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Consciousness Flashcards

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Panpsychism

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the notion that all objects possess some level of consciousness or mind

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Consciousness

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  • our subjective experience of the world and of our mental activity
  • Consciousness is a subjective state/experience
  • it’s what you’re aware of right now
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Mind-body problem

Cartesian dualism

Rene Descartes

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  • Mind has to be separate from the body because you go to heaven or hell when you die
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mind-body problem

Theater of the mind

R. Descartes theory of consciousness

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  • mini dude living in your brain
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mind-body problem

Materialism

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  • the brain enables the mind
  • suggests everything about the mind can be explained by the physical workings of the brain and nervous system
  • can it be studied? what’s it like to be a bat? (Nagel)
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Helmhotz’s unconscious inference

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  • we aren’t aware of the building process of our concious experiences
  • its based on past experiences
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Sentience

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  • refers to the subjectivity of consciousness (based on personal experiences)
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Qualia

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  • the properties of our subjective, phenomenology awareness
  • Your subjective experience of the world
  • The world through your eyes
  • Not the same as everyone else’s (ex. Colours)
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David Chalmers

Easy questions

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  • explain how the brain performs specific functions (ex. attention, decision-making, etc.)
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David Chalmers

Hard questions

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  • trying to explain subjective experiences
  • trouble connecting the physical processes in the brain to the inner feeling of consciousness
  • ex. why does music make you feel a certain way?
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can consciousness be studied empirically?

no - it’s metaphysical

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  • i don’t know what its like to be a bat
  • it’s an abstract concept that we won’t be able to understand entirely
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can consciousness be studied empirically?

no - it’s beyond our cognitive ability

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  • humans will never be smart enough to figure it out
  • consciousness is not a self-observing system
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Cognitive closure

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  • a philosophical position that the human mind is incapable of solving certain philosophical problems
  • ex. consciousness
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can consciousness be studied empirically?

yes - 2 reasons

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  • we just don’t have the technology yet
  • we’re already close
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Helmholtz - awareness

2 things driving our behaviour at any time

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  1. unconscious influence (ex. priming, automaticity)
  2. cognitive control (ex. effort into a task) requires attention
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Anosognosia

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denial of illness

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Anton syndrome

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  • someone who is blind but denies it
  • your brain wants a cohesive understanding of everything so it fills in the gaps for you
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2 characteristics of free-will

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  1. intentionality (ex. my arm moves when I decide - intention is followed by planning and execution)
  2. agency (i was the one who moved it)
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Introspection illusion

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  • a cognitive illusion that leads us to believe that we have direct insight into our mental states
  • We believe our introspections are accurate - ex. It was my idea to move my arm

we are unaware of our unawareness but we confabulate explanations anyway (ex. I chose this yogurt because __ )

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choice blindness

concurrent detection

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  • ability to notice that a choice has changed while it’s being made
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choice blindness

sensory change

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  • not being able to detect the change of something such as taste (ex. having to keep switching back and fourth between testings to notice a difference)
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choice blindness

retrospective detection

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  • someone notices that a change was made only after they’re told that it may have happenes (OHHHHH)
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how are intentionality and agency only an illusion?

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  • they are triggered areas of the brain
  • the brain wants everything to make sense so it makes you feel like you have these things when in reality you start a movement 1/2 seconds before you actually decide to move
  • the brain is doing everything
  • brain moves your arm but then tells you you’re the one who did it (ad hoc revisionism)
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Delusionalism

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  • free will is an illusion created by the brain to “make it make sense”

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