Quiz 03/26

Question 1

What is Ego Theory?

Answer 1

We are a single continuous self who has experiences

• consistent with religious or spiritual notions of a soul
• consistent with the substance dualism idea that the nonphysical mind is an experiencing self

Question 2

What is Bundle Theory?

Answer 2

Our consciousness as an experiencing self is an illusion

• consistent with some religious ideas such as Buddhism - there is no ego, no fixed entity of self,
• we are a moving bundle of experiences that we call self

Question 3

What is Neuronal adequacy?

Answer 3

a sufficient physical condition for the associated conscious sensation

• takes a certain amount of time after the beginning of the stimulation before there occurs “neuronal adequacy”
• the 500 ms time between the start of the stimulus being applied and conscious experience occurring of the stimulus.

Question 4

What is subjective referral?

Answer 4

sensations experienced at a time of stimulation, but only if neuronal adequacy is achieved after some time on sensation

• consciousness actually happens after neuronal adequacy is achieved, but feels like it happened at S pulse time (time the stimulation occurred)
• conscious experience of time is delayed relative to objective time
• demonstrated that consciousness comes after we have decided to act
• slow onset of consciousness suggest it does not/cannot cause our actions

Question 5

How does the “Self” in bundle theory appear continuous?

Answer 5

the “self” is a sequence of unified neurocognitive states that exist moment to moment like pearls on a string

• the important framework that we call self is just a series of bundles of experiences