Body and Mind- Blog 2

I have decided that throughout this course I'm choosing to question the body and mind correlation. How is it that you body is made up of and works on a totally different composition than your mind? The body and mind are like apples and oranges, they are both fruit, but two different taste and appearances. How is it that we can have unconscious thought and our body will never be affect by it? How is it that we can have a missing limb but still feel it? Or, we can take that a piece of our brain out correlating to a limb that is still intact and not be able to feel that limb any longer. How do we know that what one person perceives is the same as another, or even what's true to be perceived? If two people get burnt with the same exact object, do they feel the same thing? If the body and mind are similar and function the same amongst everyone, why are sensations and perceptions different between people? Two people can see the same car accident and
give two totally different accident reports to the police, why? Then later when asked to recall their story may even give a whole new story than before.

Dualistic Views
*Interactionism- beliefs and desires casually interact with physical state (Wikipedia)
*Occasionalism- contention that everything is devoid of causal efficacy and that God is the only truly causal agent (Philosophy of Mind)
*Psychophysical Parallelism- This view retains both the dualism of mind and body and the notion of a regular correlation between mental and physical events, but avoids any assumption of causal mind/body connection, direct or indirect (Serendip)


http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/mindbody.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/17th.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)

Is Mind Distinct from Body?- Blog 3

This video is part one of three parts about the body and mind question. Once you get past the first few minutes it become interesting and talks about the philosopher Descartes.

Personal Idenity- Blog 1

Personal Identity refers to the essence of a self conscious person, that which makes him or her uniquely what they are at any one point in time, and which further persists over time despite superficial modifications, making him or her same person at different points in time also (Wikipedia). I feel that this is a very important subject to question. I have to live with myself for the rest of my life and I feel that knowing me completely will only make my life easier. If I go through life not knowing who I really am and what my purpose is supposed to be, I am cheating myself from a fulfilled, complete life.

Body and Mind- Blog 1

I am intrigued that there is a question about how your body and mind work together. People have studied the body and how it works, and the brain and how it works, but no one knows how the brain actually works in relation to the body. Some people ask how it can be possible for conscious experience arise out of a lump of gray matter endowed with nothing but electrochemical properties (Wikipedia). Also, your brain controls everything you do, consciously or unconsciously, so why wouldn’t I want to know more about how it’s controlling me?

Philosophy of Love Video

Philosophy... . ..

My Life Philosophy: -Everything Happen for a Reason, everything including: -Behavior -Rewards/Punishments -Morals/Values -Karma

*To learn and be knowledgeable is the one thing in life that is infinite and accessible to anyone and I believe is the key to happiness.