Consciousness studies

Tom Stoppard is a brilliant British playwright, whose intentions of writing are usually to touch, or provoke the intellectual and spiritual part of our beings. One of his profound plays The Hard Problem reveals the nature of consciousness and the importance of the awareness of human beings. That topic is quite deep and intense to be openly discussed, thus the author chooses to present the story of Hilary, a young psychology researcher, and cover up the initial tragic genre with easily accessible

Phenomenology, as the study of structures of subjective experiences and consciousness, finds itself in the persistent struggle to claim its rightful place in contemporary research. (Hok-Eng Tan, Flavours of Thought.) It proposes to be our brains method to access food-related experience. Our cities are ‘peppered’ with noticeable food outlets often intentionally geared towards being expedience rather than an experience. This phi¬losophy to eating is often embedded into design of space. Un¬comfortable

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

Consciousness in Animals The conscious mind is a complex thing that has many questions that science is yet to answer. The conscious is composed by awareness and responsiveness in one’s mind, it is expressed by one’s emotions, thoughts, and actions. Consciousness to me is defined by the ability to be aware and responsive. Awareness is an element that distinguishes the conscious from the unconscious. To be aware is to be knowledgeable of your surroundings and to know what is happening in the world

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

instrumentalism which is characteristic of our era, is in fact integral to the very existence, survival, and indeed consciousness of not humankind, but the whole of socio-sentient life. Johnstone, too, argues his point against the devaluation of rhetoric as a discipline, even though his claim runs counter to that of Kennedy: rhetoric, he says, “is the evocation and maintenance of the consciousness required for communication,” a property unique to human beings (21). It would be folly, according to Johnstone

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).

Margaret Neman’s theory health is an essential component of the theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness and is seen as a process of developing awareness of self and the environment together with increasing the ability to perceive alternatives and response in a variety of ways (McEwen, 2014). The theory helps to describe or explain nursing and enables nurses to know why they are doing what they are doing. The theory has six assumptions. Health encompasses condition heretofore described as

that leads to abstract concepts. How perception transitions into cognition is a mystery, but this process, influenced by subjective experience, is consciousness. However, perceptions and senses could oftentimes be false, but the ability to introspect helps one to regain clarity on his or her environment. Thus, one essential condition of human consciousness is that one must be able introspect and have a sense of self. Rene Descartes’ famous “I think, therefore I am” is an example that supports this

Not all of these sorts of stimuli effects correspond to our consciousness. Prinz references numerous empirical studies taking place over the recent decades to support some unconscious perceptions. Unconscious perceptions do not make it past Prinz’s lower level. Lower level perceptions don’t make it past the first filter. The first filter