One counter argument that I would like to present for my position is John Locke’s metaphysical theory. According to Locke personal identity does not involve the body at all‚ the person could be classified purely by his soul. If this is true‚ then Locke suggests that the person could be transferred between multiple bodies by only his soul. In one of Locke’s essay he states that personal identity would follow the thoughts themselves‚ and not the thinking substance. Therefore‚ he believes that our identity
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First of all‚ I try to put the some problems of Aristotle’s account of hylomorphism on the relation of soul-body. Then as a solution for the problem of hylomorphism‚ I examine functionalism; however‚ when we apply functionalism in living things‚ then we have to face with inconsistencies of Aristotle on substantial changes and the problem homonoymy. In this part‚ I compare functionalist approach with Burnyeat argumentation. However‚ against the problem and contradictions which are result of the functionalism
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How much disappointment can one person fit into a year? If enough disappoints are crammed consecutively into the same year‚ then does the entire year count as one giant disappointment? My eighth grade year was my year of many disappointments that continued one after other until the entire school year felt like a huge let down. There is no year that I despise more than my junior high year‚ and that is quite a claim considering how awful middle school was for my fellow students and me. How could one
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Summary of Memory Distortion in Alien Abductee Study A summary of "Memory Distortion in People Reporting Abduction by Aliens" Introduction This is a summary of the article by Clancy et al.‚ 2002. The prevalence of alien abduction stories has been increasing in recent history (Bartholomew& Howard‚ 1998; Newman & Baumeister‚ 1997). Psychologists have more recently interpreted the stories as evidence of memory distortion (Newman & Baumeister‚ 1997). Previously published accounts of abduction
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One potential worry that one might have upon reading Daniel Dennett’s "Where Am I?‚" is about the complications that might arise from Dennett categorizing his brain‚ who he calls Yorick‚ and his body‚ who he calls Hamlet‚ as two distinct entities. One may contend that the brain and the body are in fact only one entity‚ connected much in the same way that other people’s brains and bodies seem to be connectedhowever that may bewith the exception of an unusually large temporal gap between Dennett’s
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Self awareness is knowing yourself‚ your personality and who and what you like. To be self aware is a very valuable commodity as it is can be both hard to do and is rarely done. Self awareness is about been conscious of what you are good at as well as knowing that you still have a lot to learn in‚ this also includes owning up to your mistakes‚ as hard as that can be. In life‚ and in our careers people can be competitive and to seem as though we have all the answers is a desired notion‚ but‚ to be
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| | | | |Consciousness is a being‚ the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. | |This is how Sartre begins his analysis of bad
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Considering all that I have read regarding this Star Trek Episode‚ The Measure of a Man‚ I can truly say that Piccard had a Dualism view when it came to the situation at hand with Data. He believed that data was a close to being a human as possible. When a robot is given the rank of a Lt Commander‚ I would have to question this fact. It seems a little strange to give a typical robot that kind of rank. Hasker told us that “Dualism begins by taking quite seriously the fact that human beings have
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Ted-Talk Socratic Seminar Alternate The first closed-ended question I have is: Does decision making related to psychology? The answer is definitely yes. Because in the first video David Redish said that : “Whether you are talking about neuroscience‚ psychology‚ or behavior economic‚ or robotics‚ they all come up with the same type of decision”. David Redish has studied the dynamic of brain and behavior‚ he has also published a book‚ he know this adequately. In my opinion‚ decision making is
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If intentionality is grounded on consciousness‚ we must begin with an explanation of consciousness as a non-relational property (Crane‚ 2000‚ p. 177). Chisholm (1957) suggested one such theory‚ the adverbial theory of perception. In general terms‚ adverbialism is the view that “[...Sensory qualities are not properties of something…just way of perceiving” (Bourget and Mendelovici‚ 2014‚ p. 216)‚ in other words‚ the contents of perception are “ways of sensing and perceiving” (McGilvray‚ 2001‚ p
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