Task 2 Flashcards
What is meant by phenomenal conciousness ?
- Explains the concept of mind via conscious experience
- Characterised by the way it feels
- example: Sensation
- First person access
- Hard problems
- also called = qualia
What is meant by psychological consciousness ?
- 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
What are the core mechanism of consciousness ?
- The subjective quality of consciouss experience
What is meant by conscious experience ?
- internal aspect to proccesing
What does qualia mean ?
- If a mental state is conscious, it has a qualitative feel
What is meant by subjective view-point ?
- always a view from inside. It’s based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions
What is meant by objective view point ?
-is a view from the outside.
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts
For which view point subjective or objective is consciouss important ?
- for the subjective viewpoint
By which category (Phenomenal/Psychological) can conssciousness experiences be explained by ?
- Phenomenal, psychological or by a combination of both
- Most often both = double life = co occcur
- Most likly strongly to one side !
What are some examples of psychological consciousness ?
- Awakeness
- introspection
- reportability
- self consciousness
- Attention
- voluntary control
- knowledge
- > Ask someone
What is meant by the deflationary concept ?
- That consciousness is purely based on psychological consciousness
What is meant by the inflationary concept ?
consciousness is purely based on phenomenalconsciousness
What is the problem of phenomenal consciousness ?
- We have no independent language for describing phenomenal qualities
What is meant by awareness ?
- Whenever we have acces to some information and can use that information to control behaviour
What is the connection between awareness and phenomenal consciousness ?
- 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
What is the difference between consciousness and awareness ?
- 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
What was the orgin of the body and mind problem ?
- objective reality vs subjective reality
- Aristotelian vs Galileo and Descartes world view
What happens if you would just have a brain without any soul ?(consciousness)
- There would be no life after death
- if so then psychology will be replaced by neuroscience
What were some weakness of descartes ?
- The law of conservation
- If there is and intercation betwenn mind and body where does the energy go ?
What is meant by the law of conservation ?
- no energy is ever lost
- that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant;
When did the body and mind problem apered ?
- appeard in 1543 -1687
- it is around the scientfc revolution but the mind body problem was called a consequence of the scientifc revolution
What was galileos /descartes opinion on the body and mind problem ?
- Gap between reality and appearance (reality is hidden)
- reason /mathematical thinking is superior to ovseravtion
Accoridng to champler what ist meant by hard problems ?
- 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
According to champler what is meant by easy problems ?
- solvable problems in the future): How does attention work
- Psychological consciousness
What are some solutions regarding the body and mind problem ?
- Dualism
- Moism
- bridging principle
What are the types of dualism ?
- interactive dualism
- Parallism
- Epiphenomenalism
What is meant by parallism ?
- body and mind are perfectly coordinated without any interaction
what is meant by Epiphenomenalism ?
- mental events are caused by physical events in the brain
What are some types of monism ?
- Materialism (identity theory, eliminativism, functionalism)
What is materialism ?
- all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions
- Consciousness is a ny prdouct effect of material processes
What kind of people and scences supported the objectiv reality ?
- Wundt (psychophysics) behaviourism and neuroscience
What kind of people supported subjective reallity ?
- Wundt (inrospection), freud and cognitive scince
What is meant by the cartesain dualism ?
- 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
How could we identify if a soul actually exist ?
- Via transitor neurons which replace step by step nerurons till the complete brain is replaced with neurons
What was bacons opinion on the mind and body problem ?
- Just as Galileo and descares he belived that there is a gab between reality and apperance
- Difference: hidden world can be identified via experiments
What is aristoles view on the body and mind problem ?
- There is no gap between
Appearance and Reality - everything is based on reassoning
How did galileo divided the body and mind problem in ?
Objective reality and subjective apperance
What is meant by objective reality ?
- Size
- Shape
- Motion
- Number
What is meant by subjective reality ?
– Color
– Odor
– Taste
– Sound
What is so special about objective reality ?
- Independent of human being
- exist objectively
- fits to mathematical approaches
What is THE solution to the body and mind problem ?
- The bridging principle
How do bridging principles work ?
- They connect first person data with third person data
- Also called pre experimental bridging
What is meant by first person data ?
- Subjective experience
- not accesible to others
- reported by first eprson statemnets
What is meant by third person data ?
- objetive data
- Accesible to others
- reported by first person statements
Why do we need bridging principles ?
- There are no objective consciousmeters
- Because they would make it possible to meassure conscioussness subjectively
What are some bridging principles ?
- Verbal report
- Global availability
- Goal oriented behavior
What are some limitations bridging principles ?
- is never a process in the brain
- it always has to be possible behavior
