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Question 1

What is primary consciousness?

Answer 1

direct experience of sensations, percepts, feelings, thoughts, or memories

Question 2

what is reflective consciousness?

Answer 2

conscious thoughts about one’s own conscious experience

Question 3

what is phenomenal consciousness

Answer 3

sensory, mental, and bodily experiences such as looking at a person

Question 4

access consciousness

Answer 4

mental information that is available for verbal report and control of behavior - such as telling someone what you’ve experienced or thought

Question 5

what is qualia?

Answer 5

philosophic term for subjective experiences

Question 6

formal properties of qualia

Answer 6

• ineffable: hard to express in words
• intrinsic: a principle part of
• private: the experience is personal
• directly apprehended: phenomenal/ primary

Question 7

is consciousness arousal?

Answer 7

arousal = general activation level of cerebral cortex
- problem: we can be conscious when arousal is low, such as sleeping

Question 8

is executive control consciousness?

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

is consciousness equal to awareness?

Answer 9

• 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