In the Julia North thought experiment‚ Julia North’s brain is transplanted into a different body. The underlying question arising from this case is does Julia North continue to exist after the operation? In this paper I will explore how the same-brain view‚ the bodily view‚ and the psychological linkage view would answer this question and provide evidence as to why I believe that the psychological linkage view in general and the indirect memory view in particular provide the most compelling answer
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backpack tour. I’ve been asked‚ why do you want to travel? Well‚ I told him that I want to learn new things. Things like what? Things where our own country and home doesn’t have. What do you mean by that? Any difference of our country and other countries? Well‚ of course there are. At least I want to see how the people lives at other countries. I want to see what our differences are‚ and what our similarities are as well. I can know how does their country work and operate. Travelling is also‚ a way to relieve
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toward the Native Americans are still present. Forced assimilation is when someone is not given a choice about adopting another culture. This type of assimilation is evident in Joe Suina’s short story‚ And Then I went to School. The narrator‚ a young child who attended a “white” school‚ faced obstacles like bullying and discrimination
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In the last school holidays‚ my family and I return village to celebrate the up coming days with relatives. My village is located in Penang. I think this year’s election is more fun than the previous years because of this feast‚ there will be a meaningful day for my aunt‚ the marriage ceremony. Men who successfully captured the hearts of my aunt come from Alor Gajah‚ Perak. Me‚ my family and relatives happy because my aunt already a men’s wife. Because of the wedding‚ I and relatives can gather together
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girlfriend‚ you could focus on your studies well because your full attention is on the lesson and not on the text of your boyfriend. Your mind only listens on what you’re reading. Thus‚ your attention is only focused on the lesson. Second‚ as students‚ we should manage our time wisely. Dividing our 24 hours within our family‚ peers‚ classmates‚ school and self is such a hard chore especially if you have different appointments on various places at the same time. You must choose the most important thing
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“Difficult and easy support each other.” When a person is difficult to please and that person gets married to someone who is easy to please‚ the difficult one will always find something wrong with the other while the easy one will always be happy with what the other already possesses. To have a sense of one term‚ one must first understand the other. In the excerpt‚ the lines‚ “Long and short define each other‚” and “High and low depend on each other‚” are great examples. For something to seem long‚
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at the world and how you see God; a worldview is a set of beliefs that directs the way you act. To determine your worldview‚ you must ask yourself a few questions. Some of these questions include: Who is God? Where did I come from? Why do I exist? What is my purpose in life? Answers in Genesis defines a worldview as “the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. A worldview is a collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group.”[1] To make
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In his essay about Cézanne‚ Walser was precise as always and he leads us to an understanding of the content of the work by the painter and the painter’s intention. In order to know what exactly Walser meant when he wrote in his essay‚ “Thoughts on Cézanne‚” “The man I’m now speaking of gazed‚ for instance‚ at these fruits‚ which are as ordinary as they are remarkable‚ for a long time‚ he pondered their look‚ the skin stretched taut around them‚ the strange repose of their being‚ their laughing‚ glowing
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was an optimistic philosopher who believed the world was perfect. Pangloss had never observed the world through his senses until he started over as a tramp. Pangloss always told Candide and Cunégonde‚ “everything is for the best”(6)‚ which they thought repeatedly as their lives went on. Cunégonde expresses her desperation to Candide‚ “Pangloss deceived me cruelly when he told me that all was well with the world”(19). She started to reassess Pangloss’ optimism critically because she suffers from
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Cursive writing seems to hold a sentimental value to many people‚ but should sentimental value be the determining factor of whether or not something should be taught in schools? Personally‚ I don’t think so. Technology is expanding more rapidly now than it ever has before‚ and along with that comes more things to learn. Things that are critical for children to know in order to become a valid‚ functioning part of our society. In today’s day and age‚ learning to write in cursive just isn’t one of
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