Chapter 2

Question 1

Phenomenal Consciousness (P-Consciousness or phenomenality)

Answer 1

• Ned Block

- experience; what makes a state phenomenally conscious is that there is something ‘it is like’ to be in that state

Question 2

Access Consciousness (A-consciousness):

Answer 2

-availability for use in reasoning and rationally guiding speech and action

Question 3

Quale

Answer 3

what something is like

Question 4

Qualia

Answer 4

• Private experience

- conscious experience consists of qualia

Question 5

Epiphenomentalist

Answer 5

-believes that qualia exists but have no causal properties

Question 6

Eliminative Materialist

Answer 6

-denies that qualia exists

Question 7

Substance Dualists and Qualia

Answer 7

-bleieve that qualia exists but have no causal properties

Question 8

Thought Experiments

Answer 8

-designed to manipilate minds and clarify thinking

Question 9

David Chalmers

Answer 9

-o amount of knowledge about, or reasoning from, the physical facts could explain the feeling of what it is like to experience something (materialism is false)

Question 10

Dennett

Answer 10

-there is no qualia at all; we are zombies. No difference between phenomenal and access consciousness.

Question 11

Four Responses to the Hard Problem

Answer 11

1) Hard problem is insoluble
2) Try to solve it
3) tackle the easy problems
4) there is no hard problem