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Question posted on May 15, 2013; 1 response
It is known that our thoughts are energy and originate from the mind. Our mind and thoughts are seperate from our brains and our physical body. So my question is what keeps the whole unit together, what's keeps our thoughts...
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Question posted on May 9, 2013; 1 response
Is it a common view among philosophers that human beings are simply biological computers? Doesn't this view reduce philosophy of mind to solely neuroscience?...
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Question posted on April 25, 2013; no responses
I am a Secondary teacher teaching a topic called 'Reason and Experience', where we look at Locke's view that the mind is a tabula rasa. What I've ended up teaching seems a bit contradictory, as sometimes Locke seems to...
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Question posted on April 4, 2013; 1 response
Are we responsible for forgetting things? It certainly doesn't seem like it, since we don't seem to have control over what we forget, but we are often held to the standard of always remembering all pertinent facts....
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Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
Is the relation of the mind to the brain analogous in some way to the relationship between a magnetic field and a magnet? I have in mind the way in which a magnetic field clearly depends on the physical...
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Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
Are dreams an instance of the imagination, hallucination or something else? ...
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Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
Is Searle's 'chinese room' internally consistent? Does it not presuppose an agent who can understand the manipulation of symbols? If so, why not conceptualize our consciousness analogously to a computer's more fundamental structures bestowing it the capacity to 'run' softwares?...
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Question posted on March 21, 2013; 2 responses
When I look at the room I'm sitting in, I am consciously aware of it as existing outside my body and head. So, for example, I can walk towards the opposite wall and I appear to get closer to it...
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Question posted on March 21, 2013; 2 responses
Can a thing being distinct from something else be considered a property of that thing? (If my mind is distinct from my body can "being distinct from my body" be considered a property of my mind. It seems to...
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Question posted on March 7, 2013; 1 response
I hope this makes sense... I've always been curious about attempts to understand the way our minds work. To me, it seems paradoxical and in some ways even hopeless. I suspect that in order for the mind to understand or...
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Question posted on March 7, 2013; 2 responses
If we assume that both computers and the human mind are merely physical, does it follow that a sufficiently advanced computer could do anything that a human brain could do?...
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Question posted on February 21, 2013; 1 response
Are there any philosophers that affirm the substantiality of consciousness without either falling into dualism or property dualism? I personally think that mind is a genuine reality but I'm not so certain that it is a substance in the sense...
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Question posted on January 31, 2013; 1 response
I hope this question doesn't conflict with the ''don't ask questions that are too general'' in the guidelines, but I have a question that I think goes under analytical philosophy, if I am not wrong, that I can't seem to...
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Question posted on January 2, 2013; 1 response
In philosophy there's supposed to be a "problem of other minds". But sometimes our own minds are problems. Is it possible for others, say my friends and family, to know me "better" than I know myself? Might I...
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Question posted on December 6, 2012; 1 response
If I "zoom out" for a moment, then any deliberations I'm making (well, really any thoughts at all that I'm having) seem like part of a process to which I am just an observer. It is certainly true that these...
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Question posted on December 6, 2012; 1 response
Throughout life, we all have fantasies, from childhood fantasies of being rock star/doctors/astronauts, to "adult" fantasies of wealth, fame and power. These "adult fantasies", including, but not limited to, images of wealth, power, lust, power, status, and/or self-actualization, are seemingly...
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Question posted on November 17, 2012; 1 response
I am writing a book dealing with Alzheimer’s disease for young people. The protagonist, a boy in the 8th grade, is grappling with his grandmother’s progressing AD. I would be interested on your thoughts about identity/mind and...
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Question posted on October 18, 2012; 1 response
What is imagination? How an explanation of the imagination? Is it true that a person's imagination comes from experience and knowledge of one's own. Is it possible to imagine beyond the limits of our own thinking? If possible how? what...
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Question posted on August 9, 2012; 1 response
is Jungs' theory of synchronicity simply nonsense? I can make neither head nor tail of it. It is often quoted by 'new agers' as sign that we are all in a way "connected" (i.e networks for a higher consciousness, etc)...
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Question posted on July 26, 2012; 1 response
Suppose a computer is trying to execute some code or another, but hasn't done so yet (for example, it is waiting for a given signal, or for a certain period of time to elapse). Does the computer intend to execute that...
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