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Week 4:
How does our brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
As described in the book the cerebral mirage the nine orifices of our body receives incoming data, and how we react depends on the waves and the intensity of the information that impacts us. Our brains are unaware of everything that is really going on. It is really only conscious of the illusory. Our brain can only see a certain set of frequencies that are limited. From this we can see about the world and its purpose. Our genetic survival befits from one’s awareness to keep its body alive. One’s self-reflective awareness is a result of their survival successes. As quoted from the cerebral mirage. “Our brains evolved to neutrally trick us so as to better help us make immediate judgments and future predictions in order to live an extra day” (page 8). Our brains continue to trick us into believing something that is not real in order to give us a survival advantage.
Explain the virtual stimulation theory of consciousness
When dreaming everything comes alive, we react with them as if they were real. When we wake up we realize that everything that has happened in the dream was stimulated by us. It is our own self-awareness that we object ourselves and believe them to be apart from our own neural projections. Our consciousness allows humans to survive. In our imagination we can play out different scenarios to see which one will work out to our advantage. If we were to play out these scenarios in real life we could end up dead. In the film brain burn it states “consciousness is dissociation”. From this it means every deep question is a result of the confusion of our neural system when it is confronted its dissociation. Our consciousness is a virtual stimulator.
Week 5:
Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
Ken Wilber had said that we go under a series of holonic adaptations. In our history we have gone from magical to mythic, to rational and he predicts the next one will be psychic. By this he means that every individual’s private “psychic” space is now being able to be seen by all. This will not just be a problem in the future it is a problem now. With today’s technology, internet, and any other artificial intelligence everyone has access to our personal information. We have all became so attached to our devices that we won’t even leave home without it. Soon it will be physically attached to us. Our need to be connected at all time to technology is also creating a problem. As quoted in the book digital philosophy “to have freedom of associations we have to be free from any singular association that imprisons us within its prefabrications of what is and isn’t acceptable in our shared discourses” (page 4).
How has technology impacted your life?
Technology has changed everyone’s life for good reasons and bad. It has personally affected my life. I do not go anywhere without my iphone. It is always on my person where ever I go. I use it to check how to spell words or research homework or even to check my bank account. Now take away my phone where would I be? I wouldn’t even know. I would have to rely on the library to do research which would make me have to take a side trip out of my day to go. I would also have to do the same to check my bank account. But because of this allow myself to become vulnerable to hackers. Due to social media I also allow everyone into my personal lives. Anyone can access my information with just a click of a button. Even though I know all of this I still wouldn’t give up my technology. I know I’m not the only person who has become so attached to their technology. But what I do wonder is why have we let these devices take control over so much of our daily lives? Is it because it makes everything so convenient? Or have we let society make us believe we need it with all it gadgets? This I do not know but it has defiantly impacted my life.
Week 6:
Why is Faqir Chand’s experience important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand was told by this women that she was drowning when he had came to her and told her that she couldn’t go because she had more work to do. Faqir had no such knowledge of him doing so. In the book The Unknowing Sage it quotes Faqir, “The visions are only because of the impressions and suggestions that a disciple has already accepted in his mind. These impressions and suggestions appear before him like a dream” (page 5). Faqir believed that these visions where from within their temporal world. Though they have no knowledge of these spiritual manifestations. This experience’s of transcendent is the realization of one’s eternal nature. It is all based on an illusory division of the world. These religious visions are ones individual creations. Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understandings the projective nature of religious visions. He stresses that these manifestations where individuals see him are extensions of their imagination.
What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
According to dictionary.com the definition of philosophy is the critical study of the basic principles and concepts of a particular branch of knowledge, especially with a view to improving or reconstituting them. The basis of philosophy is trying to understand the matter behind an object. When further looking into these principles they dissect every aspect of the object. This would be science. In the book The Oceanic Metaphor, he gives an example of a student who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. In the book it states “if we are convinced in the rightness of a theory and how it applies to our own situation, it can liberate us to some degree from our own guilt and our own consternations” (page13). The student took philosophies understanding of virtual stimulation and applied it to how he saw things. It had calmed the student down. His understanding of his behavior and having this breakthrough would be the science of philosophy. When completely breaking down these principles of philosophy it has now turned to science. When philosophy is done poorly these concepts stay the same.
