Stream of consciousness

“Never one person or groups of people exclusively used more of their left side of the brain or more of the right side” was concluded by Dr. Gayatri Devi, the professor of neurology at New York (“Left brain right brain theory”). This is a reference to the myth that people think they are more dominant on their left side of their brain and vice versa. The split-brain theory, better known as the left-brain, right-brain theory, is a theory that distinguishes people as “left brained” or “right…

there is no definite way to distinguish between each of the perceptions. Many other philosophers have studied this premise, including John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Thomas Hobbes believes that the biggest key to distinguishing a dream from waking consciousness is the “absurdity”. “An absence of absurdity in waking life”, describes how one may realize a perception is a dream through a perception that is extremely abnormal, where he or she is positive that is not occurring in real life (Internet…

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…

What really is conspicuous consumption? And does everyone in the world do it? The article we read about Veblen and Bourdieu and their views of conspicuous consumption states, “Veblen argues that consumers from all social classes, even the ambitious middle class, are not necessarily consciously trying to conspicuously consume” (p. 108, paragraph 1). What is conspicuous consumption though? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines conspicuous consumption: “the act or practice of spending money on…

Are mind and body essentially different? [Descartes, Conway, Cavendish] In 17th century philosophy, the mind-body issue surfaced many circulating viewpoints as to what the real relationship between the mind and the physical world is. This continuing dilemma brings up questions that have ongoing answers regarding if the mind and body are two substances or not, and how exactly the mind and body are related to each other. I am choosing to take a monist standpoint in this paper, expressing that…

At first glance it seems obvious that humans have free will. For example, if someone chooses chocolate ice cream over vanilla, it seems intuitive that they made that choice. Determinists, however, raise doubt into whether free will exists. A determinist believes that everything that happens in the universe is predetermined and can 't be changed. According to the determinist, an omniscient being would be able to predict everything that will ever happen just from the current state of the universe.…

I believe that these books have taught me a lot about my life and why I’ve made some of the decisions that have had an impact on me. The first book was very hard to read at first. I struggled quite a bit trying to comprehend it, but once I figured out Wegner’s style of writing; I started to understand better. The second book was a lot easier to read, I honestly enjoyed both books because they gave me a different view on life and how things work. My mother and father are both in my life, but my…

In ten minutes, what can you actually do? Actually very little, but when multiplied day by day, the significance of these ten minutes suddenly grows, becoming very influential. Entering the meditations, I was unsure of where my inner thoughts would take me. Reflecting now, it seems that I have actually traveled quite far. After ten days of meditating for ten uninterrupted minutes, I have begun to anticipate my departure from the rest of the world, finding solace in my own monologue. This retreat…

Idealism is a theory advocated by the philosopher George Berkely who arged for the rejection of matter. Berkeley believed that the reality was just a series of mental ideas, he explained it as Specific to be ia to be perceived there was nothing that existed in a physical world external to our minds. All of reality is just mental ideas that we perceive. That’s quite radical theory was led Berkeley into believing that. Firstly, Berkeley rejects he direct realist approach. This is that we directly…

Prague School and Danish Structuralism When we are talking about linguistic there will be 3 schools of linguistic; Structuralism, Functionalism and Behaviorism. Structuralism is the first school in psychology. Is the study of elements of consciousness, and focused on breaking down mental process into the most basic components. Structuralism is one of many branches in linguistic that understanding language through identifying and determining the structure and every part of it…