literature and film throughout time. The short story “Super-toys Last All Summer Long” is written in 1969 by Brian Aldiss. The short story deals with the ethical questions of artificial intelligence. Is it possible for a machine to have a mind and consciousness? Can it feel? Furthermore the short story calls into question of what is real and unreal. “Super-toys Last All Summer Long” is told from an omniscient third-person narrator’s point of view. We are not told the historical time of the story‚ but
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reason consciousness according to Nagel may escape our understanding‚ at least for now; in this sense Nagel suggests that “any physical theory of mind can be contemplated until more thought has been given to the general problem of subjective-objective” (Nagel‚ 1974/2002‚ p. 225). In other words‚ Nagel does not rule out a possible physicalist account of consciousness‚ but this‚ according to Nagel‚ awaits advances in science. However‚ I would argue that a better metaphysics of consciousness is also
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Ebbinghaus became the first psychologist to investigate learning and memory experimentally. In doing so‚ he not only showed that Wundt was wrong on that point but also changed the way in which association‚ or learning‚ could be studied. His goal was nothing less than to apply the experimental method to the higher mental processes. Most likely influenced by the popularity of the work of the British associationists‚ Ebbinghaus chose to under- take his breakthrough research in the area of human
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of detail‚ Katherine Anne Porter develops a character‚ a grief woman as well as a strong mother‚ who struggles between the past and the present. In order to Focus on the real heart of Granny Weatherall‚ the author applies the stream of consciousness to delineate Granny and emphasis the direct feeling in her mind. This writing strategy helps readers grasp the protagonist’s features in personality and develops them step by step‚ tracing the character’s fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings
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personal identity to be composed of‚ in this case consciousness or as Reid prefers to call it‚ memory. I somewhat agree with him as I believe personal identity is the combined collection of events‚ emotions‚ memories‚ and choices‚ etc. we as individuals have experienced and wish to experience‚ it is in a sense what we identify with. Furthermore‚ considering his thought experiment‚ the
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subjective component of consciousness‚ and this component defeats any attempt to define consciousness in objective terms. Nagel believes that it is impossible to fully understand consciousness without the subjective experience. Intentional states cannot explain a subjective experience; therefore‚ the only to understand consciousness using reductionist theory would be to remove the subjective component – this would obviously be illogical. Nagel concludes that consciousness cannot be explained by reductionists
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Excursion‚ Wordsworth asserts that it is the ‘Mind of Man’ which is ‘My haunt‚ and the main region of my song’. Wordsworth is interested not in the natural world for its own sake but in the relationship between the natural world and the human consciousness. His poetry‚ therefore‚ offers us a detailed account of the complex interaction between man and nature—of the influences‚ insights‚ emotions and sensations which arise from this interaction—rather than a precise observation of natural phenomena
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her poems “Because I could not stop for Death" and "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" she shows the end of her life in her physical body‚ and the beginning of an eternal existence in the afterlife. "Many of Emily Dickinson’s Poems dramatize of consciousness."(Cunningham‚1). Most of her poems discussed the continued life of the mind and thought after physicality. While most poets and writers speak of death as something to fear and one of the darkest parts of our existence‚ Dickinson puts a lightness
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indisputably the most towering monolith. It was Freud’s pioneering use of the term "the I" "das Ich" in his native German‚ which was then translated into the Latin "ego" that brought "ego" into common parlance and popular interest to the process of self-consciousness. Adler’s school of psychology‚ which he called "Individual Psychology‚" was based on the idea of the indivisibility of the personality. His most significant divergence from Freud’s premises was his belief that it was crucial to view the human being
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At its most basic‚ the mind can be defined as the faculty of consciousness and thought. H While the basic definition and role of the mind is generally agreed upon‚ many philosophers disagree on the ontological nature of the mind. Some take the physicalist stance and argue that the mind is a physical element‚ just like the body‚ while others take the dualist stance and believe that the mind is non-physical and categorically distinct from the body. In this essay‚ I will explore the merits and shortcomings
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