LS 301 - Inquiry blog: My understanding on the theme "What makes human bad"

      Reading the books and articles from different authors and discussing about the theme “What make human ‘bad’?”, I noticed that everyone came to their own answers using different sources and approaches from their knowledge. My understanding of this theme changed over time as I heard other’s opinions, shared my thoughts, and gained the interesting facts about the consciousness from the book “Consciousness” by Susan Blackmore. 

      I thought the idea of philosopher’s zombie from the book was interesting and really liked what Daniel, one of my classmate, said. In the book, Susan acknowledges humans are conscious and differentiate humans from the zombies who are not conscious. A zombie is someone who has no private, conscious experiences; zombies are easy to imagine, but many people reject its existence. Daniel said that if humans are zombies, unconscious beings, then the concept of goodness and badness will not exist because we no longer are humans, but animals. From this idea, I could lead into this thought that individuals could have the capability to be good like Mother Teresa because she was a human being like others. However, humans could be evil like Hitler as he was also a human. And I concluded that it could be our consciousness that make human bad.

Personal Knowledge Inventory

Type of knowledge	Source	Method of Acquisition	Description	Date last evaluated
Mere true belief	Bible	Church	Humans are naturally sinful because humans decided what was good and evil.
Mere true belief	Breaking Bad	Watching few scenes	Humans might turned bad because the environment and circumstances were full of evils. Walter White who struggled with medical bills for his lung cancer decided to make drugs for his family’s financial future. In the process, he murdered many people and did not stop making drugs.
True belief	Consciousness by Susan Blackmore	Thinking	Humans are conscious beings that has private experiences for oneself.