Hard determinism only clouds the mind if we are enslaved to thinking we are free, then those who believe that they have no control over life are going through life making decisions based on what they perceive as pre-determined. ... If minds were pre-programmed there would be no need for school and no need for learning how to read and write. ... For example we all know a stove is hot because most of us have had our hands burned on one, not because our mind miraculously told us before we touched it as a toddler. ... That is what defines free will, the ability to question. ... It would also seem...

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We know this because ever since childhood, we have been trained by society to limit our perceptions. ... Very few prisoners, like the freed prisoner, see that it is not untruth, but something else. ... When the freed prisoner finally becomes accustomed to light and is able to see reality, he understands that he is not a shadow and neither were the other prisoners. e realizes that his life before in the cave was horrible. ... The prisoners were only looking at the shadows of reality. ... It was his belief that we are all under false notions of what we perceive to be truth. ...

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Plato's point is that we give names to the actual objects that we see, but really they're the names of the things we can't really see. ... The sun was the enlightenment of the freed prisoner. ... There is always that time before finally reaching it where the person will have to understand all the terms in the definition and can support each one of them. ... He shows that we must all start at the lowest stage and work towards the higher stages. ... He gives information on all things that people could have questions about such as, where the shadows in the cave were coming from a...

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During the whole experiment people's brain was scanned and the results were fascinating. ... So it turns out that the brain is making the decisions before we even realize that. ... We should send that person to the jail before he killed someone? ... After all can we really claim that we have a free will? Who are we?...

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Reading the first part of the books, I can say that it is linked because form the first part we can see that she as not as free as us children now, she is confined it Stamps because when eventually she does leave, the most horrible things happen to her. ... However, this is rational because as we see how the three girls who were mimicking and mocking "Momma" this made Maya really frustrated so we know why she feels the way she feels. I think she chose to write a memoir because of the bad memories she had and could not tell anyone, as we already found out that she was silent for quite a wh...

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How do we really say that the world that we live in is "real?" ... Pierre Simon de Laplace wrote: "An intellect which at any given moment know all the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that comprise it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis, it could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom: for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain, and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.... How can we say that this world that we live in is...

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In the book, the characters are so out of touch with society, and life they did not know that their everyday lives were being censored. The temperature 451 degrees Fahrenheit for Bradbury, is the temperature at which books burn, but other authors interpreted as the temperature at which freedom burns (Smolla), just like their books, their freedom, knowledge and, open mindedness were being burned right before their eyes. ... In Fahrenheit 451 it is believed that censoring makes things simply but, One of the profound insights of Fahrenheit 451 is that we decline in our humanity when we mistake t...

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Disagreements with Blake's and Shelley's views on Human Society This whole year we have been talking about authors of the past. ... Well first of all they were brilliant authors who mastered the English language. ... Before this class I never thought that poems "meant" something but I've heard so much new stuff about poems and that they have a meaning. ... He seems like a super anarchist who hates the world he lives in and thinks that the world would be so much better if everyone could be free and do whatever he or she wanted. ... I think the thing he was trying to sho...

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Freud argued that parapraxes were those things which were commonly referred to as mistakes, but were actually the manifestation of subconscious truths and intentions. There are many different types of parapraxes, but the type we are most familiar with are misspeakings, or slips of the tongue. ... Things that are said cannot be taken back, I think that patients and people in general subconsciously see it as an opportunity to free themselves of a burden. ... Putting the milk away before I even use it or having to stand and back track in my mind what "I came here for" is common place. ...

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It can only be temporarily hidden, until the right situation comes around and sets it free. ... Piggy and Simon were both killed by the boys on the island and Ralph was hunted as well, but was luckily saved before death. ... They were not really afraid of a creature. They were afraid of themselves. ... When we are forced to rely on our instincts, the good is forgotten and the evil is revealed. ...

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If every answer were to be given to society on a silver platter then there would be nothing but mindless drones wondering around and every one making the right decision. Even though humans would still have free will to decide if they truly knew and understood the reason for all that is in the world then we would live in a perfect society. ... This is understandable because though at one time unicorns could have roamed the earth it is hard to prove they did the only possible way is that they were before the flood, and literally missed the boat. ...

