In determining what it means for mental states to be unified in consciousness, it becomes apparent that one needs to first identify the various unity relations within and among specific mental states, before then approaching complete conscious unity. From what I can gather, the consensus among philosophers seems to be that for mental states to be unified into a single state of consciousness is for them to be linked by phenomenology. Philosopher Tim Bayne believes that unity consists in the subsumption of all of a subject’s specific conscious states, at one point in time, by a single, total conscious state. Jesse Prinz, on the other hand, introduces a Resonance Theory of Unity. He grants that phenomenology is a core constituent of unified consciousness, …show more content…
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Necessarily, for any conscious subject of experience (S) and at any time (t), the simultaneous conscious states that S has at t will be subsumed by a single conscious state—the subject’s total conscious state. (Bayne 16)
A subject of experience enjoys unified consciousness when each of its conscious mental states stands in unity with each other conscious mental state. The subject then has one conscious state, called a total conscious state. This total state is subsumed only by itself. Bayne believes that this unity, alone, is necessary to have a single state of consciousness. I believe the temporal constraint of the Unity Theory is what allows it to withstand the traditional counter-examples to unified streams of consciousness, including the conditions of schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, hypnosis, and split brain
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I will begin with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia generally involves the significant disruption of thought, emotion, and/or general cognition. The condition is usually divided into negative symptoms (which might include flat affect, anhedonia, poverty of speech) and positive symptoms (delusions, hallucinations). Bayne focuses on the impairments of thought insertion and thought disorder in his discussion, which are typically grouped under the positive domain. Thought disorder is characterized by impairments in selective attention and goal-directedness. Patients who experience thought insertion deny ownership of the thoughts of which they are introspectively aware—they lose the sense of agency that normally accompanies
There are many cases of people being stubborn or unwilling to change their views. Although being stubborn is usually portrayed as a negative trait, Emerson's third maxim, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Emerson), portrays it in a positive light. A succinct explanation of this maxim would simply be believing in one's own thoughts, beliefs, moral, ethics, and honor without conforming to what others believe is the most sacred quality. The maxim connects to the idea of self-reliance; where people must be able to rely on their own beliefs, morals, and are able to think for themselves. For example, The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail, a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, involves a lot of Emerson's maxims
Roger’s theory of the Unitary individual is however I feel nursing ought to be practiced. Nurses ought to read the person as an entire and not as a machine. analyse delineated the simultaneousness paradigm, humans area unit unitary, irreducible, and within the continuous mutual method with the setting (Rogers, 1970, 1992). In distinction to analyse, Newman known 3 paradigms. one in every of them is that the Unitary-transformative paradigm is analogous to Parse’s simultaneousness theory. The unitary-transformative theory describes humans as burled, self-organizing fields at intervals the larger burled, self-organizing fields. Applying the Unitary Transformative Nursing theory in an exceedingly clinical setting would require American state to look at not solely what's visible and obvious, however additionally that that is obscure as influences within the entire setting.
In the wake of slavery, the black body is constantly under attack. The hold co-exists within the wake of slavery. According to Christina Sharpe, college professor, author of In the Wake on Blackness and Being, (2016) “The wake; a state of wakefulness and a state of consciousness” (pg. 5). Being in the wake of slavery means one still faces the negative effects it and is aware of the negative affects it has on the black community. The hold co-exists in the wake of slavery and the black body is inhibited by this hold. Sharpe defines the hold as, “A large space in the lower part of a aircraft in which cargo is stowed (of a ship or aircraft); keep or detain (someone)” (p. 68). In the hold, the black body has been introduced, taught, ingrained and continues this idea of the language of violence. Through the actual hold of the ship during the Middle Passage, to the perception of blacks which also holds the black body, and to the engrained idea of the “masculine black body” which keeps queer black bodies in their own hold. In this paper, I will examine the intersectionality of blackness and queerness which is being held in the wake of slavery.
Critically assess Du Bois’s conception of double consciousness. Can double consciousness be dissolved and, if so, how?
