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Task 2 Flashcards

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What is meant by phenomenal conciousness ?

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  • Explains the concept of mind via conscious experience
  • Characterised by the way it feels
  • example: Sensation
  • First person access
  • Hard problems
  • also called = qualia
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What is meant by psychological consciousness ?

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  • Explains the concept of mind the via explanatory basis (information processing) for behaviour
  • Characterized by the way it does
  • example: learning and memory
  • Third person acces
  • Easy problems
  • Also callled = awareness
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What are the core mechanism of consciousness ?

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  • The subjective quality of consciouss experience
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What is meant by conscious experience ?

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  • internal aspect to proccesing
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What does qualia mean ?

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  • If a mental state is conscious, it has a qualitative feel
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What is meant by subjective view-point ?

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  • always a view from inside. It’s based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions
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What is meant by objective view point ?

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-is a view from the outside.

Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts

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For which view point subjective or objective is consciouss important ?

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  • for the subjective viewpoint
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By which category (Phenomenal/Psychological) can conssciousness experiences be explained by ?

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  • Phenomenal, psychological or by a combination of both
  • Most often both = double life = co occcur
  • Most likly strongly to one side !
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What are some examples of psychological consciousness ?

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  • Awakeness
  • introspection
  • reportability
  • self consciousness
  • Attention
  • voluntary control
  • knowledge
  • > Ask someone
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What is meant by the deflationary concept ?

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  • That consciousness is purely based on psychological consciousness
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What is meant by the inflationary concept ?

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consciousness is purely based on phenomenalconsciousness

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What is the problem of phenomenal consciousness ?

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  • We have no independent language for describing phenomenal qualities
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What is meant by awareness ?

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  • Whenever we have acces to some information and can use that information to control behaviour
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What is the connection between awareness and phenomenal consciousness ?

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  • In general, wherever there is phenomenal consciousness, there seems to be awareness but not visa versa
  • It might be the psychological property of phenomenal consciousness
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What is the difference between consciousness and awareness ?

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  • consciousness is the procces of awarness -> so they are not equal !
  • awareness is the process of information
  • owen study could only be/is about awareness
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What was the orgin of the body and mind problem ?

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  • objective reality vs subjective reality

- Aristotelian vs Galileo and Descartes world view

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What happens if you would just have a brain without any soul ?(consciousness)

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  • There would be no life after death

- if so then psychology will be replaced by neuroscience

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What were some weakness of descartes ?

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  • The law of conservation

- If there is and intercation betwenn mind and body where does the energy go ?

20
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What is meant by the law of conservation ?

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  • no energy is ever lost

- that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant;

21
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When did the body and mind problem apered ?

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  • appeard in 1543 -1687

- it is around the scientfc revolution but the mind body problem was called a consequence of the scientifc revolution

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What was galileos /descartes opinion on the body and mind problem ?

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  • Gap between reality and appearance (reality is hidden)

- reason /mathematical thinking is superior to ovseravtion

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Accoridng to champler what ist meant by hard problems ?

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  • How do I explain our subjective experience ? (nobody can ever explain the feelings of pain)
  • question where we do not know any direction to come closer to the solution
  • phenomenal consciousness
24
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According to champler what is meant by easy problems ?

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  • solvable problems in the future): How does attention work
  • Psychological consciousness
25
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What are some solutions regarding the body and mind problem ?

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  • Dualism
  • Moism
  • bridging principle
26
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What are the types of dualism ?

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  • interactive dualism
  • Parallism
  • Epiphenomenalism
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What is meant by parallism ?

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  • body and mind are perfectly coordinated without any interaction
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what is meant by Epiphenomenalism ?

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  • mental events are caused by physical events in the brain
29
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What are some types of monism ?

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  • Materialism (identity theory, eliminativism, functionalism)
30
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What is materialism ?

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  • all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions
  • Consciousness is a ny prdouct effect of material processes
31
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What kind of people and scences supported the objectiv reality ?

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  • Wundt (psychophysics) behaviourism and neuroscience
32
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What kind of people supported subjective reallity ?

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  • Wundt (inrospection), freud and cognitive scince
33
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What is meant by the cartesain dualism ?

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  • It is an interactive dualism so the immaterial mind and the material body are distinct but interact with each other
  • pinal gland is the connection center between body and mind
34
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How could we identify if a soul actually exist ?

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  • Via transitor neurons which replace step by step nerurons till the complete brain is replaced with neurons
35
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What was bacons opinion on the mind and body problem ?

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  • Just as Galileo and descares he belived that there is a gab between reality and apperance
  • Difference: hidden world can be identified via experiments
36
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What is aristoles view on the body and mind problem ?

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  • There is no gap between
    Appearance and Reality
  • everything is based on reassoning
37
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How did galileo divided the body and mind problem in ?

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Objective reality and subjective apperance

38
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What is meant by objective reality ?

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  • Size
  • Shape
  • Motion
  • Number
39
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What is meant by subjective reality ?

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– Color
– Odor
– Taste
– Sound

40
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What is so special about objective reality ?

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  • Independent of human being
  • exist objectively
  • fits to mathematical approaches
41
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What is THE solution to the body and mind problem ?

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  • The bridging principle
42
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How do bridging principles work ?

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  • They connect first person data with third person data

- Also called pre experimental bridging

43
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What is meant by first person data ?

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  • Subjective experience
  • not accesible to others
  • reported by first eprson statemnets
44
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What is meant by third person data ?

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  • objetive data
  • Accesible to others
  • reported by first person statements
45
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Why do we need bridging principles ?

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  • There are no objective consciousmeters

- Because they would make it possible to meassure conscioussness subjectively

46
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What are some bridging principles ?

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  • Verbal report
  • Global availability
  • Goal oriented behavior
47
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What are some limitations bridging principles ?

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  • is never a process in the brain

- it always has to be possible behavior

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