Stream of consciousness

Dreams Are Our Reality Are our dreams a reality, or is our reality a dream ? We take for granted how our mind puts everything together. Certain dreams are a message to what could happen in reality. What we envision in our dreams is something everyone needs to treasure, so the world’s population has to know about the beauty of our mind’s dreams! Dreams are an extension to physical reality because they are powerful, have deep meanings that relates to real life, and cause certain events such as…

Philosophy 001 Project 3: Descartes 1) Cartesian dualism refers to the philosophical view proposed by the French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes that describes and explains the relationship of the mind and body. According to this philosophical view, the Mind and the Body are two completely separate and different substances capable of interacting with one another. Descartes asserted that “[that is, [the] mind, by which I am what I am], is entirely and truly distinct from [the] body,…

Philosophy – Connor Oulton Describe and illustrate two of Locke’s reasons for believing there are no such things as innate ideas. The definition of innate ideas are ideas that are present in the mind since birth, that are neither formed through knowledge or pulled from within our mind by experience. Therefore, it cannot be posteriori (knowledge derived from experience) but must be priori knowledge. Locke argued three parts to an idea to make it innate instead of produced from experience of the…

Assessing Foster's Substance Dualist Interactionism One of the main topics discussed in philosophy involves the mind-body problem. Simply stated, this topic deals with the nature of the relationship between the body and the mind, and seeks to figure out whether the two are related. Philosopher John Foster advocates in favor of a substance dualist interactionism. This is the idea that although the body and the mind represent different entities, a material and immaterial substance respectively…

The following is an explanation and exposure of two flaws within Al Ghazali’s argument for mind and body independence. Ghazali’s argument is that one can be aware of oneself, yet not be aware of their physical body because the mind/spirit is independent of one’s physical being. By closing one’s eyes and shutting out the physical existence from the mind, one is still able to think and be aware of onself’s existence. Since one’s mind/spirit is able to have awareness without knowing a physical…

Raskolnikov: A Freudian Psychoanalysis of the “Extraordinary Man” Raskolnikov is the type of character that Freud would have obsessed over: a man with a perceived sense of mental stability but with a realm of repressed desires — all the more reason to explore the unconscious, the uncharted realms of the human psyche. Contrary to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the dreams in Dostoevsky’s novel function as something beyond the characterization of archetypes common to multiple…

In another attempt to question the viewer’s depiction of reality and fantasy, Laurie Simmons created her photographic installation called Two Boys. She took the ideas of the immaterial, specifically focusing on the virtual, and created a version of reality that shows that life only exists inside this digital space, and all that is left of a person outside of the space is a hollow shell. About her piece, William J. Simmons, an art theory PhD candidate states,“ [it] presents not only a vision of…

Fiction allows for people to escape from reality while existing in it at the same time. Rather than entirely disregarding the realities of the world, they can reconfigure their views of reality in whatever way they see fit. In the essay “Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become,” Barbara Fredrickson discusses how people interact with each other, and in doing so, they can share their differing views. Alternatively, the therapist Leslie Bell, in the…

John Searle argues in his article “Minds, Brains, and Computers,” that computationalism is a false logic that fails to explain the mind. In doing so, Searle distinguishes between two modes of artificial intelligence(AI)—the strong and weak AI. Searle acknowledges that the weak AI hypothesis, which claims that digital computers are merely powerful tools, could potentially be correct. However, Searle objects the strong AI hypothesis because it claims that appropriately programmed computer is not…

Reflexes and reactions are two different ways that the human body responds to external or internal stimuli. Reflexes are involuntary and send a message only through the spinal cord to act on a stimuli without any intervention from the brain. For example, sneezing is a reflex as it is an attempt to rid the body of possibly harmful particles (external stimulus) from entering the body. Another example would be immediately pulling the hand away after touching a hot (external stimulus) pot. All of…