Essays on Mental Faculties

Is Google making is Stupid

Introduction The article analyzes the way the internet has taken over our whole world and developed a world where we are completely reliant on using the internet for everything we need. The internet has created a world around us that has led us humans to stop thinking anymore, rather use the internet for anything as their thinking device. The worst part is that the internet provides an easy pass to people and makes them lazy and dependent. The article provides a brief analysis of the situation at hand and how humans are becoming stupider with time. Today, people cannot ...

Protecting Elderly Parents From Scams

The elderly, typically retired individuals, are considered at the maximum risk of being targeted by scammers who are on the lookout for easy yet lucrative pickings and profiting from cheating them. Most people in the U.S who are in this age bracket are either in nursing homes or live alone with infrequent visitation from their children and other family members. It is this isolation and disconnect from their loved ones, not to mention the age-related deterioration of their mental faculties that makes them increasingly vulnerable to scamming threats . In order for their children to keep them safe from losing ...

For a science enthusiast such as me the slightest opportunity to make huge scientific strides that would greatly benefit human kind is a thing to marvel at and be jumped at with the slightest opportunity available. I have always been fascinated with things scientific especially as far as physics goes. Aspects of physics such as perpetual motion and something as basic as the force of gravity have always fascinated me and gave me a yearning to ever be learning more. Mathematics is also a key emphasis point for me. The manipulation of numbers to arrive at desired outcome is very healthy not only ...

The Mark of the Mental

Part 1 The problem of the mark of the mental is in determining what distinct features constitute the mind itself, what is unique about them, and what unifies them. Farkas proposes an answer to this problem by describing the mind as “nothing but the subject matter of the cognitive capacity that endows me with special access: that is, the area that is known by me in a way that is known by no one else” (22). However, before determining that this special or privileged access is indeed the mark of the mental, Farkas demonstrates how she arrives at this ...