Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons

Now that we have a little more idea on where Locke and Parfit are coming from in my perspective, Who am, I? me, myself and I! I am in the image of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit! So think about self can you see that Parfit’s account of psychological continuity and connectedness just an abstract perspective of Lock’s memory criterion and personal identity theory?

What is human nature? Human Nature is characteristics or feelings shared by all humans. In “The Midas Touch” Midas is an example of human nature being greedy. Also, in the text “Are We Naturally Good or Bad?” shows that humans are naturally good based on an experiment. Lastly, in the video “The Myth of Human Nature” humans have certain needs that should be met. In all of these texts there are amazing examples of human nature and how humans would act in situations related to the topic.

In Genesis the word of God leads humanity in the direction of self preservation, urging them to procreate, to ”Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 9:1), and to minimize hostility and violence among people. As Freud asserted, “Besides the instinct to preserve living substance and join it into ever larger units, there must exist another, contrary instinct seeking to dissolve those units and bring them back to their primeval, inorganic state” (Freud 77). Genesis exemplifies the struggle between the two opposing human instincts, with God acting as a moderator between them. Forms of justice are put into place in an attempt to control these drives, one example being the proclamation that “Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). The ethics and laws that develop throughout Genesis seek to “prevent the crudest excesses of brutal violence” but are unable to control “the more cautious and refined manifestations of human aggressiveness” (Freud 70). Since they cannot be completely eradicated, the scriptures instead play into the more negative aspects of human nature, especially narcissism, and manipulate them into a force for conservation rather than annihilation.

Human nature by essence has been the cause of many entrepreneurial paths, all follow to known the essence itself behind of what we conceive as life. Moreover it’s righteous description and abstract content, that many great man has humbly studied and that for centuries have made a path closely enough to the understanding of it, yet far from the light, it seems to be and unsolvable question that gives us a “Raison d'être” to our existence in this world.

The id, the ego and the superego are another prominent theory that acts off of the conscious and un-conscious mind. Freudian psychology initiates with a earth full of objects. Among them is a exceptional object, the organism. An extremely meaningful portion of the organism is the nervous system. At birth, the nervous system is a little many than of else animals, an “it”

To further support the bundle theory, Parfit references split-brain cases. A split-brain case is what happens when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree in order to treat severe epilepsy. A person with a split brain shows to have two separate streams of consciousness. Ego Theory would argue that there are two separate egos but only one person. When separating “ego” from “person” does Ego Theory still hold valid? Parfit and the Bundle Theory state that this is an example of a different awareness of events occurring at the same time, not different egos. According to Parfit there is no “person” involved.

As human beings, we have all experienced the notion of being plagued by a single, paralyzing, and perhaps irrational fear. Often seen as a point of weakness and fragility, fear is an integral part of human nature and for the most part, cannot be destroyed, but merely conquered. Touching Bottom follows the female protagonist in her endeavors through her life in relation to her fear. A major variable in her life is swimming and being around water, as the story kicks off with her struggles in learning to swim. She undergoes a traumatizing experience with a leech at summer camp, leaving her paralyzed with a fear of murky water, and leeches specifically, a fear she carries on with her throughout her life. Forward to the protagonist as a married

The flaws of human nature are many, but one of the biggest is the gullibility, especially in the presence of the supernatural. It is often easy to think that the thoughts or actions of an individual are of their own doing. It is even easier to assume that the range of the mind falls between good and evil. But society is not quite clear and even in fiction, there is always something motivating an action that lingers in the back of the mind of any character. The supernatural in particular is known for its ability to push people to extremes and alter their perception drastically. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, it is easy to assume the blind ambition that brews within Macbeth and his wife or the guilt that plagues them following their actions is the biggest motivator. But that is just the surface of the complexity interlaced into this tragedy. Dig further, and it becomes clear that these emotions were not always prevalent in the characters, but were instead prompted by a force so powerful, it toyed with fate and provoked deception until the end; it was the supernatural that fueled the emotions and actions that take up much of the play.

