1. How do you personally distinguish the boundaries of your boundaries of your mental experience in your mental life? What counts as “mental” experience, as contrasted, say, with habits that you know you have, but that require no “thought” to execute? Compare that to Descartes’ demarcation between mind and brain (write 2 and ½ to 3 pages)

 

Although subjective or personal mental experience perimeters can be hard to maneuver and, in different instances, inconvenient, they are critical for individual mental health, well-being, and even physical security or safety, particularly in high-pressure surroundings when our psychological and emotional health is at risk. Mental experience boundaries define restrictions, limits, and guidelines that can be considered a delicate barrier separating personal interests and others'. As a result, I evaluate my thinking, values, and emotions when deciding or distinguishing boundaries between my various mental encounters throughout my mental existence because I can have my personal views, moral standards, convictions, and viewpoints. When it comes to mental limits, it is critical to give and receive respect.

Furthermore, I use assertive communication to establish and preserve my mental limits to distinguish the bounds of my mental experience in psychological development. Emphatic language is straightforward and unambiguous. I have also learned to reject or say no to things that are detrimental to my mental health. Even if it is difficult to reject sometimes, saying no to anyone for any reason without explaining why helps to distinguish personal boundaries. Directness tends to be associated with being willing to express how one thinks, and it's a terrific method to set and maintain mental boundaries.

Protecting my mental space also aids me in identifying and distinguishing my boundaries. Boundaries can be established and maintained for cognitive, physiological, and emotional spaces. Whether speaking to a friend or companion about one's psychological bounds or clarifying when one is violated, it ensures that the limitations are essential when communicated.

Reason, consciousness, thought, feeling, recollections, prior experiences, desire, and fantasy all play a role in mental experiences. It is accurate to claim that different people in a similar occurrence will have significantly distinct mental experiences of that activity in several circumstances. Thus, the false memories, daily experiences, and habits that automatically pass through our brains without our choosing to think about them, like brushing of teeth when waking up, using a key to lock the door, placing of toothbrush back in the same place after each use, and washing the face every morning are what I consider to be mental experiences that need no ‘thought’ to execute.

People are far from flawless, even if they seem capable of making meaningful thoughts of a condition and making reasonable decisions. Automatic habits and experiences in our thinking patterns and intentions can occasionally affect human ideas or thinking. For illustration, ambitions to achieve something and to regard myself always positively, and to have emotional responses to endeavors that occur to me constantly may influence my daily mental experience or thoughts unknowingly thus automatically.

 False memories, for illustration, are automatic mental experiences that are incorrectly interpreted as accurate depictions of past occurrences proven by the source-monitoring model, which is a conceptual basis for examining correct and erroneous memories. According to the above paradigm, mental experiences get linked to memory, either automatic or unintentional, depending on particular factors of the mental experience, such as personal details and whether or not they are remembered, specific knowledge, and beliefs. Objectives, reasons, and the social setting all impact automatic memory characterizations established using adjustable parameters.

Consequently, inaccurate information that is clear or perhaps even faint and matches existing paradigms may be misinterpreted for essential details. Unconscious falsification, prompting influences in eyewitness memory, kids' and adults' false stories of several events such as mistreatment, that involves retrieving old memories, reports of extraterrestrial victimization, and memories and recollection from infancy, could be explained by such variables. Research indicates, for instance, that repeatedly interrogating people about a hypothetical incident can lead to complex accounts of erroneous and automatic mental experiences. Conversely, prompting people to construct imagery or using lenient definitions enhances the likelihood of automatic false recollections, which is the same thinking of Descartes, who believes that all the intentional or automated mental experiences or things people see are fabricated or fictional (Raymond et al.,2012).

Descartes considers that none of the mental experiences perceived by people’s minds, which erroneous recollection or memory signifies, is real; where he proposed and compared the condition to having no senses or unknown mental thinking. Descartes understood that a substance, shape and figure, extension, movement, and dwelling area or place were purely narratives and fabrication of the intentional mental experience or thought process. Hence, there is categorically nothing definite and assured concerning subjective mental experiences. Descartes’s profoundly personal thinking and influences for dualism offer a decent preliminary idea for considering ourselves as corporeal bodies with diverse cognitive processes and experiences that can either be intentional or involuntary (Raymond et al.,2012).

Dualism is intimately linked to Descartes' philosophy, which maintains that the mind is a metaphysical and thus non-spatial reality. Descartes differentiated the human mind from the brain as the base or center of intelligence by relating it with realization and self-awareness. As a result, he formulated the reason and body problem in its current form. Various types of monism are contrasted with dualism, whereby mental experience encompasses both involuntary and voluntary aspects of intelligence and human awareness and all unconscious cognitive processes, as combinations of cognition, perception, recollections, emotion, and habits.