The main theistic package in Pascal sense is the better choice. It is really the only choice. Choosing the naturalistic package, if the author is true, is like dooming yourself. By choosing the main naturalistic package you are saying that life has no meaning, there is no free view and there is no hope in after this life. This left believer in naturalistic package with nothing but to acquire much joy as possible because this is the end; however, it is difficult to have fun when you know that when you die, that it. With this option, it would be logical to choose the theistic view which provide opposite of what the naturalistic package and in Pascal definition, you could still enjoy most of the fun things the naturalistic people do. Pascal believe that betting on the theistic package means paying attention to spiritual things. You don't have to be a nun or become a priest. It just a effort here and there. If Pascal is true then life as a believer is very casual and doesn't involve too much change. This makes the theistic view point even more appealing because you can have material fun as much as the non believer while still keeping hope and free view in life. Having peace knowing that there is God watching over you and know that you are going to heaven when you die. Comparing the 2 views, theistic view is the view point to take. http://goanimate.com/movie/0NdCP-XeH5gg?utm_source=linkshare

Ted talk

Ramachandran talks about the 3 distinct brain diseases. These diseases were thought to be problem with the mind. The first disease is the Capgras symdrom which makes you can't recognized people faces. The second disease is the phantom limb which makes you feel pain on amputate body parts. And the last disease is the Synthesis. This disease gives mix signal. When they see a number 5 they might see a blue. A weird conditions indeed. All of these disease seems to point toward the fact that mind doesn't exist. That we have no soul but just brain, which is the materialistic view expect the second disease. The first disease is the Capgras symdrom. Ramachandran explains that the disease start in the brain. That the emotional part of the brain got cut from the vision part causing people not to be able to recognize faces. This shows that the brain is the actual part that does the feeling. This leads us to question what is a mind and do we have one. Our feeling is created and control by the brain. If we have a mind and mind does leave the body then we will be robotic in life after death? The argument all point to the nonexistence of a mind and if the mind does exist, maybe we have to redefine it. The second case is phantom limb. Patients who have phantom limb experience pain on the amputated limb. Ramachandran fixs this case by using visual image to trick the brain. He said that phantom limb is created by repeating brain signal failure to move certain parts of the body. After long enough failure the brain remember the lesson and won't move anymore eventhough the area is healed. Ramachandran cure this by tricking the brain into thinking that the amputated limb moves. Once it moves the brain then release from it paralyze and work again. I think this disease argue for the dualism side. What trick the brain? The brain obviously can't trick itself so the only answer seems to be the mind. The last disease is the synthesis. The disease seems to be more metabolically disease which seems to concern with the mind. Ramachandran, though, explain that the disease is cause by the cross wire inside the brain. Something that people in the past used to think happen in the mind. This shows that more and more diseases concerning the mind is actually happen inside the brain. That maybe there is no mind at all. Everything is just the brain, tangible brain.

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Truman

http://prezi.com/yxydqpgefwkn/present/?auth_key=fzaop25&follow=im1zie440ful

Agent 007

http://prezi.com/05eajz2_rplm/agency/

Milgram Experiment

The Milgram Experiment is a very interesting experiment which we can examine it in many philosophical view points concerning free will. The first free view theory we will examine the experiment in light of is the Universal Casualty which the scientific determinism believe in. The universal casualty states that each event has a cause and the cause is resulted from another event and so on thus free will does not exist. This theory, first of all will eliminate the ethical issue because there is no free will; if we don't have a choice, how can we be blame for our actions? The volunteers' actions to shock people will just be an effect of the cause, the experimenters pushing them, which is result of another cause in a chain events.

Now that we established the Universal Casualty we will take a look at agency theory. The agency theory only believes a part of the universal Casualty: that every event has a cause but it doesn't result from another action. The theory says that an action by a thinkable thing is a free act no matter what. The action is the pushing the button and the cause is the volunteers. Since volunteers can think their action is free and thus become unethical.

When an indeterminist sees this experiment, he or she will see that the volunteers are unethcal people. Since they do not believe in Universal Casualty at all so the choice of whether the volunteers pressing the button or not is entirely up to them. The compatibility also has a similar thought. They still believe that the choice to press the button is entirely up to the volunteers which in this case make them unethical but they still believe in universal casualty. But how can there be free will in universal casualty. The compatibility believe that as long as the actions come from within you, it is free.

Zomibeee Utilitarian

The guy is infected with zombie virus so the community decides to kill him so that the community is safe.