Charmain Rantsieng Philosophy Essay (20 March 2013) RNTREF002 Essay topic three The important problems of the mind module are: how do we understand the nature of mental events‚ their relation to the physical world and physical events and fundamentally the problems with other minds. This essay essentially serves to evaluate whether the Zombie argument against Cartesian Dualism is sound by: criticising the Zombie argument through analysing the validity of each premise of the Zombie argument
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does not survive the death of the body. As support‚ the following arguments from Lucretius will be examined: the “proof from the atomic structure of the soul‚” the “proof from parallelism of mind and body‚” the “proof from the sympatheia of mind and body‚” and the “proof from the structural connection between mind and body.” The following arguments from Plato will be used as counterarguments against Lucretius: the “cyclical argument‚” the “affinity argument‚” the “argument from the form of life‚” and
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states or processes of communication and cognitive pragmatics. Cognitive Pragmatics: The mental processes of communication Robyn Carston in his book “Linguistic Meaning‚ Communication Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics” states that within the philosophy of language‚ pragmatics has tended to be seen as an adjunct to‚ and a means of solving problems in semantics. A cognitive-scientific conception of pragmatics as a mental processing system is responsible for interpreting ostensive communicative stimuli
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century‚ Descartes presented the philosophy of Cartesian Dualism‚ with the trademark of “I think therefore I am”. Cartesian Dualism is fundamentally saying that the mind‚ which is an active substance‚ and the body‚ a passive substance‚ combine to make the living human. Thus‚ believing that the mind directly and absolutely affects the body‚ and any physical variation that may occur‚ while also believing that the body and physical aspects can have an affect on the mind. In Franz Kafka’s novella‚ The
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In “Can Computers Think?” John Searle argues against the prevailing view in philosophy‚ psychology‚ and artificial intelligence‚ which emphasizes the analogies between the functioning of the human brain and the functioning of digital computers. (Searle‚ 372) He asks whether a digital computer‚ as defined‚ can think. Specifically‚ he asks whether instantiating or implementing the right computer program with the right inputs and outputs is sufficient to‚ or constitutive of‚ thinking‚ to which he
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Reductive physicalism is the belief that “the only objects‚ properties‚ and events in the world” are ones of a physical nature (Ravenscroft 2005: 193)‚ so everything in the world can explained by physical processes. Although this belief has become significantly more popular with the advancement of neuroscience. As Papineau highlights “we find it very difficult to absorb this lesson” (Papineau 2010: 5). One argument against this belief is the ‘philosophical zombies argument’ which purports to cause
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The mind-body connection is a very powerful one. For everything you think in your mind‚ your body has a reaction‚ regardless of whether it is real or imagined. For example‚ have you ever had a bad dream? Usually‚ you will wake up and your heart is racing‚ you are sweating and very agitated‚ even though all you were doing was sleeping. But‚ in your mind there was something bad going on and your body was reacting to it. Here ’s another example: if you are home alone and you hear a noise and interpret
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My philosophy paper Is it possible for machines to develop consciousness? If a computer was programmed in a certain way‚ could the computer acquire a mind? David Chalmers argued that if he can prove that the answers to these questions is “Yes‚” then strong artificial intelligence is an eventuality. Chalmers began his argument for strong AI‚ in his book The conscious mind (1996)‚ by classifying all objections to artificial intelligence to two types. The first type is functional objections‚ where
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Education’‚ in wide use in present times comes closest in meaning to the Sanskrit word ’Vidya’ as it was used by the Gurus or preceptors of ancient India. ’Vid - ya’ means that which illumines. As such‚ it was identified with knowledge that illumines the mind and soul. Since the imparting of knowledge was the aim of education‚ over a period of time‚ education also came to be known as ’Vidya’. But‚ the highest goal of Vidya as visualized by the seers and seekers was to understand the Ultimate Truth or Reality
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<center><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknin’s Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Sigmund Freud said that we have an uncanny reaction to the inanimate. This is probably because we know that - despite pretensions and layers of philosophizing - we are nothing but recursive‚ self aware‚ introspective‚ conscious machines. Special machines‚ no doubt‚ but machines althesame. <br> <br>The series of James bond movies constitutes a decades-spanning
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