patient lacks a ‘normal’ human brain, but otherwise appears to be completely normal, raises questions as to whether they have the usual range of mental states or some variation. The five doctors make observations and statements in regard to the mind-body problem and how it relates to the patient. Making a reasonable analysis of the doctor’s statements and the information that I know, I conclude that the patient has the usual range of mental states. I believe this as I feel that mental states can be
Phantom Limb Experience Of people who have had body parts amputated, about 80 percent experience some sort of phantom limb sensation. This experience, which can range from severe shooting pain to merely feeling the presence of the absent limb, most often occurs in amputees but sometimes manifests itself in individuals whose limbs have been missing since birth. The sensations patients experience are not necessarily of the same strength, location, or duration from occurrence to occurrence, and the
Phantom Limbs: Sensations When There Should be None The phenomenon known as the phantom limb occurs in 95-100% of amputees. It can occur soon after amputation or occur years later. It is when patients feel sensations where the arm or leg used to be as if it were still there. These sensations can be either non-painful sensations or painful sensations, which are called phantom limb pain. These non-painful sensations are described as similar feels as if the limb were there such as warmth, tingling
Dimensions of Pain Pain can be described in a number of different ways, but is determined by the perception of pain that they are experiencing. “Pain is something that comes from our experiences and develops due to stimulation and human interaction. It involves concepts such as location, feelings of unpleasantness and having the sensation of pain. Pain becomes possible because of a psychological development that begins at birth” (Challies). The sensory pain is the quality of the pain experienced
events” (Carruthers 301). For example, if I were to put my hand on a hot stove, I would have a conscious awareness of the pain of my burning flesh and it would provoke physical actions such as immediately drawing back my hand and screaming. This instance illustrates Carruthers’ first premise in the Identity Theory argument that conscious states and events, or my awareness of the pain of burning my hand, is a causal condition for the occurrence of physical states and events, which would be exemplified
Frankenstein seems to be an exact representation of the ideas of the 17th century philosopher John Locke. In Locke’s “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” he talks about the idea that we as humans are all born with a ‘blank slate’ that contains no knowledge whatsoever and that we can only know that things exist if we first experience them through sensation and reflection. In Frankenstein, the monster portrays Locke’s ideas of gaining knowledge perfectly through worldly experience of learning
Understanding sensation as a process where physical stimuli or feeling sent from sensory organs to our brain, I could relate the information of module 5 with my everyday experience. Learning the principal methods of operation of audition, vision, touch, taste and smell help me to obtain a deeper knowledge about our sensory organs and their interaction with stimuli, sensors, and our brain. Also, I gained a more valuable understanding of placebo effects and their implications in mental processes. I
attention was drawn to the most peculiar varieties of seashells, such as the carnivorous murex. Soon he added these unusual specimens to his collection. As he got older, he transferred this interest to abnormal phenomena in chemistry, astronomy, and human anatomy. Perhaps he intuited that these anomalies fulfilled some kind of purpose in nature, that what does not fit the pattern has something interesting to tell us. Perhaps he felt that he himself—with his passion for science when other boys were attracted
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis Congenital Insensitivity to Pain is a very amazing disease. I chose to report on the specific section of it dealing with Anhidrosis because this also leaves the infected individual with the inability to sweat. This causes problems such as fevers and overheating from over exertion or external heat which in turn can cause brain damage. Many people affected by this disease die before the age of twenty-five from infections left untreated, metal retardation
consider one and other because humans are ‘rational beings’ and autonomy. However, a rational being is someone who would “always regard himself as legislator in a kingdom of ends rendered possible by freedom of the will, whether as member or as sovereign” (Kant, 40), meaning a rational being is someone who is able to be independent without needs in which they would be considered as morality and humanity. An autonomy, therefore, “is the ground of the dignity of human nature and of every rational nature”