Post by ycheng50 on Mar 23, 2016 5:53:45 GMT
TWO REQUIRED ESSAY QUESTIONS: 1. Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness. 2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival? Be sure to support your answers with references to the required readings and films. Each answer should be at least 150 words.
1. Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
To begin the explanation of the entire term, one shall first examine what consciousness really is, and the best definition of consciousness is a way around pure chance by forming an internalized map that can be visualized internally without outside sources; hence, virtual simulation theory of conscious suspects that the world we perceive may be a total illusion. Rene Descartes ever described our world may be as a whole a very sophisticated lie. According to Is the Universe an App, what we sense and feel, and what we view reality are not really based on objective datum but our subjective interpretations. The idea of “reality” is merely a collection of general perceptions.
This virtual world is an analogy to the cyber world where everything is not real, and people are limited in their minds as they are limited by the defined boundaries in cyber world. A quote from textbook “We are stuck within the limits of our subjective universe.” Demonstrates the constraints we confront; nevertheless, since our brains function in a similar manner in creating consciousness, the coincidences help us to adapt to the environment.
2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
The simplest explanation is that our brains trick us by make-believe the things are real when they are not, and in order to bypass our logic, the complex brain is able to fetch necessary evidences in a deceptive way. One can rationalize the intention behind deception is to avoid self-destruction. In addition, human is equipped with the ability to imagine and predict which allows us to plan ahead the vest options before actual actions.
The temperature we perceive might not be the true temperature, but a processed feeling from brain. The perceptions about our surrounding in human are obtained differently from scientific analysis, and another source film, The Disneyland of Consciousness discovers the fact that dreams are the pure products from brain simulations while they render equal reality as we are trapped in dreams.
Consciousness is literally a virtual simulator that has been helpful in our survival, and having this ability perhaps the reason keeps us here today. As a result, the most difficult part is to understand the unnecessity in knowing the true mechanism about universe but how to survive within this virtual world with our blessed ability (Lane 7).
1. Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
To begin the explanation of the entire term, one shall first examine what consciousness really is, and the best definition of consciousness is a way around pure chance by forming an internalized map that can be visualized internally without outside sources; hence, virtual simulation theory of conscious suspects that the world we perceive may be a total illusion. Rene Descartes ever described our world may be as a whole a very sophisticated lie. According to Is the Universe an App, what we sense and feel, and what we view reality are not really based on objective datum but our subjective interpretations. The idea of “reality” is merely a collection of general perceptions.
This virtual world is an analogy to the cyber world where everything is not real, and people are limited in their minds as they are limited by the defined boundaries in cyber world. A quote from textbook “We are stuck within the limits of our subjective universe.” Demonstrates the constraints we confront; nevertheless, since our brains function in a similar manner in creating consciousness, the coincidences help us to adapt to the environment.
2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
The simplest explanation is that our brains trick us by make-believe the things are real when they are not, and in order to bypass our logic, the complex brain is able to fetch necessary evidences in a deceptive way. One can rationalize the intention behind deception is to avoid self-destruction. In addition, human is equipped with the ability to imagine and predict which allows us to plan ahead the vest options before actual actions.
The temperature we perceive might not be the true temperature, but a processed feeling from brain. The perceptions about our surrounding in human are obtained differently from scientific analysis, and another source film, The Disneyland of Consciousness discovers the fact that dreams are the pure products from brain simulations while they render equal reality as we are trapped in dreams.
Consciousness is literally a virtual simulator that has been helpful in our survival, and having this ability perhaps the reason keeps us here today. As a result, the most difficult part is to understand the unnecessity in knowing the true mechanism about universe but how to survive within this virtual world with our blessed ability (Lane 7).
