Personal Narrative- Defining Self

For instance, our mind and body being controlled by a remote control. (Lowe, 2000, p. 21) In conclusion, keeping all the perspectives in mind, I believe I fall under the category of a substance and a property dualism due to my personal experiences and

So some thoughts have qualia. This view is also in controversy. Someone says that phenomenal aspect of understanding is totally derives from linguistic images or linguistic characters. Every language has some syntactic structure of its own. As we thought of something we complete all the sense according to the structure of our language.

Overall writing still takes me on a journey I enjoy traveling on because it is a world of the unknown, until you the writer creates it’s image. Through this course, I have gain my love for writing again. Even the simple writing assignments in this course enticed me to write in a way to bring my audience on the journey I went on while completing this assignment. Outline are my road maps in successfully completing an assignment because they help me to navigate and organize my thoughts. Although I have an outline to guide me through my thought process, grammar usage is a hindrance, which is what I wish to improve on in EN 102 by rebuilding my knowledge of grammar from scratch.

Everything, including non-living objects have its own element of individual consciousness. Dualism is a belief that “both mental and physical realms are possible, but

Contemporaries of ... ... middle of paper ... ... physical framework of reality.6 Smythies presents that everyone has a private space in addition to the shared, public version. Each individual’s personal framework intersects with the familiar dimensions while remaining distinct from them, and it provides an arena for all conscious sensations that have spatial extension or location–objects discernible by sight or touch.7 To understand Smythies’ theory see Appendix A. In conclusion one can determine a variety of theories in the evolution of consciousness. As cited earlier, consciousness is viewed as being physical or material in some cases and yet in others it is viewed as a function of the inner mind or the minds eye. These theories have even been as radical as Smythies’ philosophy that the state of consciousness is a sort of physical plane.

Self is a principal and most important part of every human being. It is what makes us unique and distinct from one another. The self is much more than a body; it heavily depends on our mind. Just as Descartes concludes the body and the mind are two distinct things. The minds takes up no space and consists of the senses and all modes of thought.

It states that everything can be defined in purely physical terms. This view has many implications, especially within the philosophy of mind, where it stands in stark contrast to dualism which puts the mind above the physical world. This focus on the philosophy of mind is, in part, due to it producing most of the objections that appear against physicalism. Within the philosophy of mind, physicalism states that all mental states can be equated to some physical state. Note that this does not necessarily imply the identity hypothesis, or the idea that a specific mental state is associated with a spe... ... middle of paper ... ...s like to experience something.

The mind is assuredly capable of thought, as Descartes states, and has intangible elements in the form of memories and personality characteristics; however, I believe that the mind is an extended entity because physical matter is required for these elements to exist. In my opinion, this means that the only logical conclusion is that the brain is the physical extensi... ... middle of paper ... ... ceases to function. Descartes makes very interesting points on the differentiation of the mind and body in Meditation on First Philosophy. His position on the body being a strictly physical entity while the mind is not is a superb point of reasoning that can be applied on many different levels with many different results. Overall, I believe that there are some areas of Descartes’ position that could be modified or expanded upon given what has been learned about the brain through modern science.

We can make all of the identity assumptions we want based on looks, form, or function but these are all useless when trying to identify a person. A Consciousness is not only the mind and soul of a person, it is also that persons own personal

Sensation is a kind of external sense which is a process of external objects convey into the mind and formed perceptions. Our sense come across sensible objects and several distinct perceptions of the objects convey into our mind through various sense organs. Thus, we have ideas of hot, cold, black, white, soft and hard, which we call them sensible qualities. This source of idea depends wholly upon our senses and gives us sensitive knowledge. On the other hand, reflection is the internal sense, which is operation of the perception of our own mind.