Understanding the human consciousness

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

10 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

09/14/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Psychology

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Summary :

Introduction
Existence of animal existence
1. Lack of thinking ability of animals
2. The 'conscience' animal is comparable to the one of man?
The specificity of human consciousness
1. The discovery of the cogito
2. Cartesian dualism
Consciousness can it be defined solely from brain activity?
1. The study of brain lessions
2. Consciousness beyond the brain activity
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

human consciousness can be apprehended only from within as a concrete experience constantly present in all of us, it is not yet possible to give an objective definition. This is not something outside us that we can identify and analyze in neutrality, it necessarily refers us to a subjective experience of the most obvious and immediate. The etymology of the Latin word scientia cum means "with knowledge" that underscores the ability of the human mind that I am, if not always, at least in most cases this myself and my activities when I think and act.

But is that enough to make consciousness a characteristic of the man? Animals show through their behavior, that they are also experiencing this self-presence and the world. Do not they have an immediate awareness of what happens in them and off them with feelings and perceptions? The contemporary ethnologists do not question the existence of intelligence and a form of animal subjectivity. Should we really say that we can put on the same level of human consciousness and animal? The reflection is it not the hallmark of human consciousness?