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the belief that low level physiological needs are more compelling in relation to behavior than higher level psychological needs, w...

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

By the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century science achieved what is now often referred to in retros...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...

function and neurotransmitters (Benson, 2001). For example, Elbogen et al (2004) note how violent behavior such as hostility and ...

fear and anxiety, as well as "a sense of well-being and decreased isolation" (Trombley et al, 2003, p. 92). Ernst (2005) points t...

say that empirical scientific methodology is not appropriate for the study of faith-based religious belief). Anomalous monism stat...

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

beautiful, graceful Tai Chi movements (McMullen, n.d.). Tai Chi in general is thought to be a physical practice because there is t...

a day of nothing but McDonalds food. It was a matter of a few days before Spurlock began to realize a tangible change to his expa...

In five pages this research paper examines the correlation between the mind and body within the context of Dr. Thomas S. Szasz's T...

In five pages this paper discusses how 'modern' man's ailments of the spirit, body, and mind can be cured by the beliefs contained...

In five pages this paper argues that Victor Frankenstein steadfastly refuses to feel any type of guilt or regret regarding his sci...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

-- that is, our need to rise above ourselves in order to see and respond to others needs. Listening to the body helps us to know ...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...