What is primary consciousness?
direct experience of sensations, percepts, feelings, thoughts, or memories
what is reflective consciousness?
conscious thoughts about one’s own conscious experience
what is phenomenal consciousness
sensory, mental, and bodily experiences such as looking at a person
access consciousness
mental information that is available for verbal report and control of behavior - such as telling someone what you’ve experienced or thought
what is qualia?
philosophic term for subjective experiences
formal properties of qualia
- ineffable: hard to express in words
- intrinsic: a principle part of
- private: the experience is personal
- directly apprehended: phenomenal/ primary
is consciousness arousal?
arousal = general activation level of cerebral cortex
- problem: we can be conscious when arousal is low, such as sleeping
is executive control consciousness?
- there is an entity that received stimuli and decides to act on this stimuli
- concept of agency, we have control over our environment, ourselves, we have free will
- problem: it is unclear if any of our actions are truly voluntary or free
is consciousness equal to awareness?
- awareness: having knowledge of perception of a situation or fact
- problem: driving or the cocktail party, you’re aware but you’re not fully conscious of, you’re not experiencing directly
