1. Kenneth Aldrich Killian Barrera Richard Balderas
Consciousness
Kenneth Aldrich
Killian Barrera
Richard Balderas

2. Ghost in a machine (Gilbert Ryle)
Mind/Body Problem
Ghost in a machine (Gilbert Ryle)
Religious View
Zombie Possibility
No ghost within
Mutant Possibility
Ghost within

3. Consciousness is Everywhere
In this case study it talked about the human/animal consciousness and how it correlates to the mind and body. The number of neurons contributes to the level of consciousness, the differences are not qualitative they are quantitative. The challenge that remains is to understand how the nerve cells give rise to any one conscious sensation.
The purpose of this research project is to find out more information on what makes an organism conscious and to find out if just because it is living does that automatically mean that it has a conscious.
“Any system whose functional connectivity and architecture yield a phi value greater than zero has at least a trifle of experiences.”(Koch, 2012).

4. Thinking Without Words: An Overview for Animal Ethics
Non-linguistic animals can have thoughts, but they are not the normal human thoughts meaning are not “accurately expressible in language”.
(Bermudez, 2007, p. 323)
Human animals are “species of animals that are genuine thinkers in much of the same way that humans count as genuine thinkers. That is they behave in ways that reflect their desires and their beliefs about the environment”. (Bermudez, 2007, p )

5. Social behavior following severe traumatic brain injury: Contribution of emotion perception deficits
Some parts of the brain hold more direct link to consciousness than other parts. People who received trauma to certain parts of the brain held a higher level of understanding and functionality in consciousness than others.
Damaging the brain renders neurons unable to function correctly making the level of consciousness a person has to drop, this is shown when patients with TBI( Traumatic Brain Injury's) were unable to comprehend certain social situations. “It is likely that patients who have difficulties understanding another person’s point of view are not able to tailor the content of their speech to that particular social audience.” ( Saxton 2013, Page 3)

6. Animal Mind: Science, Philosophy, and Ethics.
Animals were first thought to have no consciousness and were often treated immorally due to this. According to Charles Darwin, since “humans were ‘‘at the top of the evolutionary pyramid,’’ they were ‘‘superior’’ to lesser beings and thus we did not need to worry about them morally.” (Rollin 2007, pg. 257)
Pain is a very basic biological safeguard in an organism. “If one denies simple pain consciousness in an animal, one is logically bound to deny more complex mental states which require greater sophistication of consciousness.” (Rollin 2007, pg. 270).
Since animals are able to feel and express pain, which are characteristics we consider having to do with consciousness, then animals would indeed have some level of consciousness.

7. Mind/Body Perspectives
Panpsychism
Interactive Property Dualism
Epiphenomenalism

8. The View that all mental states are derived from physical states.
Epiphenomalism
The View that all mental states are derived from physical states.

9. Interactive Property Dualism
View that the mind and body – or mental and physical events – interact and influence each other.
It is known that the number of neurons in an organisms brain contributes to the level of consciousness.

10. The view that everything in this world has some mental aspect.
“But fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism.” (Nagel, 1974)
Panpsychism
The view that everything in this world has some mental aspect.

11. Conclusion
“But one might also believe that there are facts which could not ever be represented or comprehended by human beings, even if the species lasted forever – simply because our structure does not permit us to operate with concepts of the requisite type.” (Nagel, 1974)

12. Sources
Bermúdez, J. (2007). Thinking Without Words: An Overview for Animal Ethics. Journal Of Ethics, 11(3), doi: /s
Nagel, T (1974). WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT? The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4. (Oct., 1974), pp
Rollin, B. (2007). Animal Mind: Science, Philosophy, and Ethics. Journal Of Ethics, 11(3), doi: /s
 Saxton, M. E., Younan, S. S., & Lah, S. (2013). Social behaviour following severe traumatic brain injury: Contribution of emotion perception deficits. Neurorehabilitation, 33(2), doi: /NRE