Class consciousness

Since the inception of psychology in the United States by American philosopher William James, in the early 1900’s learning and psychology has been joined hand in hand together ever since. Well into the beginning of the twentieth century, learning and education has been monitored closely and connected to psychologists. According to (Domjan, 2014) Learning is one of our most primitive and basic biological mental processes that facilitates our need for survival and promotes personal well-being.…

were deeply consumed by the societal and artistic pressures of the Romantic period. Poets during this time were faced with the intense pressure of meeting the Romantic ideal of the “creative genius” as they were plagued with a self-paralysing consciousness. These pressures halted their conscious creative ability and influenced their artistic vision, consequently jeopardising the quality of their work. When looking at the Poet and their art form, it is interesting to explore the intermediate…

In his essay “What Faith Is”, philosophical theologian Paul Tillich discusses humans and their “ultimate concerns”. These concerns demand a person’s whole being and life, requiring total surrender in order to achieve total fulfillment. They are acts of personality, centered by the human mind, both conscious and unconscious. A true ultimate concern involves the self, whereas a false concern involves an object. Considering Tillich’s definition, I find that there are several values and lessons that…

The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the web as a substitute for personal memory, bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.” Throughout history technology has changed the way people see the world. As the internet is becoming more and more demanding and our primary source for information, it is also affecting our ability to read any sort of medium. In Carr’s article “Is Google making…

Humans are creatures of habit. They pick the same route, go to the same places, and perform daily tasks in an almost ritualistic manner. As a result, they see and hear the same things every day, which is considered the environment. The environment is the external surroundings that a person is placed in. When the brain is exposed to the same environment constantly, the conscious mind starts to acknowledge the presence less and less. Eventually, the unconscious mind takes over, resulting in “the…

Sensation is a large part of self-identification. It is what allows for experience and perception. Without the ability to sense, one would feel disembodied, and estranged from their own person. There are five commonly referred to sensory modalities, which include; vision, audition, haptics, gustation and olfaction. However there is another sense, a “secret sense” which is so automatic it often goes unnoticed. Thus many don’t realize the importance of such a sense in understanding one’s reality…

Nagel gives us the idea that there is a consciousness in most living things, and that this is not reducible to physical characteristics. In “What is it like it be a bat?”, Nagel identifies that each organism has ‘something that it is like to be that organism’, otherwise known as the ‘subjective character’…

(DM), due to its limitless capacity and ability to integrate vast amounts of information; while the conscious mind has a limited capacity and is more subjectively driven by expectancies and schemas; lacking characteristics needed for optimal DM. Consciousness is defined as a mental state which surrounds awareness; with unconsciousness being a reasoning occurring while conscious attention is allocated elsewhere (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006). Two of the most popular studies in implicit DM have…

evidence that they do have minds. Therefore, the language test does not prove that animals are non-rational creatures or that they lack consciousness as Descartes suggests. The absence of speech, Descartes reasons, can only be explained in terms of animals lacking what speech expresses—thought. From this, he concludes that animals also lack all forms of consciousness, since, for Descartes, thought is the very object of conscious…

Gloria Yamato in her article entitled, "Something about the subject makes it hard to name", calls out the white readers to look at their social status with a magnifying class and recognize what others see as "internalized racism". Yamota ties this thought to the conscious mind by creating three buckets or racism which are; Aware, Covert and Unaware racism (Yamato 2004). Aware racism assumes that the person is conditioned…