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    Are There Any Innate Ideas?

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    ‘It is an established opinion amongst men‚ that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions‚ characters‚ as it were‚ stamped upon the mind of man‚ which the soul receives in its first being‚ and brings into the world with it.’ [1] Innate ideas are those principles that are found present in the mind at birth as opposed to those which arrive and develop throughout our lives as a result of sensory experience. Whether or not these innate principles exist‚ holds for

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    Social / Biological Death Humans are bound to die inevitably. Not a single person‚ no matter how much money you have‚ or how beautiful you are‚ death is inescapable. While we all know we are eventually be deceased‚ we try to make the best of it. We all strive to make our life as comfortable as possible; surround ourselves with warm people‚ fall in love‚ start a family‚ make friends‚ and the list goes on. Majority of people lead a normal‚ satisfying happy life until their age catches up and passes

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    body. He does this by highlighting ‘the differences… lie solely in the extremely complex material… found in the living body and which is absent in the stone’. Because we have a brain we are different to the stone. It is this which determines ‘our consciousness and our mental state generally’. Armstrong emphasises the identification of mental states with physical states of the brain as ‘a perfectly intelligible one’‚ and that this is clear once we ‘achieve a correct view of the analysis of the mental

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    Can Computers Think?

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    Can Computers Think? Argument 1: No‚ thinking is too complicated. Even if we someday come to understand all the laws and principles that govern the mind‚ that doesn’t mean that we can duplicate it. Does understanding astrophysics mean that we can build a galaxy? Argument 2: I am not a machine . I’m me.I’m alive. And you’re never going to make a computer that can say that. Argument 3: The essence of humanity isn’t reason or logic or any of the other things that computers can do: it’s intuition

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    idealism and realism

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    Differences Between Idealism & Realism in the Philosophy of Education By Hobie Anthony‚ eHow Contributor ‚ last updated April 27‚ 2014 Realism and Idealism are two competing philosophies in the field of education. Dating back to ancient Greece‚ these theories influence the philosophy of education to this day. Idealism Idealism is the school of educational thought promoted by Plato in 400 B.C. Plato thought that humans could be improved from within‚ by correcting their thoughts and discovering

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    The Machine Conscience

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    create more like humans in the near future. Would we welcome them into society as ‘one of the guys ’ or would we discriminate their kind? The excerpt on Machine Consciousness by William Lycan argues the points for and against the human acceptance of an intelligent machine. To answer philosophical statements and questions on machine consciousness and it ’s human acceptance‚ Lycan introduces Harry‚ an intelligent humanoid. Harry is a machine with human features such lifelike plastic skin and the ability

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    Mindfulness

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    frequently hear the word used inappropriately. The term mindfulness derives from a ‘Pali’ language word ‘Sati’ meaning ‘to remember but as a mode of consciousness it commonly denotes presence of mind (Bodhi‚ 2000). I assume that means remember to be conscious of what’s unconscious. Brown et al‚ (2007) proffer that mindfulness is a quality of consciousness and it’s relation to the contents of unconsciousness. In the last few decades there has been an incredible influx of interest concerning mindfulness

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    Modernism in Literature

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    to another without any warning through the words of a number of different characters. It was also self-reflexive about the act of writing and the nature of literature (meta-narrative). The prevailing “stream of consciousness” writing technique‚ which focuses on a character’s consciousness and subconscious‚ became notably recurring in novels. Furthermore‚ unlike the literature of 19th century‚ there is a breaking down of the traditional beginning-middle-end linear narrative in the Modernist novel

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    The Burden of Proving Speculations By: Ian Anderson In this life you are only guaranteed one thing: that your life will come to an end. In "Life After Death: The Burden of Proof‚" Deepak Chopra has taken on the task of interpreting what you will experience when the good Lord‚ your 72 virgins‚ or His Noodly Appendage‚ The Great Spaghetti Monster calls you home. Chopra takes a very open approach to the topic so that no matter what you believe in‚ you can gain some insight on the many different takes

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    Katherine Anne Porter’s The Jilting of Granny Weatherall "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" was written by Katherine Anne Porter and first published in 1930. The story is of a women named Granny Weatherall who is on her deathbed. As she is surrounded by friends and family she remembers the life she has lived. She describes being jilted many times in her life‚ first by her husband-to-be and finally by death. The story was eventually made into a movie directed by Randa Haines. A major theme

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