The Concept of Mind

individualism. I believe in the kind of individualism that encourages freedom of the mind at the cost of tradition and social cohesion. I am a highschool student and adolescent, so much of my time is spent perceiving peers, which allows me to maintain a unique character. It is the desire to emit a distinctive complexion and act freely that generates individualism. Through passionate beliefs and an unyielding mind, society conforms to our examples, as we ignore societal traditions and mold our…

when she left the room. The criticism this premise would receive relates to a branch of epistemology called Rationalism. This philosophy acknowledges knowledge is obtainable through one's intellectual process. Knowledge and truth are products of the mind. Rationalists presume that knowledge is a priori, meaning it comes before. They emphasize that an individual possesses innate knowledge, implying that people already have knowledge instilled in their intellect. Through this assumption,…

thinking about the relation between mind and brain, that we are either same machine as our own brain, or are independent from the brain and have the same soul attributes with our spiritual attributes. But in fact the spirit of the "self I "has its foundation of physical brain, it neither abides by the spiritual attributes, nor not just have physical attributes. The brain and mind interact and influence with each other promote people's behavior, not the brain nor the mind can explain itself.…

idea of sociological imagination. Which Mills describes as something that “enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals” (2014, 3). A concept as broad as the one presented to us by Mills is something that is open for interpretation and further development. One can elaborate that not only does Mills identify this as a sociological…

In Colman’s paper, Synchronicity and the Meaning-Making Psych, Warren Colman contrasts his view on synchronicity with Jung’s view. Carl Jung first explained the concept of synchronicity. This term can be described as the occurrence of two events that have an acausal connection, yet are meaningfully related. Both Jung and Colman attempt to portray and relate this idea of synchronicity and different ways. Jung was the first to explain and put his account of synchronicity, in which it was explained…

Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind by Tao Jiang dives into a comparative analysis between concepts related to Yogacara Buddhism and modern psychology. The book utilizes the Buddhist idea of Alayavijnana and the notion of unconscious as described by modern psychologists as the foundation for the dialogue within its pages. Jiang makes note that due to a weak analysis of Alayavijnan, a problematic nature stems out from performing comparative…

world around us and the mind, which we can not see, and is intangible. When it comes to our perceptions of other human beings we know they have bodies too, but we have no real way of knowing whether or not they really possess a mind. There is a disconnect between people and their mind and other people and their mind because their two minds cannot interact, they can only interact between the physical, what comes out of the mind and…

Accelerando and the Internet Accelerando by Charles Stross, a compendium of short stories that looks at the concept for the ever expanding world of our internet, with the overlapping of future tech and its possibilities. Accelerando is about the internet because the people abandon the physical world for a digital one and the measurements of time are no longer connected to the natural world around us. The technology from the internet causes a complete change in the lives of the humans. Because…

state of mind. It is definite that there is a certain connection between our state of being and the type of illumination around us. Gloving is an art form centered on light. Because gloving culture is so new, there has been very little study done on the entrancing effects of lightshows on an individual’s mind. Glovers while performing create…

services is to help students choose a program of interest. Given this, the goal of the model is for advisors to follow the concepts of the model to provide a successful advising session for students. In the text, the author begins by explaining the five concepts of the advising model in detail. The first and second outcome of the model is the exploration of life goals. This concept encourages academic…