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
