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    Can artificial consciousness be possible? In other words, can a machine be conscious and have the same behavior as a human. Artificial consciousness or also can be referred as machine consciousness are machines created by humans that are programmed to have artificial intelligence in the machine’s system. This means that machines are programmed to have the intelligence as a human. However, would it be possible for humans to create a machine that is programmed to have the ability to think, feel, and

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    not the vehicle of consciousness, but rather the collection of experiences, personality traits, and ethical beliefs, individual hold. I will show that though the vehicle of consciousness may be a substantial visual and sentimental sense of the self, it is not as necessary experiences and personality traits to the extent of personal identity being present and maintained through space and time. Who am I? Individuals have a sense of who he or she is. For example, I am a male human who is 20 years old

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    theories of consciousness Students Name Institutional Affiliation Date Dretske 's quick argument against higher-order theories of consciousness Higher-order theories of consciousness directly state that thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs follow the first mental orders that that connect to personal consciousness. Mostly, the perception of something such as visible images represents the initial thought of phenomenal consciousness. The higher order of theories of consciousness seeks to elaborate

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    of the realm of the mind and consciousness, the mind and consciousness in relation to the physical body, and the independence of physical functions of the body through the central nervous system. The Realm of Mind and Consciousness It was believed at one time that the mind was a product of the brain. The mind is a

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    potential for consciousness as reality’s impetus, and through which individual consciousness acts to create reality. With this in mind, New Age philosophers such as physician Deepak Chopra advocate consciousness precedes matter’s presence in the chronology of reality. Comparatively, social scientist Willis Harman and, to an extent, biologist Rupert Sheldrake, adopt a more radical hypothesis: human consciousness creates reality. Presently, iconoclastic New Age theories suggest human consciousness creates

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    The study of consciousness in modern day psychology is becoming increasingly difficult to explain. In the early days of consciousness studies it may have been explained as our experience or awareness (Blackmore, 2010). However, over a number of years, there have been many psychologists who have contributed many important theories towards the explanation of how consciousness works, and its initial existence. As Chalmers states: “There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience

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    “Cinematic Thought Experiments of the Living Dead” Philosophical conceptions of consciousness represented through the zombie film The zombies that George R. Romero showcases in Night of the Living Dead (1968) now dominate the film industry as the prototype for the undead: the mindless corpse that is void of its prior consciousness. And the preferred food source of the undead has become like law for any pop-culture universe about zombies—even undead superheroes will eat people in the comic books

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    Consciousness has been referred to as ‘‘the hard problem’’ and still remains to be one of the most baffling conundrums of our generation. Consciousness is the subjective perception of the self. Consciousness allows us to feel happy, to solve problems, and to create memories. Consciousness has historically laid beyond the confines of science. Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, laid down the foundation of the study of consciousness by reflecting on what it meant to be conscious. Descartes was the

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    state of awareness while awake whereas there seems to be varying levels of consciousness that describe most mental states. If information can be perceived (knowing or unknowingly) then it is likely that you are conscious, e.g. even when in light sleep we can dream and may even wake up on hearing a loud noise, therefore the brain still processes information, however in deep sleep this is not the case. When looking at consciousness, there is what Levine described as the explanatory gap (Levine, 1983).

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    The Hegelian understanding of the master-slave dialectic tells us that when two beings that have not yet achieved self-consciousness come in contact with one another, they engage in a conflict to try to identify self-consciousness, and the only way to do that is to realize self-consciousness through comparison with the other person. This conflict between two people leads to a struggle to the death where one person values life over liberty, and the other values liberty over life, and whoever values

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