path tailored for the human body. This concept takes form of a catalyst through the creation of harmless and lethal diseases solely because of the human body’s inability to adapt into the culture and environment in today’s society…

that Jack is Person B by showing that a person is identified by their consciousness. Arguments have been provided to justify each person, Person A and Person B, as being Jack. Firstly, to evaluate these arguments, crucial terms need to be clarified. I will frequently use the term personal identity, a theory pioneered by philosopher John Locke in his book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, to mean identity or the person’s self i.e. who they are fundamentally. Thus, when I am referring to…

artificial intelligence have changed over this semester, focusing on the brain theory, modularity, mentalese, the Turing test and arguments against artificial intelligence. At the beginning of this course I believed that who you are as a person, your ‘self’, is in the brain. I partially…

Cultural Identity (1995). Halbwachs’ main thesis is that the memory of people can only function if it occurs in a collective context. He tries to uncover this by questioning how the past is represented not only in the individual’s consciousness but also in the collective consciousness and the mechanisms that it entails. From this he introduces the concept of collective memory which is used to illustrate the individual’s part in forming the past. Additionally, Halbwachs (1992) states that this is…

the brain itself as if it were a floor beneath the feet, and that her conscious senses were being broken, and the falling through the floor of the brain. This situates an image sets up in the last stanza when a “Plank in Reason” breaks and her aware self-drops “down, and down” until ultimately she lost all her knowledge and awareness. The floor that the speaker is standing on literally drops out from beneath her.This floor is made of planks, so it must be wood. The idea of a wooden floor…

The true capability of the mind and human consciousness is not yet known, the potential ability for cognitive thought and its power over daily lives is astounding. Though over time, a process known as mindfulness has sought to greater expand humans ability to find peace and awareness within the present. Defined as “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one 's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis” mindfulness is the…

identity would rely on physical matter, it would mean that losing an arm or leg would constitute a new identity. Locke says that by seeing a person without an arm as the same person they were with the arm, is proof that “the substance whereof personal self consisted at one time may be varied at another” (p. 15). Thus, if the physical is not what defines personal identity because of its variance through time is inconsistent with personal identity, it would be mayhap be possible to attribute…

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…

on reside in consciousness. Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be annihilated." By this, he suggests that the evidence of reality lives in one’s mind. The true nature of the world is a mystery to anyone who attempts to find it. Without a knowledge of authenticity or realness, how can one ever live a life that is purely “good”? A quality life can only come from a truly authentic life, according to Robert Pirsig. Pirsig has found that when consciousness and…