The Unitary-Transformative Paradigm explains that the universe is inter-connected. It describes a way of knowing in a transpersonal way, and it is the only paradigm that describes the sub-atomic particles as the “God particles.” In my Christian worldview this is Christ’s consciousness. (Class Notes, 2015) Hence, Christ’s consciousness is the energy force that connects everything together in time and space, String Theory. It cuts deep to the innermost part of man, the soul. As a nurse I will use this paradigm with my patients. I can act as a guide to help people look within themselves and be made aware of a higher level of consciousness. In doing so, people will understand patterns and their true state of health. I will serve a purpose of cultivating the seed of love through faith, which guides us when
Derek Parfit believes that split-brain cases support the Bundle Theory because split brain cases appear to demonstrate two levels of consciousness, rather than suggesting that consciousness is destroyed in people whose sub-dominant hemispheres are destroyed. The suggestion that there are multiple levels of consciousness aligns with Parfit's understanding of Bundle Theory, although his explanation of Bundle Theory does not limit itself to two dimensions of consciousness. On the contrary, under Parfit's explanation, Bundle Theory suggests an almost infinite variety of levels of consciousness, which, when taken as a whole form the experience that one refers to as a human life. Therefore, to have dual experiences of consciousness would not conflict with Bundle Theory.
This essay assesses property dualism, a theory of mind. It proclaims the existence of a single, physical substance (unlike Cartesian dualism), but argues that this single substance has two potential properties: physical and mental states that are not reducible.
In the world of philosophy, there has been an ever growing skepticism of the relationship between the human body and its mental state. The physical state of a person is tangible, meaning that they can be seen by anyone and touched. While the mental state of a person is embedded in their consciencousness, meaning that it can’t be observed by others unless willing expressed by said person. I will be using Leibniz’s law of identity to show that the metal states of an individual are distinct from a physical state. Using the notion of sameness, I can prove a valid argument that the physical and mental states are distinct. While this theory in part can be debated, some identity theorists can provide a rebuttal this claim. I will provide a response to an identity theorist rebuttal.
Consciousness allows a person to recognize their existence, and subsequently, to form their essence. The
Thesis: The mind-body problem arises because of the lack of evidence when looking for a specific explanation of the interaction of mental and physical states, and the origin and even existence of them.
This theory focused on three components which are as followed; the first one is individual elements of consciousness, second is how they organized into more complex experiences, and third is how these mental phenomena correlated with physical events.
While introspection argued that we only received one stream of experience or stimuli at a time, this idea put forth by Puccetti offered a union of two streams of experience before the conscious state. Therefore, while introspectively it seemed there was only one stream, there quite possibly were two conscious streams that joined together through the complex network of commissures.
This intrinsic subjectivity is important to keep in mind when studying consciousness from a heterophenomenological perspective. The only true basis we have to determine the individual experience of another person is what they communicate to us. If this communication is inherently jumbled with misunderstandings and theories of one’s qualia, the data on which heterophenomenology is based is flawed and, consequently, so is heterophenomenology itself. Rather than providing a scientific third-person view of consciousness, it creates more of a collective fictional narrative that describes the average experiences of others. In analogous terms, heterophenomenology aims to create a textbook, but can only produce a pop culture magazine. This view may be debated by analyzing the validity of personal experience. The fact that an individual’s view of their own internal processes is flawed could be seen as irrelevant; in the end, what truly matters to the study of consciousness is what one is experiencing. If what one believes differs from the truth, does this incongruity not reveal key factors of consciousness? Furthermore, these subjective claims can be cross-referenced with scientific facts to neutralize human error. This can be seen in one of the examples above, in which an individual claims that they went to a restaurant because they were hungry because they had not eaten in
So the original consciousness “decides” to overcome the challenge of the otherness by absorbing it into itself, causing a battle for recognition between the now two consciousnesses.
For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated character”, that he feels defines consciousness and makes it simple. But is it really that simplistic?? I mean consciousness is something everyone is aware of at every waking moment of life until death. Never has it been something