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    Consciousness

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    Consciousness Physical….Or Not???? The statements “I have a guilty conscious” and “My conscious eating me alive” are phrases that have been giving physical meaning by everyday people. What has not been given merit is the imaginable state of consciousness or ones conscious. Are the statements true or just simply a saying with no meaning? For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated

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    States of Consciousness

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    in/out of various states all the time * Self-Reflective - the mind is aware of its own consciousness - your brain reflects on the fact that “you” are conscious Conscious and Unconscious Mind * Cognitive penises - reject Freud * There is no unconscious mind driven by repressed emotions and instinctive urges (Freud’s Id) * The unconscious mind is * A support service * Works in harmony with our conscious mind Controlled vs. Automatic Processing * Controlled Processing

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    Psychological Horror

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    The story now has something to do with the mind and how it works‚ and there is really no definition for that. The mind and its inner workings are still a mystery to us and that mystery of the mind adds to the suspense and therefore the idea of psychology and horror are able to go together and become one. With Poems such as the Haunted Well by Dolores Faye Thorn and Fair Jessica by Bobette Bryan further illustrating the diabolical places that the mind can go for example: “Jessica‚ Fair Jessica

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    that the mind is separate and distinct from the body? * Do you find his argument convincing? Why or why not? Give reasons for your answer. (*Be sure to discuss‚ God‚ the distinction between types of ideas‚ and the distinction between the two substances.) Dualism consists of substances‚ which include corporeal things and thinking things. The essence of the mind is thought be the essence of the body but its extension. Human bodies and their properties are objects of sense perception. Minds and

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    How to deal with stressful situations are work When you are stressed at work it can wreak havoc on the rest of your life. You can become very stressed out and it can go home with you too. You should not let work situations interfere with your everyday life. It is going to become stressful and give you more problems when let stress bother you more than what you should. This may sound easy but it is not. You have to deal with stressful situations at work so that they do not come home with you.  There

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    As humans‚ we can apply mental concepts and conscious states to others to explain and predict their behavior. This process is known as mind reading. Although there are several theories that explain how mind reading works‚ the one that I find most plausible is the simulation theory. The simulation theory states that we generate certain mental states in ourselves and are then able to predict and explain the mental states of others. In simpler terms‚ with the simulation theory‚ we want to say what

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    nature of the link between mind and body. Dualism believes that humans have physical bodies and nonphysical souls. The body and mind were viewed as separate. Greek philosopher‚ Plato asserted that there is a clear distinction between the material world and soul. French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ physiologists‚ Rene Descartes‚ emphasized how they interacted by the soul controlled the body. However‚ Monism assumes that the mind and body are one. It believes that the mind exits only by the function

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    Social Animal

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    unconscious mind is the driving force behind human interaction and main component that makes us who we are. The Social Animal‚ published in 2011‚ is one of the many published works by Brooks that have received many positive reviews for his intellectual and emotional approach to tackling the diverse subjects while still appealing to the reader. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and op-ed columnist at the New York Times. He approaches the power of the unconscious mind using two fictional

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    psychological assumptions

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    the Cognitive Approach is that internal mental processing should be studied. This is different to the Behaviourist Approach as they believe in behaviour that is observable but cognitive psychologists study the mind internally. Another assumption of the Cognitive Approach is that the human mind should be compared to a computer to see how it works. Cognitive psychologists believe humans input information (senses)‚ process it (memory‚ perception etc.) and output it (behaviour) like computers do. An assumption

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    Property Dualism Argument

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    exactly the same property. It means that mind can never be physical object‚ which is a fact that could be derived here. Additionally the arugument is that no machine or computer in the world can have conscious‚ i.e.‚ feel of pain‚ feeling of happiness‚ sad etc.‚ But by incorporating some additional algorithms and hardwares these computer can be made to act as a conscious object. Hence‚ the final fact is a physical object can never be conscious. Hence mind is not a physical object Argument 4: Doubt

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