15 - Consciousness

Question 1

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Animal consciousness, consciousness possessed by some creatures, not others

Answer 1

Creature Consciousness

Question 2

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Whether our particular mental state is conscious

Answer 2

Mental-State Consciousness

Question 3

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Perception, beliefs, and decisions that have no conscious source

Answer 3

Intuition

Question 4

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Individual instances of subjective, conscious experience

Answer 4

Qualia

Question 5

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Ability of people who are unable to perceive visual stimuli due to cortical deficits to respond to visual stimuli

Answer 5

Blindsight

Question 6

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Brain damage causing reduced awareness of stimuli on the side of the visual field

Answer 6

Hemisphere Neglect

Question 7

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A being that is physically and behaviourally identical to a human, but has no conscious experience

Answer 7

Neurological Zombie

Question 8

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Theory that things are conscious when they require abstract or higher-order thought

Answer 8

Higher-Order Thought Models

Question 9

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Consciousness highlights a certain concept or process, and all other processes are able to view and act upon what is conscious

Answer 9

Barsa’s Global Workspace Model

Question 10

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Theory that there are multiple different processes that interpret a single thing differently that are all competing for consciousness

Answer 10

Dennett’s Multiple Drafts Model