Advaita asserts that the only thing which is certain and apodictic is the evidence of consciousness for any claim that we make – whether we claim that we know something or the claim that we do not know something. All sources of knowledge are dependent on consciousness: whatever be the source of consciousness, be it perception, or inference, or scripture, it presupposes consciousness as its ultimate source. That which is the presupposition of every kind of knowledge and of every source of knowledge
From Buddhism point of view, “Rebirth occurs through consciousness or stream of consciousness and then become a new combination of aggregates.” More specifically, according to “Sandhinirmocana Sūtra” in Mahayana Buddhism, this essence of a beings can be seen as the store consciousness ( ālaya-vijñāna) in the eight consciousness (Skt: aṣṭa-vijñāna-kāya) because it clings to and hides in the body in the sense of sharing the body's same "fate"
The psychoneural identity theory, or identity physicalism, holds that mental states can be identified with physical processes in the brain (Kim 97). While this theory makes sense in terms of its simplicity and logic, it does not explain why our mental states can be traced back to physical processes. We can make a list of these psychoneural correlates, but this does not contribute to our understanding of why these correlations hold, or why they even exist (Kim 303). Physicalists have taken an approach
ate of Consciousness during Sleep Sara Kim Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself, and is believed to be a steady stream of thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. Though, being conscious isn’t just having your eyes open, there are many different stages. Consciousness can be thought of in two different categories; monitored and controlled. Monitoring is focusing one’s awareness on any outside event, while control is organize the thoughts
point in time. Nagel introduces the essential problem of the reductionists as an inability to grasp the meaning of consciousness in an organism. Nagel argues that “fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism” (Nagel, 404). In other words, the vast unique experiences of an organism constitute consciousness. Through this early example, Nagel is presenting the basis of
For the property dualist, mental phenomena are non-physical properties of physical substances. Consciousness is perhaps the most widely recognized example of a non-physical property of physical substances” (Calef, "Dualism and Mind"). An argument for property dualism is the Zombie argument. To explain the Zombie arguments, we must agree that in the philosophical
journal article “Conversion of America’s Consciousness: The Rhetoric of The Exorcist”, Thomas S. Frentz and Thomas B. Farrell make an argument in which they claim that the movie The Exorcist had a major social change in American society. They believe it made people shift their conscience from favoring positivism and turn to more transcendent views. In this journal article critique, I will identify the thesis of the paper, analyze what rhetorical theories the authors use to make their claim, point
and ideology. These outcomes are products of over-determination, or various determinations; albeit the base is the eventual determinant instance, it may not necessarily be the dominant one (Smith 1984: p. 526). Furthermore, ideology is not false consciousness as argued by the Frankfurt School. Ideology is both true and false. True, because it encompasses the real conditions of people’s lives. False, because it misrecognises and misrepresents power and class relations (Barker 2012: p. 64). Ideologies
of self, what is the self, what is the self in relation to the world and how do we define personal identity. In 1960 ‘in an essay concerning human understanding’ John Locke proposed that one’s personal identity is directly related to their own consciousness. It is important to have a clear definition of what we refer to as identity. For many philosophers it is generally agreed that identity refers to identity being one thing and not another. For example, it is the thing that makes me, me and you
McKinley Case Study Wilber’s integral theory of consciousness is appropriate for the McKinley case study whereby the learner is exposed to the situation on the ground at the McKinley family. The hospice social servant is mandated to offer hospice services to the ailing 79 year old Ruth McKinley who is suffering from a recurrence of breast cancer that has now propagated to the lungs. At the same time, the social worker meets the second and third generations of Ruth McKinley who are all concerned