Analysis of Nagel ’s "subjective character experience ’ and scientific explanation of consciousness. In "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?"[1]‚ Thomas Nagel offers a challenge to reductionist accounts of mind by highlighting what he calls "the subjective character of experience". In this paper I will be describing what Nagel meant by the term "subjective character experience" as well as provide a breakdown of his famous example of "what it is like to be a bat?". I will also be focusing on the
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enjoy learning a lot. I feel challenged every time I try to solve a math problem and I feel great being able to solve it the right way. I have been learning math from many years now and I have had many experiences‚ good and bad‚ some of which I would like to share. One of my greatest experiences in mathematics was in 12th grade when I had recently moved from New Jersey to Illinois. My dad’s shift in his job made us move to a suburb of Chicago- Palatine. I was afraid if I would be able to catch up
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The qualities of religious experience are of great debate today hand have been of great debate for several centuries. This is because of the inability for philosophers to “explain away” the cause or source of such experiences by the way of the epistemological methods available. Furthermore‚ in his essay “the Varieties of Religious Experience”‚ William James makes the claim that religious experiences can be explained away by the way of referring their cause to the subconscious aspects of the brain
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Painful Childhood Experiences In a child’s world‚ there is always a lot of imagination. Children create worlds of their own out of their familiar surroundings‚ despite what adults tell them. The only way to let them realize the truth is to make them experience it‚ as Rosaura from "The Stolen Party" and An-mei from "Scar" do in their lives. Liliana Heker’s "The Stolen Party" and Amy Tan’s "Scar" share a similar theme. Both stories follow the perceptions of young girls. Although Tan’s "Scar" and Heker’s
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CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCES Here I am going to describe one of the best customer service experience of my life‚ it is all about the warranty claim of my previous laptop. I was living in Cyprus‚ Nicosia i purchased a dell studio 1555 laptop from Tepenter Computers (PVT). It was working properly in the 1st year but after that I found a problem‚ the brightness of its LCD was going lower day by days. So I decided for warranty claim and went Dell support centre (DSC) in Nicosia. When I reached somewhere
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Dear future tutor‚ I am writing to you to inform you about the great experience you will have as a peer tutor. During peer tutoring sessions‚ you will have the oppurtunity to help students meet the learning objectives‚ go over notes‚ review‚ and hopefully help them achieve in their learning. Peer tutoring‚ may also be a great experience for future teachers. For peer tutoring‚ assignments may contain simple questions about the class enviornment‚ content covered during
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Summary of the OJT Experience On-the-job training (OJT) is one of the best training methods because it is planned‚ organized‚ and conducted at the employee’s worksite. OJT will generally be the primary method used for broadening employee skills and increasing productivity. It is particularly appropriate for developing proficiency skills unique to an employee’s job - especially jobs that are relatively easy to learn and require locally-owned equipment and facilities. This is one method by which
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A near death experience‚ or NDE‚ can mean many different things not only mentally‚ but physically as well. An experience can occur when the heart stops and somehow comes back to life whether it be naturally or by doctors‚ or it can happen while a person is in a type of danger that is going to result in death no matter what. In addition‚ a person can also have a near death experience without the threat of impending physical death (Atman). Many factors come into having an experience as serious as this
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Concrete Experience On the first week of placement‚ I progressed from observing the hooking up of ambulatory monitors to completing a hooking up of the leads in the Holter monitor by myself. The clinical supervisor talked the patient through the monitor. I completed skin preparation of the patient’s skin before I placed on the ECG electrodes. Skin preparation is done by using a skin abrasion pad and an alcohol wipe. If the male patient had a hairy chest‚ I would ask for the patient’s consent to remove
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Name: Nur Umairah Zuraimi Class: 3 Efektif Title: My memorable experience. Throughout life I have had many memorable experiences. The memorable events could be from the worst to the best that I couldn’t explain it myself. But‚ there was this one moment where I could not get it off my mind for the very moment. The best day of my life was definitely when Mum announced that we are going to South Korea for vacation. I could not believe my ears. Could it be an April Fool? It couldn’t be‚ it wasn’t
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