consciousness Flashcards
what is subjectivity
personally experienced and not well quantified.
intentionality
focused or directed at things or about something.
unity
is not easily fragmented. if experiencing something, it can usually only be experienced one way at a time
selectivity
attending to certain parts of the world and filtering out other parts
transience
stream of consciousness.
body awareness
knowing you have a body and that it is your own
agency
understand that you are an indiv who is separate from the rest of the world.
theory of mind
understanding that the contents of your mind differs from the contents of everyone elses minds.
what are executive functions
higher order cognitive processes that control and organize lower level cog processes
what is the binding problem
take in info about a situation. each quality you see is being processed by different parts of the brain. we need to be able to put all partss together to see the big picture
vegetative state
doesnt react to stimulus at all
minimal consciousnes
have moments where they are more lucid but they arent awake
excited conscious state
were in and out of consciousness but have left that
locked in syndrome
have no feeling or control over their body. they can communicate through things like blinking
perterbational complexity index
measuring using EEG. disturibing it with transcranial stimulation.
easy problem of consciousness
understanding the processes of consciousness
hard problem of consciousness
it is hard to imagine things without having experienced it
bistable images
good way to hold preception stable but have multiple experiences
binocular imagery
two different things in the left and right eye. we will alternate btwn seeing that is in the left vs the right eye
resting state fMRI
shows that a brain is more active when not doing anything.
aspects of consciousness
MISS BUSTA Meta cognition Intentionality Subjectivity Self awareness
Body awareness Unity Selectivity Transience and theory of mind Agency
