Chapter 14: (un)Consciousness Thought

Question 1

Mind-body problem

Answer 1

The difficulty in understanding how the mind (a nonphysical entity) and the body (a physical entity) can influence each other, so that physical events can cause mental events, and mental events can cause physical ones.

Question 2

qualia

Answer 2

The subjective conscious experiences, or “raw feels,” of awareness. Examples include the pain of a headache and the exact flavor of chocolate.

Question 3

neural workspace hypothesis

Answer 3

Most processing in the brain is carried out by separate specialised modules. But when you pay attention to a stimulus, the neurons in the separate modules are connected by workspace neurons. This linkage amplifies and sustains the processing within individual modules, and allows integration and comparison of the various modules. The integration makes consciousness (possible).

Question 4

metacognitive skills

Answer 4

monitor and control own mental processes

Question 5

metamemory

Answer 5

people’s knowledge about, awareness of, and control over their own body

Question 6

subliminal perception

Answer 6

people can be influenced by visual inputs they did not consciously perceived.

Question 7

cognitive unconcious? and enable what?

Answer 7

mental activities, people are unaware of them, make thinking/remembering/reasoning possible