Answer: Descartes is similar more or less to Gretchen, not just because Gretchen took a liking to philosophy, but because Gretchen wondered if there was life after death and she was more or less on the no side.
However Sam tried to convince her throughout the story and that is what Descartes did. He tried to get to know if this was true through the means of phsicology.
Explanation: Gretchen Weirob was a philosophy teacher and Sam Miller is her friend. Gretchen decided to spend her last days debating on whether life after death is possible and on personal identity.
Descartes considered the body and the soul to be ontologically separate but interacting entities, each with its own particular attributes. He then sought to specify both their mode and site of interaction; the latter he deduced to be the pineal gland. The pineal was to become, in the words of Geoffrey Jefferson, “the nodal point of Cartesian dualism.”
Descartes succeeded in eliminating the soul’s general physiological role altogether and in circumscribing its cognitive role to the human species. Descartes’s writings about death show that his concept of the soul clearly implied both mind and the immaterial principle of immortality. It had to mean both things, for no one had ever conceived of survival after death without a mind to verify the fact of continued existence, to enjoy its pleasures, and to suffer its pains.
We now know that immediately below the pineal gland there lies the mesencephalic tegmentum (the uppermost part of the brain stem), which is crucial to generating alertness (the capacity for consciousness), without which, of course, there can be no volition, cognition, or reason.
Answer: The framing effect
Explanation:
The framing effect is cognitive bias where People think that by manipulating the way information is presented can influence and change thier judgement about that information. we can judge how people woukd think about a situation by use of images, words, or ageneral context around the information they present.for example
when a positive frame is presented, people try to avoid risk but seek risks when a negative frame is presented. The framing effect has continually proven to be one of the strongest biases in decision making and are usually from emotional pressure to social pressure to priming because they are unlimited.
Answer:
intimacy versus isolation
Explanation:
In the intimacy versus isolation stage a person explores their relationships with other people.
There are two results of this stage.
A person makes lasting relationships with people and is happy.
A person fears the what being intimate might mean and rejects all forms of relationships. This likely would lead to depression, loneliness and isolation.
Here, Devin is cautious about relationships and makes sure that he does not get hurt during the relationship. Hence is in the intimacy versus isolation stage.
