Steven Pinker's Interview

Evolutionary psychology is the study of the mind. In evolutionary psychology everything is adaptive and is the universal study of human nature. When listening to the interview with Steven Pinker is what all very interesting what he was saying about the behavior of humans. as he was giving examples of the different ways I find this more interesting then all of the other psychology's being study. Evolutionary psychology seems to be more of a examining type of psychology on how we behave for different situations and our body language towards things make us uncomfortable. When he started talking about fantasizing, it made more sense to me on how we humans work. We do things a lot of the time because it's pleasurable even when we know it's wrong but we keep doing it because we fantasize about it.

I agree with everything he said. We are fascinated by a lot of things in the world but a lot of them are the wrong and sinful things to do. With evolutionary psychology many things adapt quite well and human nature is the most talked about subject when it comes down it. Humans are very interesting especially when it comes down to how we came to be through evolution and how we obtained the behaviors we have today.

A Glorious Piece of Meat

Watching this movie it was interesting because it explains that we feel like we run the show but in all reality we don't. We don't digest our food on our own or we don't beat our heart on our own either. So really how do we know if we really run the show. When it comes down to it we really don't. Our brain for the most part run everything, it sends a message to our muscle let's say our hand to help type this post or if we have an itch it sends a message to our hand to scratch whatever it is. Everything is we do is done with our brain. You can say our brain is what helps us do things and understand things as well as it helps us with our five senses.

I do believe our brain is what allows us to move and think. Our brain is the most powerful tool I think because it lets us think and learn many different things. It allows us to think for ourselves and have our own opinions for everything we learn or teach others. A quote that Francis Crick said makes a lot of sense when it comes to thinking. It was, " What we take to be the soul is nothing more than a complex network of neurons." Even though I don't agree with him that we don't have souls, this quote can be towards thinking and I agree with it.

IS MY I-PHONE CONSCIOUS?

While reading this booklet it was very interesting because I would have never thought of such a question being asked whether or a i-phone is aware or not. When reading all of it, it came down to reading the part about the sound grenade. Which apparently is a really annoying sound that some cannot hear. Which brings up the question if someone with no conscious can understand one who is conscious? This question is very tricky because there are some people who can hear things that others can't and some who can't understand what is going on other's can.

To me this is something that has always caught my interest because I have heard of this happening but could never understand why. When reading this booklet it made a little sense because it's just how we look at things or understand things. I just always wondered why people go through this and if I were a part of it too because I always felt like it would be really cool to be a part of something like that. To not be able to hear things like the grenade on an i-phone is very interesting because a lot of people can hear that annoying noise.

Ken Wilber's Theory

Ken Wilber's theory on consciousness is very understandable. He believes there are four quadrant's and each has a purpose for our consciousness. He explains the four different quadrants and what they are. Intentional, behavioral, cultural, and social, these are all a part of the brain Wilber says and both upper and lower right are the "right hand". He explains what holon is and the way he explains is somewhat confusing but once you read it through it makes more sense. The definition is a whole that is simultaneously part of some other whole. The way he explains what the upper right quadrant, lower right quadrant, upper left quadrant, and lower left quadrant are makes sense because each part has their own way of working for the brain.

I agree that we have four quadrants that allow us to do things in certain ways. Just like the left side of our brain controls the right side of our body and the right side of our brain controls the left side of our body. This has been proven through science and physics so I do believe the way wilber explains his theory is understandable and thorough. In addition, just like everyone has different fingerprint which is also will connect with our brain's developing. 

Francis Crick

Francis Crick to me is somewhat out there. I don't agree with what he says about us humans not having a soul. I just cannot grasp the idea that we are just a complex network of neurons, as he calls it, and the fact that we have no spiritual self is kind of not what I believe is so true. I do believe we have a soul because how is it that we have a conscious or we are able to think on our own? I have always believe that we do have a soul and it departs from us when pass onto the next life. 

Free will he believes it is located in the brain. When it comes to free will I think it's just like having a soul because it gives the consciousness of what is right and wrong, your personality and identity. You can voice your opinion on whether you agree with something or not. The idea of a man has no soul is absurd to me because how would we understand things, learn things, and control what we do? I believe we have souls and as for free will I can say that it gives us knowledge of what right and wrong is.

consciousness

I'm so curious how people consciously feel things in a different way that other people do. Sometimes, in a same situation, my feeling or description will totally different from other people. That's all about individual consciousness. We can't expect others have the same consciousness with us. Just like we can't copy others fingerprint. 

I have an idea want to share is one of the many facets of why Christ came was so that we could have the experience of finally losing the self-consciousness that descended upon us in Eden when passivity and rebellion stained us.  We can now return to God-conscience as the man did while conversing as he walked with God in the cool of the day. However, in pre-fallen Adam, the God-consciousness was as a creature only.  But in Jesus it is in son ship, adopted, rescued and paid for by that same God himself entering in and drinking a bitter cup to the bottom.  And now, with the veil ripped, our God-consciousness must completely overthrow and crush self-consciousness.   Just as self-consciousness diminishes when a person becomes drunk on spirits, so too our self-consciousness becomes eclipsed when the will bends perfectly to the Spirit of Holiness just as Jesus described to Nicodemus about those being like the wind who are born of the Spirit.   You lose your “you” and I lose my “me” until such references are merely incidental to the great truth that He is all, and all that really matters of who I am in this world.

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