Thus, we expect the results of our study to have an impact on long-lasting psychological and philosophical debates regarding human-machine interactions.
From ancient times, it has played a role in human society and has been a favorite subject for philosophical, psychological and religious debate.
Above ground, doctors and psychological experts are debating how to keep the miners sane during the estimated four months it will take to dig a tunnel large enough to get them out of the safety chamber 2,200 feet (670 metres) underground, where they have been buried since 5 August.
Many theories describe people's most basic social and psychological needs, but debate rages over whether they are truly universal.
Our results shed light on the long-lasting psychological and philosophical debate regarding human-machine interaction and the question of what makes humans being perceived as human.
Without this assumption, a major issue in the philosophy of mind would be baseless: namely, the debate between psychological realists, who thought folk psychology a fundamentally sound foundation for cognitive science, and eliminativists, who deemed it a fundamentally flawed theory.
This is one of the places where debates about psychological strategies such as self-deception, "bad faith," wish-fulfillment, "irony," and the like become germane in the ethics of belief (see Wisdo 1991, Wisdo 1993, Mele 2001).
All I intended to do was to ask the questions, "Are we right to support sex change surgery, and is it right to apply a surgical solution to what I believe is a psychological problem?" After the debate I spoke to several transsexual men and women, and gained much insight from them.
While there are passages in the works of each of these philosophers that can be interpreted as advocating psychological egoism, scholars might debate whether these passages reflect the author's considered option.
The controversy and debate regarding psychological debriefing should inform all early interventions post-ICU (for example, [ 38]), with diaries needing to be targeted at those needing them [ 39], and an awareness that psychological interventions are rarely neutral.
