Final exam Flashcards
What classifies a new model as better than an old model?
- Explains old phenomena (retrodict)
- Predicts new phenomena (experiments/observation)
- More beautiful than other models (ex: heliocentric v. Geocentric)
Substance Dualism
Mental states and physical states are substances that are SEPARATE from one another.
Property Dualism
Mental states and physical states are the SAME and NOT separate, but mental and physical properties are separate.
Cartesian Dualism
Theory: minds are simply “what brains do.” (Blackmore 14)
Epistemology
The study of HOW we know our methods of obtaining knowledge, and HOW WELL we pass it on or discuss it.
Ontology
The study of the NATURE OF BEING or the NATURE OF REALITY.
Metaphysics
The study of objects BEYOND physics. (Ex:epistemology, ontology, cosmology)
What was the point of the Mary experiment?
To argue against physicalism, and to help the thinker establish their own beliefs.
The Hard Problem
To explain the physical processes in the brain that give rise to subjective experience.
Agnosia
The inability to recognize something that is easily recognizable.
Milner and Goodale experiment
Patient DF was shown discs with randomly cut slots. DF was asked to draw the orientation of the slot, but couldn’t. DF was given a card to put through the slot and WAS able to.
How did Milner and Goodale propose two visual processing systems to interpret their results?
They discovered a clear dissociation between VISUAL PERCEPTION and VISUOMOTOR CONTROL, meaning that DF had lost most of the VENTRAL STREAM, but retained the DORSAL STREAM.
Milner and Goodale concluded that ACTION is not always dependent on ______?
PERCEPTION
The number of selves per body may not always be one. Explain.
self: experiences waking reality
Self: perceives but does not experience WPR
SELF: orients consciousness
Ego Theory
The reason we feel like one, continuous, unified self is because we ARE.
Bundle Theory
The feeling that we are one, continuous, unified self is an illusion. We are only a series of experiences linked loosely together in various ways.
SESMeT
Used by Strawson to describe his beads-on-a-string theory of self. Subjects of Experience that are Single Mental Things
What do the beads and string represent in Strawson’s theory of self?
Beads = ME NOW string = MEMORY
Describe the modification of the SESMeT model based on quantum theory and probabilities.
Modification says that perhaps there is no string that ties the selves together, and no requirement for one to exist at a time. They come and go and are not aware of one another.
See: rain drop model, many worlds, branching
Multiple Drafts Theory
Perceptions, emotions, thoughts and all kinds of mental activity are accomplished in the brain by parallel, multitrack processes that interpret sensory input, which are all under continuous revision.
The drafts are our perception and digestion of sensory input.
Center of narrative gravity.
The Binding Problem
There is no place where the VENTRAL and DORSAL streams bring all information together, so how can we consciously perceive a falling object as one, intact thing?
Discounts Cartesian Theatre.
Why does Blackmore argue that Dennett’s MD model suggests that the experience and the experience are co-created?
As inner speech is produced, so content becomes fixed and we conclude that “I” was watching the clouds go by. Cannot separate experience and experiencer.
Theory of Mind
Awareness of other minds.
Components:
- Deception
- Imitation
- Language
Epiphenomenalism
Consciousness has no causal relationship with anything. No free will.