However Parfit explains that for the continued existence of the ego is persons persistent existence over time the ego theory explains a person concious and how it can be unifed any time because that person is have numerous encounters at one time. However any person life is merged by them only because this person has all the life time of their own experiences. However Parfit explains the bundle theory he explains that the merge of conciousness over time is not justified by the ego the thoughts perception, and emotions we tend to have are brung together by the relations that each bit of out conscious encounter with. Parfit later ties the bundle theory and person's together he explains a person cannot exist independently from one brain (mind) and body basically Parfit believes that our brain work separately instead of working as one. Parfit states many points and give many examples on the bundle theory and how self doesn't exist he makes a point about cell change such as transporters and cell replacement making an argument if our cells was replaced would we still be who we are ?

For years philosophers have questioned so many aspects of the mind, but there is one question that has always seemed to stir up the most controversy in all arguments due to the fact that there are so many opinions but no hard evidence just theories. That question is; Is the mind a separate substance? For ages this question has stirred up controversy on whether when ones physical being dies the soul also parishes or does the soul stay alive being that it is a separate substance from the physical being. In an attempt to answer this questions famous philosophers came up with a theory that has to sides on the same subject. This theory is called dualism, Dualism is a position in philosophy of the mind that states that, in some fundamental or important

The flaws of human nature are many but one of the biggest is the gullibility of humans, especially in the presence of the supernatural. It is often easy to think that the thoughts or actions of an individual are of their own doing. It is even easier to assume that the range of the mind falls between good and evil. But society is not quite clear and even in fiction, there is always something motivating an action that lingers in the back of the mind of any character. The supernatural in particular is known for its ability to push people to extremes and alter their perception drastically. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, it is easy to assume the blind ambition that brews within Macbeth and his wife or the guilt that plagues them following their actions is the biggest motivator. But that is just the surface of the complexity interlaced into this tragedy. Dig further, and it becomes clear that these emotions were not always prevalent in the characters but were instead prompted by a force so powerful, it toyed with fate and provoked deception until the end; it was the supernatural that fueled the emotions and actions that take up much of the play.

According to Parfit, who is a British Philosopher that specializes in human identity, rationality and ethics explains that there are two rival theories of the person. These are the Ego and Bundle theories. The Bundle theory talks about how the human is just the function of its body, that there is no existence of such a soul. The human brain is just the sum of electrochemical activity. The Bundle theory would point out to that our understanding of the world is just the collection of our experiences. The Ego theory is the opposite view; it indicates that the ego is the mind/soul, that a human is not just a material being and each person is unique with the

In the movie directed by Tyler Perry there is a story that begins in an elegant weeding for Alice’s daughter named Andrea. Charlotte a wealthy woman organized the weeding because of her friendship with Alice. In reality, the problem begins at this point because Andrea was complaining about how she looks, for her the dress of her mother didn’t have any special meaning. She wanted to have an elegant and expensive dress. She was an ungrateful and selfish person because at this point she looks ambitious. She wanted to have more than the love of a family, the people in your life that will be always there for you. In addition, some of the issues show in this movie are infidelity, poverty, unemployment, deception, and the disease of Alzheimer. Consequently, I believe that nature vs. nurture and issues that people pass thought affects how people are.

Description of Individuals In “Of Two Minds”, the film follows the lives and stories of five main individuals and their battles with living with Bipolar disorder. Cheri, a woman in her 30s, dates her on-and-off boyfriend Petey, who also has Bipolar disorder. The express their creativity through gardening, music, and art. Terri is a also a woman in her 30s who works with her husband as a writer, spreading her experiences living with the disorder.

The thought of Dualism implied that there were two different things when it went to the cerebrum and the psyche. It implied that there was your body as one thing and your spirit which controlled everything the body did. In examining the mind and its parts, we now realize that every structure in the cerebrum controls your contemplation and your practices. We additionally now realize that there are diverse areas in the mind that control tactile data, for example, torment, touch, notice, hearing, and vision. In the wake of looking into the mind, we have found that the left half of the cerebrum controls the right half of the body and the right half of the mind controls the left half of the body. We additionally realize that there are chemicals