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Section I. Question asked in Simon Blackburn’s “Think” Are experiences through senses and experiences in the mind independent? Simon Blackburn attempts to answer this question by first explaining the “Zombie and Mutant Possibilities.”(pg. 52) The Zombie Possibility proposes that people may look and behave like ones-self but are not conscious. The Mutant Possibility proposes that there are people who look and behave like oneself and are conscious, but do not interpret feelings or senses the same
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such as Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and John Locke (1632-1704). Rene Descartes is the most important representative of rationalism. His philosophical thoughts had a big influence on certain psychological branches, especially Gestalt psychology. According to Landrum, "Descartes suggested that whereas the mind is the source of ideas and thoughts (that he correctly located in the brain), the body is a machine-like structure to be studied and understood." Descartes acknowledged
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mode of reasoning seems flawed only because he does not give god the credit. In his Letter to the Sorbonne . Descartes states that his purpose in showing that the human mind or soul is really distinct from the body is to refute those “irreligious people” who only have faith in mathematics and will not believe in the soul's immortality without a mathematical demonstration of it. Descartes goes on to explain how, because of this, people will not pursue moral virtue without the prospect of an afterlife
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they would fail when they are presented with a task that needs to be solved with intuition and logic, not just sheer information and processing. He also claims that human languages are another barrier that separate us from animals and machines. Descartes states that even a human of the lowest level of intellect can communicate in their given language and understand it while a machine can possibly project the words but not hold the ability to comprehend them. I find his argument fascinating because
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senses we begin to recognize patterns without knowing the principle of identity (Palmer). 4. Rene Descartes, the father of western canon of philosophy, reestablished his system of beliefs because of his famed statement corgito ergo sum. Where is the place of the thing that thinks in Locke’s system? Explain the standard form and how it applies to the system of Descartes and Locke. Descartes’ famed statement corgito ergo sum of “I think, therefore I am” is his realization that he is thinking
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Cognitive Psychology CandiseDiaz Cognitive Psychology Psychology possesses several branches. One of these branches is cognitive psychology. Like biological psychology, this branch also seeks knowledge that potentially
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in the West have become de-animated. Bai (2009) traces this de-animation to the philosophical ideas of Descartes and Plato, which have had a direct impact on our educational systems. Basically, Descartes contributed to the de-animation of the western perspective by adopting Plato’s concept of the separation of mind and matter. As Bai points out, “The most disturbing implication of Descartes’ theory of substances is just how degraded matter becomes when it is seen as having
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However, Lloyd focuses her essay on Descartes work that established the idea that reason is a method that requires systematic training, which proves that it is a notion that is universally applicable regardless of standing, but instead has become genderized over the years. This is because before
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our own decisions without being controlled, or if we are controlled and the decisions that happen are meant to happen. Is it our fate? Or is it possible that everyone makes their own future and pays for their own consequences? Whether it be Rene Descartes beliefs or John Locke ideas of the meaning of free will. These are many philosophers that have gone into detail describing free will and determinism but it is varied due to the fact we all think differently. Free will is described as the human will
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