The Dance of The Body without Organs My current project employs the concept of the Body w/o Organs as a model of artistic process to undermine social, scientific, and political hierarchies used in organizing our states of consciousness and embodiment. By arriving at a location of stillness, or “zero intensity” through this process of dislocating normative structures; new structures, configurations, and organizations will emerge that reflect local, emotional, or irrational consistencies. The
they separate entities, or are they somehow different aspects of the same thing? The question was posed in Nagel's 1974 essay 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' and has been somewhat revitalised recently in the guise of Chalmers's 'hard problem' of consciousness (Chalmers, 1995). Nagel argues that although we may understand the way bats use sonar to perceive their world, to fly and catch insects, we will never know what it is like to be a bat using sonar, precisely because we are not bats. Our understanding
Bullet Three: Brand Consciousness Brand Consciousness is awareness of a brand as a distinct product separate from others and the preference of this product over others. It is about upholding an image and perception. This consciousness can be either intrinsically driven or extrinsically driven. Intrinsically is when the consumer forms a need for a product in order to feels worthy, or to satisfy a need to be part the reputation or the lifestyle that a brand advertises. Extrinsically is when the pressure
Self-consciousness What makes self-consciousness interesting is because it is unique to humans. In fact, no other species are thought to possess the cognitive ability to be aware of oneself. Self-consciousness, as tested by most researchers, is an indeed a complicated matter which reasons out for various definitions to arise. Generally, self-consciousness is associated by awareness of self in terms of private thoughts, behavior, and actions. On the evolutionary context, self-consciousness is the
states? How can these conscious states be measured? In order to do so, I shall be looking at different sources and reviewing various definitions and interpretations of consciousness and distinguishing the methods approached to the study of the topic in the way it is measured. The original source of the concept of consciousness is considered to come from the English Philosopher John Locke who perceived the term to be “the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind” (Locke 1690). The challenge
The study of consciousness and mind is the subject of exploration in the branch of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and yoga with the quest of nature, function and their results. This study focuses on the nature of consciousness and mind in Samkhya, Yoga of Indian Philosophical systems and modern SKY-Yoga Philosophical Perspective of Vethathiri Maharishi. The focus is also on functional intricacies of bio-consciousness, the network functions of mind, the functional boundaries of mind, and also
Consciousness is the subjective experience of an individual on the world and the mind, that is utterly private to oneself. The defining feature of this subject is the experience that comes along with it. Although some people might explain it as just being awake that is not necessarily true. The story of Belle Riskin being conscious while going through surgery has also occurred to me. Whenever they were removing my wisdom teeth I was conscious in the middle of it but not for long it was only a few
history, there has been substantial debate over whether or not animals experience consciousness and to what extent they are sentient. Exploring the merits of this discussion involves studying different animal species varying in anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characteristics. Many observational and experimental studies on various different types of animals have reached similar conclusions about animal consciousness and sentience; they generally posit that animals live some type of a subjective
is singular. The belief in this existence of one’s self, presupposes all our experiences of consciousness. We all hold that this identity is ours alone. I speak of my experiences as experienced by me. I would seem to be talking nonsense , if I referred to myself in the plural or spoke of how the multiplicity of ‘me’s’ experienced an event. Although most will submit to the existence of levels of consciousness, we categorize those people who exhibit distinct personalities as non-ordinary. All popular
Perhaps one of the strangest mysteries of the universe is the question of how we became cognizant creatures. Being conscious is one of the bare-bone requirements of being alive, and yet, we still don't understand how it all came to be. Consciousness is the ability to think about your surroundings, be aware of yourself, and be awake. It's considered to be the essence of existence, particularly by Descartes, who so famously said, "I think, therefore, I am." It's hard to imagine that, at one point
The term ‘consciousness’ as it can be defined is the state of one being conscious or aware of one’s own being, existence, thoughts, feelings as well of his surroundings (Consciousness, 2014). It is often found that human beings tend to ignore the fact that consciousness is apparent in their existence. It has been assumed since early times that it is the brain that leads to production of consciousness in an individual. The brain in this case has largely been associated with the mind. While several
the Ego, presents an unsatisfactory account of alterity. The paper proposes that Sartre's study of imagination offers opportunities to re-examine the question of alterity and arrive at a more adequate formulation of the self's relation to the other. The paper begins by demonstrating that The Transcendence of the Ego perpetuates the Cartesian tradition of defining the self primarily in terms of self-consciousness and immanence. Next, the paper turns to Sartre's Psychology of Imagination to find another
Explaining Consciousness Provides Physicalism With Challenges That Place Limits On Scientific Knowledge, And What It Can Uncover About Consciousness Consciousness is one of those topics that are in the position of trying to understand one’s own organism with one’s own organism. The topic of consciousness is so elusive that it mirrors child hood games of trying to catch your own shadow. In the World of philosophy, discerning the truth about consciousness is no childish game. Materialist J.J.C Smart
Introduction A methodology that I believe has some chance of providing us with a better understanding of the nature of consciousness – or of how it could be that consciousness does not exist, if the eliminativists are right – is one in which we study our conception or picture of consciousness. Specifically, I am referring to our conception or picture of phenomenal consciousness – what one has in mind who, e.g., "gets" the mind-body problem, understands the inverted spectrum or absent qualia examples
Philosophy of Mind studies the minds functions, properties, consciousness, and how the body relates to the mind. One of the main arguments taking place in these studies is the mind-body problem. To understand this, a definition of the mind in relation to the brain, and consciousness is needed. So, the mind is where thoughts, ideas, and consciousness is found. Now consciousness is the ability to be aware of one 's internal self and the environment. Thus, the mind-body problem is the issue of how
Consciousness, in psychology, is a term commonly used to indicate a state of awareness of ones self and environment. In Freudian psychology, conscious behaviour largely includes cognitive processes of the ego, such as thinking, perception, and planning, as well as some aspects of the superego, such as moral conscience. Some psychologists deny the distinction between conscious and unconscious behaviour; others use the term consciousness to indicate all the activities of an individual that constitute
Consciousness is an element of human nature, which is discernibly existent. Humans experience life, and without such consciousness, it is possible to have sensations and to be aware. Rene Descartes and John Searle’s perspectives on consciousness explain how our consciousness exists, and what it actually is. Descartes view of consciousness dates back to the seventeenth century, and provides a view of consciousness when it was first philosophized about. On the other hand, Searle differs in his views
Consciousness being fundamental to our Existence as all creation emerges out of it and merges back to it. It is the eternal Cyclic of creation-sustenance–merge (sristi-sthiti-laya) triplet. It relates to Experiences that we commonly associate with ourselves such as thoughts, feelings, images, dreams, body. Derived from a Latin word “conscious” means con- together and Scio- to Know. Consciousness which is synonymous with awareness exceeds our organs, sense, brain and even our ordinary thoughts, it
Based on Professor Simone Glynn’s lectures consciousness is where impressions, dreams, memories, values and fantasies exist. Physically, It is the results of a chemical simulation of the brain; when physical things are structured in a certain way, it creates or gives rise to consciousness; emergent property. Conscious is the word of origin of consciousness. It breaks down into the prefix "con-" which means "with" in this case, and the root "sci-" which means "knowledge.” In the end, the word "conscious"
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