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As stated before, few can break the chains and escape the cave. ... Those who are lucky enough to have found true reality while on Earth were the exception. ... In a sense we break free from our physical forms and now are an essence that is free to explore new worlds. ... Plato's two worlds: the dark, the cave, and the bright were his way of rejecting the Sophists, who found "true knowledge" impossible because of constant change. ... But thinking still doesn't give us all the information we want and we still ask "why?" ...

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Li begins to set the mood of this scene early in the morning even before the sun rises into the sky, "awake at dawn," with aromatic fragrances pertaining to the smell of her long coiled hair. ... We will assume the speaker is male for now, because many arguments can be made on either side. He seems to wake up before the sun can rise into the sky. ... This poem holds the human desires that a person can often experience and the emotions present as if it were a dream. ... They free the world of this ghost writer's mind. ...

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Instead of thinking about the impending hanging, he concentrates on freeing his hands and throwing away his noose during his fantastical escape. ... This technique creates the crux's significance before the main quote. ... This crux illustrates the turning point in the story for Farquhar's point of view because it is the last time we see him addressing the reality of the situation before him. ... As we return to the scene of the hanging, Farquhar is completely consumed by his internal fantasies. ... The crux most clearly recognized in the quote, "As these thoughts, which have to be ...

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As soon as I hear the phrase "we are going out of town" from her, the only idea that appears in my mind is par-ty. ... A theme takes away the usual awkward feeling at parties, and replaces them with a stress-free attitude. ... Having everything organized before the party starts, will prevent theft and a harsh clean up. Always before a party I looked throughout my house for my parents" good quality things and hide them. Although most of the people attending my party were my closer friends, you never know who will come and sneak in. ...

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As we gaze over time the developments and discoveries of great people can be seen and remembered. ... It would be like a world of robots, and if this were the case, what would be the point of life? For after all it is "Only with their dreams can men be truly free, thus it is and thus will always be." Basically meaning what is the point of living always knowing the events of the day before they occur, as well as a solid implication to the point, that life without aspirations, is not life at all. ... We must be thankful that in this day and age organizations such as the church, for the most ...

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Alan Turing, a mathematician, said that if we cannot distinguish between the answers a computer gives to questions and the answers a human being gives, then the compute has a mind. ... Computers were invented by human beings, humans who are not perfect and not all knowing. ... Computers lack the free will to think and make decisions by themselves, they do what they are programmed to do. ... The outputs that we get from computers will not be the same as humans on every level as they lack emotional value. ... Humans keep under consideration all of such things before they can go any further w...

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I found myself wandering around the bleachers at the state track meet an hour before I had to run. ... First there was silence, and all at once in a fraction of a second, "bang," we were off like hungry cheetahs after a speedy gazelle. The only thought that came to my mind were the words of my dad, "Go out fast and go out hard.... The roars of the crowd were nothing more than a dull buzz and adrenaline directly to my veins. ... As I managed to get up from the track I stumbled over to the infield where I promptly let the lunch I was holding down free. ...

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He explores the tunnel, which he escaped to, to see what no brother has seen before him and wants to learn more about his surroundings. ... Laws were created so that men had no vote in any event, and were banned to have ideas so that the government would always have control over the people. ... All these actions were in attempt to become free from the chains from the government that bound him. " If this is great evil of being alone, then what is good and what is evil."... He learned to drop the word "we" out his vocabulary completely when concerning him and his brothers. ... "We have broken th...

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We see that Macbeth does not want to kill Duncan because he is afraid of being caught. ... Lady Macbeth tells her husband, "When durst do it, then you were a man; / And to be much more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man" (I.vii.56-58). ... Lady Macbeth is now afraid of the dark because all the crimes that were committed were done in the dark. ... The thought of killing Duncan entered Macbeth's mind before he spoke to his wife. ... Macbeth chooses to kill Duncan, it was his own free will. ...

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