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Now, in some worldviews, such as ontological materialism, others are seen as mere matter in motion ,and mere physical mechanisms. Other, in term of ontological materialism, is all being with lives which is purely physical. I respectfully reject this view because that not all lives are able to think logically with valuable ideas and behave under ethical criterias. We are able to find reason in other mammals, but critical reflective reason is an emergent property that comes from nature and is mostly developed by human as critical thinkers. Human are special and different from other creatures because people do not only have moral duty to treat “self” and “others” equally based on ethical schema, but also can use critical thinking to develop and …show more content…

Ontological materialist argues that everything is nothing but matter in motion and is purely physical, nature is the reality that form purely based on evolution and all things can be reduced to nothing but physical points. First of all, if this view was true, then numbers, or mathematical formulas, could be reduced into some neurons firing in the human brain. But numbers or mathematical formulas are not “created” by human brains, they are certainly not just biochemical events in organic neurons, because math is found and discovered in nature. For example, human does not have the ability to create the number “2” by just staring at two items. Numbers are arbitrary objects which are provided or given by nature which defined by humans’ intellectual ability. Furthermore, this would imply the false view that mathematical formulas are artifact items and are created by human brain through biochemical events. Numbers are not just physical objects, they are untouchable, unsensible ,and undestroyable. They link human’s critical ideas into the physical world, they are both physical in reality yet have non physical identities. You cannot reduce such dual beings into matter in motion due to their uniqueness. Thus, it is false to argue that all numbers and mathematical formulas can be reduced into nothing but physical point in space-time. Additionally, even though I do agree ideas and consciousness is a result of natural evolution, they are not identical to matter. Thoughts arise from functions of matter, but ideas can return to matter and change matter. The concept of neuron firing is just a pathway of creating different mind, ideas can change the matter which means they can change the brian itself. If ontological materialism were right, then there cannot be illusions in nature. Because illusions can only be held in non-material thoughts/ideas

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According to Descartes there was a clear separation between humans and animals in regards to mind body dualism. He believed that animals were nothing more than simple machines incapable of reason and language. That they lacked a mind unlike humans, who have a sound reasoning mind and mechanical body. -Erica Trujillo 2.)

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Materialism is the idea that everything that exists is material. John Searle is a philosopher who questions if computers can think. Searle believes that both physical things and mental things exist. He believes that there are four mental features of human existence that need to be accounted for, these are consciousness, intentionality, subjectivity and mental causation. Searle has two interesting arguments for materialism.

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The Renaissance was a period of ideological rebirth lasting from the 14th century to the 17th century. Beginning in Florence, Italy, it spread arts, inventions, and creativity all throughout Europe as it began slowly emerging from the Dark Ages. Of course, there had to be a driving force for this movement, and that was an ideological system known as Humanism. Humanism was the belief that a person had full control over who they were, and rejected external control over one’s life. During the Dark Ages, the Roman Catholic Church dictated every aspect of a person’s life, from who they were to what they did.

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What does it mean to be human? A question that has plagued both scientists and philosophers for thousands of years, it has no definitive answer. While humans can be defined as members of the homosapien species, they can also be interpreted as an elite group of self-aware, rational animals. Another frame of reference can be attached to the definition of humans, such as social mammals that possess the capability to reason, use technology, and speak. The quality of a human life is established based on the way one uses their ability to make decisions and judgments as people are intended to make relationships and connections with one another.

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This is where a contradiction is present. While 10 is considered the whole nature of numbers, or the continuous stream of numbers it is a discrete part of the whole, that is then making up the entirety of the whole, or universe. This would mean that numbers make up the unlimited universe and the nature of numbers is condensed in one single unit. 10 was the base of Pythagorean arithmetic. In effect, the claim “the whole nature of numbers” could mean that the essence of ten is the beginning to the unlimited universe.

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A way to argue that the mind is just the brain would be to claim that the mind and brain are connected in some way. Injury or harm to the brain can affect cognitive abilities and personality. Changes in brain chemistry can do the same as well. The reason our minds do not seem physical to us is because we know so little of the processes inside our brains. Materialism is the view that existence is explainable only in material or physical terms, with no regard for or of the spirit and consciousness.

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