What is the theme behind the disneyland of consciousness

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Answer all of the following questions fully and comprehensively, Also be sure to use pertinent quotes to support your answers.

1. What is the theme behind the Disneyland of Consciousness?

2. Is Consciousness physical? Explain your answer (pro or con). Be sure to substantiate your argument.

3. Do you believe we are living in a computer simulation? Be sure to research your answer before detailing your response.

4. What is Issac Asimov's theory of self-reflective awareness (hint: it is in the film, The Sandcastle of awareness).

5. Why does Patricia Churchland favor a "neural" theory of pain versus a "soul" theory of it?

6. Note: the following is an extra credit question: What flaws did the author find in Jeffrey Kripal's paranormal arguments? Hint: it is in the chapter Understanding the Improbable in the required text DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY.

7. Why is the book dead? Do you agree or disagree with the film?

8. Why is Faqir Chand's life and work so important in understanding the illusory nature of religious visions? Be sure to give two examples from his life and work to back up your answer.

9. What is the remainder conjecture?

10. What is Calvino's metaphor and how should it humble us about making absolute statements in philosophy?

11. Why is understanding neuroscience vitally important in understanding human consciousness?

12. Based on the three-part film, give a 250 summation of the "history" of philosophy. Be sure to mention who was your favorite philosopher and why.

13. In the book the Circle of the Wise which philosopher did you find most agreeable? Why? Which philosopher did you find most disagreeable?

Hint: which philosopher did you find yourself aligning with? Or disagreeing with?

14. Compare and contrast three philosophers and their respective answers in the book Circle of the Wise.

15. What was your favorite film this semester?

16. What was your favorite reading this semester?

Here is the film name and the books name you may want to use in some questions:

BOOKS
1.The Great Mystery
2.How Socrates Died
3.Quantum Weirdness
4.Is the Universe Really Made Out of Rubber Bands?
5.DARWIN 101
6.EVOLUTIONARY LIMITS
7. Is The Universe an App?
8. EINSTEIN'S WASTEBASKET
9. The Unknowing Sage
10. Circle of the Wise

Required Films

1. EITHER/OR
2. THE MYTH OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE
3. THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE
4. THE EMERGENCE OF RATIONALITY
5. Plato's Allegory of the Cave
6. Mysterium Tremendum: Part One
7. Mysterium Tremendum: Part Two
8. The Delos Cube

1. ELECTRIC SURFING
2. QUANTUM THINKING
3. ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM, part one
4. ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM, part two
5. ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM, part three
6. Brian Greene's ELEGANT UNIVERSE
7. Brian Greene's THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS
8. QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY
9. STRING THEORY
10. Quantum Superposition (important)
11. The Quantum Mechanical Nature of Photosynthesis
12. What is Matter?

1. PIVOTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
2. DARWIN'S DNA
3. CHARLES DARWIN
4. EVOLUTION EXPLAINED IN FOUR MINUTES
5. DARWIN-WALLACE DEBATE
6. THE GENETIC CONNECTION
7. THE MAGIC OF EVOLUTION
8. THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPERATIVE

1. The Disneyland of Consciousness
2. Consciousness as a Mobius Strip
3. Radiance without an Edge
4. A Glorious Piece of Meat
5. Brain Burn
6. Patricia Churchland Interview
7. The Sandcastle of Awareness
8. Surfing the User Interface
9. The Wisdom Tooth

1. Ray Kurzweil
2. Stephen Wolfram
3. The Time Machine
4. Alan Turing Lecture
5. The Codex Funeral

6. Is the Universe an App?
7. The Wolfram Conclusion
8. The Complexity of Consciousness
9. Global Positioning Intelligence
10. Zombie Consciousness

1. THE REMAINDER CONJECTURE
2. THE OCEANIC METAPHOR
3. SURFING IN THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES
4. NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
5. THE CEREBRAL SYMPHONY
6. THE INFINITE SHUFFLE
7. THE UNKNOWABLE
8. iNNER VISIONS AND RUNNING TRAINS

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