1. Consilience
Computers Can Never Think. To form an opinion on computers and thinking, I think it is important to first form an opinion on thinking itself. Now many people may feel that thinking is merely scientific - the application of facts and figures. I disagree; and therefore went to my dictionary to s...
Descartes suggested that it was possible to perform significant tests, calculate correlations and other quantitative analysis of psychological parameters differently from disciplines like physics. ... Unlike other sciences like physics, these parameters do not need to be physical indicators which could be measured. ...
This universe would be someone else's virtual reality; physics would be the rules set on this universe for order, and we would be the system's artificial intelligence. ... No one can be certain, unless someone appears on this dimension and frees mankind from what may be eternal illusion, or until we find a "loophole" or a "bug" probably in a form of something that will defy every known law of physics, then the Hypothesis of Universal Unreality would be proven true. ...
The mind-body problem is one that entails many different theories. The dilemma revolves around the difficulty of explaining how the mental activities of human beings relate to their living physical activities. There are some who go about solving this by stating that the mind and body do not operate ...
Gestalt Psychology Today By Wolfgang KÖhler In this piece Kohler talks about certain schools of psychology (Especially Behaviorism) and other sciences, while talking about the new theories in Gestalt psychology. He begins by talking about the history of Gestalt psychology and mentions how s...
"Sophie's World," by Jostein Gaarder, is a fictional mystery philosophy novel that narrates the history of philosophy through someone named Albert Knag who is writing a book for his daughter, Hilde Moller Knag, for her fifteenth birthday. The book Albert Knag wrote is about a man named Alberto Knox ...
Rene Descartes was born in La Haye, Touraine (France) in March of fifteen ninety-six. During the course of his life, he made many significant contributions to the progress of science, because of these achievements, he is known as the father of modern philosophy. He was a distinguished physicist, phy...
Representative Realism John Locke thought that the ideas or perceptions which we have of objects in the external world partially represent the objects as they are in themselves, and so whether they are being perceived or not. This view of Locke's is called representative realism. The term "realis...
Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. His argument is that the body is divisible because it can be physically altered like being cut in half. His belief is that the ...
REFLECTION PAPER I Contrary to contemporary thought a skeptic need not necessarily be a negative person. In fact Rene Descartes believes a negative thinking person is the polar opposite of a skeptic, opinions expressed in the negative would lead Descartes to dismiss such person fro...
Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. His argument is that the body is divisible because it can be physically altered like being cut in half. His belief is that ...
Romans Did and Greeks Thought Life's milestones have been passed through generations and to different cultures since the beginning of time. From the start, people have been able to put their minds together to come up with new and easier ways to do daily activities. These brilliant and deter...