Tedtalk's The Illusion Of Consciousness

Perfect: adj. \ˈpər-fikt\ 1. Entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings, is the first definition you find on dictionary.com for the word (perfect). Is this actually possible to attain? Has anyone actually ever been perfect? Or is it all in the eye of the beholder? These questions are asked by almost every girl, as we dream to one day reach the unattainable. This is especially true at the tender age of fifteen, where nothing seems to be going right with our bodies and everything is changing in us. This poem stresses the fact that as everyone realizes how unrealistic this dream is, the knowledge makes no difference to the wish. Marisa de los Santos comments on this in her poem “Perfect Dress”. The use of verbose imagery,

Loneliness and exclusion from society hurts and affects everyone; the emotional strain a person endures from it creates the image they present to others, but deep down they are not the display image they manufacture. As an illustration, while opening up to Lennie in the barn Curley’s wife states, “I get lonely… You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad.

Nouwen (1975) describes loneliness as a universal experience that affects even the most intimate relationships. He identifies loneliness as one of the universal sources of human suffering. Some of the mental suffering in the

Merriam-Webster defines perfection, in regards to religion, as “the theological doctrine that a state of freedom from sin is attainable on earth.” The desire for perfection, however, stems into all aspects of life in the form of perfectionism. It can be argued that there are three main manifestations of perfectionism: self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed (Flett and Hewitt 457). Self-oriented perfectionism is driven by one’s own desire to achieve high standards, and as such leads to higher rates of self-blame if not achieved (Flett and Hewitt 457). This form has been associated with anxiety, depression, low-self-regard, and anorexia (Flett and Hewitt 457). The second form is based on “interpersonal perfectionistic behavior,” which involves holding high expectations for others and leads to a lack of trust, feelings of hostility,

Perfection is the unattainable state or quality we strive possess. An individual’s freedom from flaws or defects is based on the views of the society he lives in. In addition, we often associate ideas of perfection with those of higher rank or with superiority. The minorities are then left as the undesired, the outsiders. But societal views are not completely accurate. Perfection seems to be about “having it all”.

Human beings are not capable of accomplishing perfection but they are capable of trying to strive for perfection. If that could be possible humans wouldn’t be humans. The human race is full of imperfections. There is no way anyone can reach that level of perfection on this earth. It is foolish to strive for perfection.

If 1,000 different people were asked to define the word "perfection", chances are there would be 1,000 different answers. That is because each individual has something that they are basing their response off of, whether it is a past experience, an ideal experience, or even just a feeling. Despite their variations, one thing that all of the answers would have in common, is the fact that "perfection" refers to something that makes the responder completely happy, something that they would never want to change.

While the majority of people find happiness by surrounding themselves with friends and family, Hemingway embraced melancholy as he fixated on isolation, proving to be an anomaly. Shaped by his worldview’s absence of a god-like figure and a human purpose, Hemingway communicates his belief in the reality of human loneliness. In his short story, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” the elderly waiter expresses Hemingway’s view of emptiness: “It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too… Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada

In Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” loneliness is described through a desolate spider that vainly attempts to start a web. When the narrator shifts from speaking about the spider making its web to a human attempting to find its place in the world, the person is depicted as being stranded “in measureless oceans of space” (Whitman 7). The spider is having trouble attaching its first fiber to a branch on the tree in order to start its web. The human is having trouble finding a niche in the world in order to feel a sense of belonging. The isolation of the spider represents how despairing and desolate a person may feel in life when there are so many options for their life path. It is impossible to determine which is the right one for them, therefore it seems like all the efforts put into navigating through the vast ocean will simply be in vain. However, no matter how lonely and hopeless it can be, people must be patient just like the spider was when making its spider web.

From the previous discussion, now emptiness can be perceived as an “empty space”, as a shelter in the built environment, where silence and calmness would produce a sense of stillness and always fulfilled by the untold stories. What interests me and what I seek, is the answer to the question “How to create emptiness”; the void. There is no way that we can plan emptiness, but we can draw its boundaries, and so emptiness can come to life.

In the TED Talk, what I found most interesting was how the speakers hypothesized the outcome of creating false memories. The mouse would initially be placed in the blue box, then placed in the red box where the memory of being in the blue box is activated while shocking the mouse, and put back into the blue box. They believe that if a false memory has been created, the mouse will associate the shocking with the blue box rather than the red box so the mouse will freeze while in the blue box instead of the red box. This could be related to branding. Say Brand A is like the blue box. You are using Brand A, but then for whatever reason you switched to Brand B. Brand B offers the same services, and in general, is very similar to Brand A so while

Perfection is a word used to describe something without flaws. Perfection is something that people strive for every day, even though it is impossible to achieve it. Some people are more of a perfectionist than others, and they are the ones that try their hardest to be perfect at everything they do. If they mess up, they tend to be harder on themselves. They obsess over perfection so much that if there is the slightest imperfection, they will do whatever is in their power to make it perfect. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story entitled “The Birth-Mark,” the readers see an instance where the main character is so blinded by his obsession of being perfect that it ultimately leads to unwanted consequences (Hawthorne 645-656).

As humans, we are mechanically inclined to search for perfection. Everybody wants to be perfect, and when they become perfect, they want to be better. People strive for perfection in multiple ways. Some chase perfection spiritually; they cleanse their body and soul of sin. Some chase it in their profession; they want to be the best at their work and refuse to have any competition. And some chase it mentally; balancing the troubles of life and the counterweights that support them to a degree that satisfies them best. But let’s face it, perfection is unachievable. Those who dedicate their lives to being perfect are merely chasing shadows. Perfection is an abstract idea, something we humans made up the concept of in an attempt to make us all better. No man can ever be perfect. I am not perfect, and you are not perfect, and none of the people around you are perfect. Nathaniel Hawthorne tries to enlighten people about the quest for perfection and how it leads to corruption through his short stories.

As well as there is people who believe perfection is not attainable, there is also people who believe that it is possible to reach that, when they give everything they have. It is a much divided opinion, which will perhaps never come to one only general conclusion. To succeed in life people must always work hard and sometimes sacrifice some things they think are important, but putting them in front of another type of situations they would not be taken as a priority. The majority of these people who believe in perfection

Michel de Montaigne is the author the book On Solitude. In this book Montaigne brings up many topics and discusses his views on them and what these nouns do to men in the world. Some of these topics are solitude, as stated in the title, sadness, fear, books, as well as a few others. In these topics Montaigne elaborates on how these objects and states of being can affect a person’s life in both positive and negative ways, but most of the affects that will be talked about are negative. In any case, Montaigne’s point of view on such objects connect even to today’s times.