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Leobelo jofel delicana: the human mind is something both beautiful and mysterious. He says the movie "the island" became an eye-opener for him to appreciate the human person's capabilities of consciousness, awareness and rationality. What the human person experiences, most if not all the time, becomes his notion of what is real.
Leobelo jofel delicana: the human mind is something both beautiful and mysterious. He says the movie "the island" became an eye-opener for him to appreciate the human person's capabilities of consciousness, awareness and rationality. What the human person experiences, most if not all the time, becomes his notion of what is real.
Leobelo jofel delicana: the human mind is something both beautiful and mysterious. He says the movie "the island" became an eye-opener for him to appreciate the human person's capabilities of consciousness, awareness and rationality. What the human person experiences, most if not all the time, becomes his notion of what is real.
Conscious and Capable of Knowing (An Epistemological Reflection about the movie The Island) The human mind is something both beautiful and mysterious. The human thinking, according to scientists, is made up of electrical impulses and signals. Yes they could say what it is. However, it does not suffice for the chain of questions regarding hows and whys. Still, there is beauty in that complex and mysterious essence of the human mind. The very fact that I, a human person, is now consciously reflecting about my consciousness and knowing, proves that somewhere within the laws of science lies the fact that the human person and human mind, are true and real entities of this vast universe. After watching the science-fiction movie entitled The Island I was able to ponder more deeply into epistemological questions regarding the human person. What is it that makes the human person human? I was able to ask this question because the theme of the movie is about genetic engineering particularly human cloning. How is it that beings with such predetermined essences, beings who are made for a purpose were able to question their existence? How was the character of Lincoln Six Echo, who is a clone, able to wonder and understand certain experiences after being in contact with it? My answer was that the human person is conscious and capable of knowing. There was a line delivered by the character named Lincoln which caught my attention, he said: I wish there were more [answers]. This I believe has some truth in it especially to the nature of the human mind- inquisitive. The movie became an eye-opener for me to really appreciate the human persons capabilities of consciousness, awareness and rationality. In the movie, the character may not be a human person in the strict sense of the word. However, they were fashioned and taught in a way that humans also learn. But how is it that the human person learns? Why are we conscious of the fact that we are learning? Again, we are confronted by a barrage of chain epistemological questions. What the human person experiences, most if not all of the time, becomes his notion of what is real. In short, the things s/he experiences is what is real. In the movie, the Clones within the vicinity of the institution, not being able to see the outside world thought that theirs was the true one. They have been brainwashed that the world outside was in the state of contamination and they were the ones who survived. However, the truth (only in the movie) is that they were clones who were raised for the purpose of organ replacements and other biological processes such as bearing a child. However, because of curiosity and wonder (and I would say philosophizing) the character of Lincoln Six Echo was able to find evidences that there is another truth, that there is a world outside the vicinity of the institution. The experiences and the evidences they provided became the basis for Lincoln to give a judgment that there is really an outside world. In reality of the human experience, I believe it is similar. Yes, the human mind plays a role in the processing of concepts from experiences into judging. However, one cannot deny that the object of experiences which possess their own intrinsic qualities, are also necessary in the process of knowing as a conscious act. One cannot simply say that the world is what we perceive it (such that of subjectivism and nave realism). Also, it is not that: it is only the object that presents itself and its qualities to the senses and consciousness (such as that of critical virtual realism), or that qualities belong only to the physical object making the concepts in consciousness (such that of critical formal realism). I would agree to the claim of Vincent Potter that the best epistemological explanation is that of moderate realism. Moderate realism has its roots on the philosophy of Aristotle and was further developed by other philosophers. One who is prominent is Thomas Aquinas. The belief claims that the objects appear to us through the sense experiences but are subject to the processes of the mind. By this, we mean that the human mind also gives its recognition to the concept given by the object. This process, then, is what we call judging. Therefore, it is by sensing objective experiences and by putting it under the cognitive process of the human mind that a judgement is made, from which we are able to know and acquire knowledge.