Jean Paul Sartre Sartre’s Life Jean-Paul Charles-Aymard Sartre was born on June 21‚ 1905‚ in Paris‚ France. His father‚ Jean-Baptiste Sartre‚ was an officer in the French Navy. His mother‚ Anne-Marie Schweitzer‚ was the cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Sartre was one year old when his father died. He was raised in Meudon‚ at the home of his tough grandfather Charles Schweitzer‚ a high school professor. His early education included music‚ mathematic‚ and classical literature
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Quan‚ 1 William Quan Matthew Piper MCWP 50 Sec 003 Consciousness: 823616/7 Annotated Bibliography: Draft 2 Due 1/27/15 Works Cited Question & Purpose: My overall question is whether Artificial Intelligence could evolve into an Artificial Consciousness‚ however‚ my in depth interests are whether cyborgs‚ half human‚ half machine‚ are possible in the next decade. Aside from the philosophical and moral issues that are brought up‚ and a slight tangent‚ I just want to know if it is possible based on Moore
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is a reflection of these internal conflicts (Personality and Research‚ Gordon L Flett) and the levels of consciousness in human experiences. Freud’s theory suggests that there are in fact three levels of consciousness. The: Consciousness‚ –which ironically only occupies a minor place within the theory – functions as the level of mental health that is directly available to us‚ Pre-consciousness which contains experiences that are not yet conscious‚ but can become so‚ and The Unconsciousness (where
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experienced both higher and lower pleasures‚ and would not willingly switch from a life of higher pleasures to a life of lower pleasures. Through controlled experiences‚ Griffen and Speck argue in New Evidence of Animal Consciousness that animals do possess some form of primary consciousness enabling them to experience these lower pleasures that Mill describes. Intellectual pleasures may be unique to humans‚ but sensual pleasures are now being examined and documented in animals. How do we‚ as humans
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Are We a Mind‚ a Body or Both? Of all the topics that are currently occupying the attention of philosophers‚ the Mind-Body problem is at center stage. It is one of the classical metaphysical issues concerning the relationship between that which is mental and that which is physical. The simple question asked is: what are we? Are we a mind‚ a body or both? The issue has its origins in the ancient dualism of Plato and since then many solutions to the problem have been offered. D.M. Armstrong s The Mind-Body
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gentlemen‚ that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs‚ it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness‚ that is‚ half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century every sort of consciousness‚ in fact‚ is a disease. I got to the point of feeling a sort of secret abnormal‚ despicable enjoyment in returning home to my corner on some
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technique whereby we allow the mind to experience finer and finer states of a thought and eventually go beyond the finest state of thought‚ beyond intellect to gain unbounded awareness‚ pure consciousness in the most natural and effortless way. This field of pure consciousness or transcendental consciousness is the source of all creativity and intelligence that we display in our active lives. It is the reservoir of creative intelligence‚ located deep within the mind at the source of thought.It involves
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Problem Set – June 11th 1. How does our spatial representation of time constitute an element of consciousness? Jaynes outlines six essential features to consciousness in modern humans. The first is spatialization. This describes the ability to metaphorically construct abstract concepts in a spatial map. For example‚ think about human history from about 1000 AD to today. How did you conceive of this concept? Did you see a timeline running left to right‚ with bullet points for the Norman Conquest
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implies that a person lives in consecutive stretches of consciousness connected in a logical manner. In this case‚ each stretch of consciousness indicates the all thoughts and emotions experienced by a person at a given moment in time (322). This leads to the Memory Theory of personal identity‚ which Miller suggested according to his readings on Locke. It basically states that all the past events occurring within this stream of consciousness forms memory and our personal identity consists of the accumulation
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promoted for serving his country in the war but couldn’t remember being flogged as a boy. According to Locke the general is the officer‚ and the officer is the person who was flogged‚ yet the general is the not the same person who was flogged as his consciousness can’t go back to the time he was flogged. Yet Reid believes that logically speaking the general is the
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