Week 4:
How does our brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
As described in the book the cerebral mirage the nine orifices of our body receives incoming data, and how we react depends on the waves and the intensity of the information that impacts us. Our brains are unaware of everything that is really going on. It is really only conscious of the illusory. Our brain can only see a certain set of frequencies that are limited. From this we can see about the world and its purpose. Our genetic survival befits from one’s awareness to keep its body alive. One’s self-reflective awareness is a result of their survival successes. As quoted from the cerebral mirage. “Our brains evolved to neutrally trick us so as to better help us make immediate judgments and future predictions in order to live an extra day” (page 8). Our brains continue to trick us into believing something that is not real in order to give us a survival advantage.
Explain the virtual stimulation theory of consciousness
When dreaming everything comes alive, we react with them as if they were real. When we wake up we realize that everything that has happened in the dream was stimulated by us. It is our own self-awareness that we object ourselves and believe them to be apart from our own neural projections. Our consciousness allows humans to survive. In our imagination we can play out different scenarios to see which one will work out to our advantage. If we were to play out these scenarios in real life we could end up dead. In the film brain burn it states “consciousness is dissociation”. From this it means every deep question is a result of the confusion of our neural system when it is confronted its dissociation. Our consciousness is a virtual stimulator.
Week 5:
Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future?
Ken Wilber had said that we go under a series of holonic adaptations. In our history we have gone from magical to mythic, to rational and he predicts the next one will be psychic. By this he means that every individual’s private “psychic” space is now being able to be seen by all. This will not just be a problem in the future it is a problem now. With today’s technology, internet, and any other artificial intelligence everyone has access to our personal information. We have all became so attached to our devices that we won’t even leave home without it. Soon it will be physically attached to us. Our need to be connected at all time to technology is also creating a problem. As quoted in the book digital philosophy “to have freedom of associations we have to be free from any singular association that imprisons us within its prefabrications of what is and isn’t acceptable in our shared discourses” (page 4).
How has technology impacted your life?
Technology has changed everyone’s life for good reasons and bad. It has personally affected my life. I do not go anywhere without my iphone. It is always on my person where ever I go. I use it to check how to spell words or research homework or even to check my bank account. Now take away my phone where would I be? I wouldn’t even know. I would have to rely on the library to do research which would make me have to take a side trip out of my day to go. I would also have to do the same to check my bank account. But because of this allow myself to become vulnerable to hackers. Due to social media I also allow everyone into my personal lives. Anyone can access my information with just a click of a button. Even though I know all of this I still wouldn’t give up my technology. I know I’m not the only person who has become so attached to their technology. But what I do wonder is why have we let these devices take control over so much of our daily lives? Is it because it makes everything so convenient? Or have we let society make us believe we need it with all it gadgets? This I do not know but it has defiantly impacted my life.
Week 6:
Why is Faqir Chand’s experience important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand was told by this women that she was drowning when he had came to her and told her that she couldn’t go because she had more work to do. Faqir had no such knowledge of him doing so. In the book The Unknowing Sage it quotes Faqir, “The visions are only because of the impressions and suggestions that a disciple has already accepted in his mind. These impressions and suggestions appear before him like a dream” (page 5). Faqir believed that these visions where from within their temporal world. Though they have no knowledge of these spiritual manifestations. This experience’s of transcendent is the realization of one’s eternal nature. It is all based on an illusory division of the world. These religious visions are ones individual creations. Faqir Chand’s experiences are important in understandings the projective nature of religious visions. He stresses that these manifestations where individuals see him are extensions of their imagination.
What is meant by the phrase, “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy.”
According to dictionary.com the definition of philosophy is the critical study of the basic principles and concepts of a particular branch of knowledge, especially with a view to improving or reconstituting them. The basis of philosophy is trying to understand the matter behind an object. When further looking into these principles they dissect every aspect of the object. This would be science. In the book The Oceanic Metaphor, he gives an example of a student who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. In the book it states “if we are convinced in the rightness of a theory and how it applies to our own situation, it can liberate us to some degree from our own guilt and our own consternations” (page13). The student took philosophies understanding of virtual stimulation and applied it to how he saw things. It had calmed the student down. His understanding of his behavior and having this breakthrough would be the science of philosophy. When completely breaking down these principles of philosophy it has now turned to science. When philosophy is done poorly these concepts stay the same.