cast of characters and description of the initial situation takes place in the sea‚ which is‚ symbolically considered‚ the realm of the collective unconscious. Moreover‚ given the fact that everybody has fishes’ tails‚ from the point of view of consciousness‚ the characters depicted are all driven by unconscious instinctual impulses‚ including the Little Mermaid. There are eight characters described at the beginning of the tale‚ the king‚ his mother‚ the Little Mermaid and her five sisters. Symbolically
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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 reasons why Nagel believes consciousness cannot be scientifically
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woman linked to Emmett Till‚ who “has broken her silence and acknowledged that the most incendiary parts of the story she and others told about Emmett… were false.” Some may insist that taking a stand will cost a life‚ but in this scenario‚ hate crimes and a loss of life were the outcomes of keeping silent. If a press release confronting the false statements was made at the time of Emmett’s existence‚ he might still be alive today.
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quantum theory may show how our perception and reality may both be subjective. In his paper‚ Nagel argues that the analogies and theories frequently employed by scientists to explain the mind-body relationship fail because they do not account for consciousness in physical terms. Furthermore‚ no such theory can be found because “when we examine their subjective character it seems that such a result is impossible” (Negal 220). This is because phenomenon is subjective and connective inseparable from a single
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Paulo Freire touches upon two different forms of education: the banking concept and problem-posing. In doing so‚ he unearths a concept that is deeper than education itself. He states‚ "Indeed‚ the interests of the oppressors lie in changing the consciousness of the oppressed‚ not the situation which oppresses them ’; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation‚ the more they can be easily dominated" (Freire 4). This statement can be applied to the banking concept of education
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Richardson and Porter use the stream of consciousness to add depth to their characters‚ and to tell the story of their characters experiences before dying and their thoughts of their life. Answers.com tells us that the stream of consciousness is a “literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur”. Richardson’s stream of consciousness is more to the point about death; it states in short sentence bursts the action‚ the consciousness of death‚ and the pain that we
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production is his active species life. Through and because of this production‚ nature appears as his work and his reality. The object of labor is‚ therefore‚ the objectification of man’s species life: for he duplicates himself not only‚ as in consciousness‚ intellectually‚ but also actively‚ in reality‚ and therefore he contemplates himself in a world that he has created” (76). “[…] the productive life is the life of the species. It is life-engendering life. The whole character of a species –
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receive. The concept of conscious learning was eliminated by behaviourist with favour of psychological explanations of SLA; behaviourists believes that‚ consciousness played no causal role in life and consciousness is a meaning-less‚ prescientific term‚ a view expressed by some philosophers (Rey 1983)‚ they came to the conclusion that consciousness cannot be scientifically investigated as conscious experience is subjective‚ and external observation is impossible‚ (Lyons 1986; Nisbett and Wilson 1977;
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A Review Essay on Marti Kheel’s Nature Ethics and Its Implications for a More Integrative Approach to Transpersonal Psychology Introduction In Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (2008)‚ ecofeminist Marti Kheel critically analyzes the contributions of four holistic environmental philosophers. Kheel argues that in basing their moral recognition of the value of other than human beings and the natural world on abstract constructs (e.g. species‚ ecosystems‚ or the transpersonal Self) these
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from nature‚ and separation of ego from consciousness. The latter is the process of self-discovery. Rollo May‚ another psychologist‚ explains this separation of ego from unconscious in four stages as well as the transition from being unfree to being free. Both men’s ideas are well demonstrated in John Knowles World War II novel‚ A Separate Peace through the development of Gene. Similar to most adolescents‚ Gene struggles through the stages of consciousness and ultimately gains the freedom to control
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