In order to earn the maximum number of points- you need to follow this instruction sheet as closely as possible. The point on plagiarism is especially important: Committing plagiarism, whether copying word-for-word from the internet or any other source, can result in a flat F for the course, and your information will be sent to the administration for disciplinary measures.
Consider the question I asked you at the very beginning of the course. Which of these two sentences would you agree with more: “I have a body,” or “I am a body”?
To say “I have a body” is to affirm that you are more than just a body; that you are some kind of soul or non-material substance (Descartes’ res cogito or “thinking thing”) which inhabits your body like a person driving a car.
To say “I am a body” is claim the opposite, namely that you are a fundamentally biological being through and through, and that your thoughts and feelings are expressions of, or are simply another label for, the chemical reactions in your brain and nervous system.
The course is now coming to a close, and we have examined a wide range of topics with relevance for this fundamental distinction. These include the mind-body problem, materialism and the knowledge argument, the possibility of Artificial Intelligence, free will verses determinism, the concepts of emergentism and panpsychism, the question of personal identity (“what am I?”), nature verses nurture, Darwin verses Alfred Russel Wallace on the human brain, the meaning of dreams, the reality of mental illness (and Thomas Szasz’s argument against the very notion of mental disease), the nature of spiritual and religious experience, and animal consciousness.
Your mission is to answer, in as much detail as possible, the following question: Which of those two sentences would you affirm for yourself?
And more, your answer should include the following things:
If your position has changed over the course of the quarter, explain why! What made you change? And if your position has not changed over the course of the quarter, also explain why. Why do you still hold on to the beliefs you had prior to the beginning of the quarter?
Somewhere in your answer, include both a definition and discussion of the mind-body problem!
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