The Concept of Mind

insomniac in an ordered lifestyle that he ultimately detests. The narrator in return is personified by the character Tyler Durden. Tyler ultimately isn’t a real person, but in relation to the narrator he is seen as the destructive id. Which is a concept brought on by Sigmund Freud known as the Freudian theory. This theory brings together the distinction between the unconscious and the conscious into three principles known as the id, ego and superego. Tyler leads them both through the duration of…

A wise man, going by the name Albert Einstein, once said “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”. An intellectual experience that has meant the most to me by teaching my mind how to think, and not just how to memorize and regurgitate facts and concepts, was my CO-OP experience. I completed my CO-OP placement at Deverett Law Offices in Toronto, Canada during the summer of 2015. Throughout the six weeks of my position at Deverett, I was given the amazing…

absolute, limitless, and perfect. It is a wonder to many if such an omnipotent being truly exists, or if it is nothing more than a fictitious concept. However, renowned French philosopher(and mathematician) René Descartes is confident in his belief that God exists. Descartes arrived to his conclusion on the premise of his “causal principle”, based on the twin concepts of intrinsic and representative reality; intrinsic reality being the scale of “perfection” a thing that exists has (ie: a rock is…

First she needs to work ono sounding out unfamiliar words. Based on the inventory, she tends to either skip the word all together or take the first two letters of a word and say the first word that comes to mind with the same beginning letters; whether it makes sense or not. Since she has trouble sounding out words, this interrupts her fluency, which in-effect leads to lower comprehension percentages. This is basically a cycle that will continue over and over…

did not provide the Americans with equal chances to pursue happiness. In Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi and Howard Winant elaborate on the concept of race, how it evolved, how it changed from science to politics, and how it became a way in which people use to judge others. President Barak Obama also discussed the concept of race during his campaign, in his speech “A More Perfect Union”. He emphasizes that all the citizens in the United States are considered Americans and…

Tell-Tale Heart" also incorporates the motif of death in both their works that help to exemplify the concept of Surrealism and the unconscious mind. In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the story illustrates the absurd murder of the old man. The narrator tries to justify why he killed the old man by stating, "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -very gradually -I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever" (Poe 18). Although the…

Intertextuality and Body-Mind Duality No matter how modern society might insist upon the ideas of copyright and intellectual property, no person’s work is truly his or her own. Texts ancient and new, contemporary or separated by centuries, invariably influence and build upon each other. In Ab Urbe Condita, Livy’s depiction of the Carthaginian leader Hannibal interacts with the depiction of the Roman conspirator Catiline featured in Bellum Catilinae, a work by the historian Sallust, a…

around us. Within philosophy there are two main theories that attempt to explain consciousness dualism and materialism. Dualism theorist argues that the mind and the body are two separate enmities. While materialist argue the opposite, they believe that there are only physical enmities in relations to consciousness. Ultimately consciousness is the concept that help us determined and analyze the sensations, thoughts, and experiences that occurred in our lives enabling us to form conclusions to…

The Curious Mind of Hopsin Humans possess a powerful tool that many take for granted. That powerful tool is the brain. The brain performs many actions, allowing people to think, feel, and live. The rapper Hopsin gained a massive following because of his unique way of displaying his realizations about life. Unlike the stereotypical perception of rappers, Hopsin creates songs with a purpose. In his song “Ill Mind of Hopsin Seven” (2015), he offers his perspective on religion and humanity. This…

co-eternal, matter and souls are not identical to Ishwara but on the contrary inferior and completely dependent on Ishwara. In other words, Ramanuja claims that the matter and souls are attributes of Ishwara, thus accepting in his philosophy the concept of substance and its attributes. All of the three i.e. Ishwara, Cit and Acit form an organic unity and are hierarchical. Ishwara is the highest reality followed by Cit (souls) and then Acit (matter). He further claims that the souls and matter…