Consciousness Flashcards
Who wrote “on a confusion about a function of consciousness”, and when?
Ned Block 1995
Who made the distinctions between A-consciousness and P-consciousness?
Ned Block in “on a confusion about consciousness”
What is Ned Blocks A-consciousness referring to?
Access-consciousness: a state on the basis of which a subject is able to reason, to have rational control of action and of speech.
What is Ned Blocks P-consciousness referring to?
Phenomenal-consciousness: experiences
who sais that “if there is something it is like for a bat to have a sonar sense, then bats must be conscious creatures”?
Nagel in 1974
Name the two basic elements of our perception oof good science, according to Overgaard 2015, which we have from Galileo.
1) Objects for scientific research must be accesible from a third-person perspective
2) objects for scientific results must be replicable.
Describe the socalled Sperling experiment (1969)
Here, subjects were only able to report letters from one of three rows presented on a screen. However, with post-stimulus cueing, subjects could report whatever row they were asked.
subjects were only able to report letters from one of three rows presented on a screen. However, with post-stimulus cueing, subjects could report whatever row they were asked.
Who made that experiment, and when?
Sperling in 1960
What does Bloch infer from the Sperling experiment in a discussion with Cohen and Dennett in 2011?
that conscious experience “overflows” the cognitive functions involved in accessing and reporting the experience.
What does Cohen and Dennett infer from the Sperling experiment in a discussion with Block in 2011?
that consciousness plays a cognitive role, and that a subject is conscious of some information if it is used by the subject’s cognitive system in a particular way.
What debate is the discussion between Cohen and dennett and Block a part of?
The cognitive/non-cognitive debate. Is consciousness identical to a cognitive function or does it overflow cognitive functions (thereby most likely being defined by subjectivity).
Who says that a concious state can only be described in terms of what it represents?
John Searle (1992).
What is the consequence of John Searles view that conscious states can only be described in terms of what it represents?
That there is no difference between being in a conscious state, and being introspectively aware of that state.
