Consciousness is a tricky concept‚ both in its definition and its attribution. Here‚ “consciousness” refers to a cognitive process involving self-awareness and wakefulness; this paper will be specifically concerned with self-awareness‚ which seems to be a minimum requirement of conscious experience. I propose that the evolutionary history of consciousness likely began in large-bodied‚ arboreal apes with the development of a bodily self-awareness and sense of personal agency‚ allowing them to successfully
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Entering the Asia region you pass a café where you can stop and get something to eat and drink because by this point you will be tired of walking. Next door are the massive Asian Elephants slowly pacing around their exhibit. The Sumatran Orangutan Ape casually lays in his tree next to the Elephant and Amur Leopard‚ as I walked passed these exhibits I wondered how the animals react to each other when they get near each other in the real wild. Some of my favorite animals in the region were definitely
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Characters: Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi) - The protagonist of the story. Piscine is the narrator for most of the novel‚ and his account of his seven months at sea forms the bulk of the story. Piscine’s nickname‚ Pi‚ has a symbolic relationship with the mathematical pi (π) . The ratio of the circumference (circular) of a circle to its diameter (linear) is pi. The correlation between the linear journey to North America and the cycles of doubt and faith are experienced by Pi. Mathematical relationships
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Animals Think?‚” “Are Dolphins Also Persons?‚” and the video “A Conversation with Koko”. First of all‚ The Time Magazine article‚ “Can Animals Think?” by Eugene Lindon relates several accounts of remarkable animal intelligence. In one example‚ an orangutan named Fu Manchu escaped from his cage at the Omaha Zoo by picking the cage’s lock with a metal wire. By using his intelligence and observation skills‚ Fu Manchu was able to extricate himself and his family from their cage so they could enjoy an afternoon
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Time begins to pass and the zebra is attacked by the hyena but not killed which he finds strange. They find an orangutan which is named “Orange Juice” that he finds comfort with as they drift‚ Pi was not really eating much but shows signs of slowly going insane. This insanity is sort of a drive for him as he seems to converse a but with Orange Juice but mostly finds
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are a Amur leopard‚ Bali mynah‚ blue-eye black lemur‚ black and white ruffled lemur‚ Chinese alligator‚ blacked-headed spider monkey‚ Guam kingfisher‚ Guam rail‚ mhorr gazelle‚ mongoose lemur‚ Panamanian golden frog‚ Rodrigues fruit bat‚ Sumatran Orangutan‚ western lowland gorilla‚ and a white bellied spider monkey. The zoo has just blossomed into something beautiful from the day it started to
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demonstrate how faith‚ ritual and one’s will to live save one from the barbaric and carnivorous reality. Pi Patel‚ lover of faith and various gods and their beliefs loses his family after a shipwreck and drifts on the Pacific Ocean with a zebra‚ hyena‚ orangutan and a tiger‚ Richard Parker each struggling in their own way to survive. Yann Martel uses the protagonist Pi to claim that one retains his or her survival will through writing. Martel includes the fact that Pi writes‚ “I die” as his pen runs dry
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PUBLIC SPEAKING Participant’s name: Corrie Cossta Florin (SK Kebayau) Title: Adventure in Sabah Good morning to all wise judges‚ the teachers‚ friends and to all pupils. Today‚ I would like to talk about the many adventures in Sabah that we can proud of and as a destination for visiting. Sabah is located at the northern tip of Borneo‚ the third’s largest island. It has a long coastline that washed by the South China Sea on the West and the Sulu Sea and the Celebes Sea on the East. It has
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conjured to cope with what really happened. The ID is the source of all psychic energy‚ making it the primary component of personality (Sigmund Freud). Pi’s mother‚ a french cook‚ and a sailor all pass in a very gruesome way. Pi’s mother is told as the orangutan‚ her and the french cook get into a quarrel‚ and even though she puts up a fight‚ the cook wins in the end. The french cook takes after the hyena‚ he kills Pi’s mother and the sailor‚ but he eventually loses to Pi‚ as Pi takes after the Bengal Tiger
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Life of Pi Final Essay Life of Pi is the kind of story that really makes you think. There were so many different aspects of the book that I didn’t understand when we started reading that make sense now. One of those features is Pi’s story. During the time when we read that section of the book I didn’t even think about the truth behind it‚ I just read. Now that we have finished the book and we got to hear both of Pi’s stories‚ I’m not sure which I believe‚ but if I had to choose I would say
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