Environmental consciousness

This essay is to describe Sigmund Freud’s and Carl Rogers’ differing concepts of human psychology concerning determinism. Freud is known to be a determinist. This means that he believes that humans don’t have free will, that there are forces beyond the individuals control which control their actions and underlying reasons behind behaviours. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/). Rogers is known as a non-determinist. This is the belief that humans have free will, that they control

Roger’s; congruence, empathy, and unconditional positive regard (UPR). The emphasis is on providing these conditions to oneself through mindfulness-based practice. The main aim is to be fully and unconditionally present with all that is in your consciousness as it occurs. It is apparent that PCT and mindfulness complement each other so introducing mindfulness into the therapeutic process is not so far removed from what occurs already in

of the mind. The conditions of the mind, which I believe are the perceiver par excellence, change the natural phenomena into something which can be understood in the mind itself, this understanding encapsulated in the mind, is what I take to be consciousness. This change does not diminish or embellish the natural phenomena in itself. For the change does not take place within the natural phenomena, rather the change takes place within the perceiver. The perceiver sees this natural phenomena, or qualia

supported by arguments like the completeness of physics (Papineau, 2001) –among others- and empirical research is with the physicalist approach. However, one of the problems with physicalism is its reductivism. For example, there is the claim that consciousness is no more than a brain process (Smart, 1959); however, the problem of these reductive approaches is to find the physical process or the physical laws that can explain the mental in those terms. There are strong arguments against such reduction:

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

Considered one of American’s foremost feminist authors, Kate Chopin addresses issues challenging to the social and gender roles of the late 1800s. She celebrates women who seek their own identity and focuses on individual journeys of self-discovery. Her short story “The Story of an Hour” has a unique structure in that it adheres to a realistic premise, yet contains a protagonist who represents idealism. Faced with the news that her husband has died, Mrs. Mallard takes ownership of her own emotions

Functionalism is the belief that every type of mental state is identical to a certain type of functional state. According to functionalism, your mind is a computer program and your body is what runs the computer program. According to this theory, there is no sophisticated nature of the mind as presented in identity theory but the mind in itself has been reduced to being a system that realizes computational states. As a result, the mind body problem has been reduced to the body being a short of machine

is known to believe in his theory of personal identity and diversity. Locke’s theory talks about consciousness and how our consciousness makes our identity through our experiences. Locke states that we are only considered guilty of committing a crime if we were aware of it and remember doing it. Although I agree with Locke in some terms regarding our identity having something to do with our consciousness, I do not fully agree. I believe that personal identity is what we see ourselves as whether that

Every time that you see a billboard while driving down the road, a commercial during your favorite regularly scheduled programing, or even advertisements that pop up while you are surfing the web; you are unconsciously being bombarded by subliminal advertisements and there is a good chance that you have never even noticed. Subliminal stimuli are found in numerous arrangements, and effects, which lead to your subconscious taking in many of the subliminal advertising tactics that marketers use; and

remarks and thoughts upon the subject matter. Fichte was an idealist. This is the belief that nothing is known to us except ideas. Since this was the belief of Fichte he avoided dualism and instead believed that only that which is in and for consciousness can be assumed to exist. Fichte thus proceeded to explain experience as the product of intelligence in itself. This idea of intelligence in itself is the ego. To understand this further we must “think the wall”, once you think the wall then