What Is? Flashcards
What are some common terms?
Zoning in, spotlight, focus, realisation, responses and thinking.
What does James say?
Everyone knows what consciousness is.
What does Dennett, 1991 say?
When we understand consciousness, consciousness will be different.
Is consciousness a stream of thinking?
Yes, also trivial and complex.
Velmans, 2009 said?
Consciousness is the absence or prescribe of experienced phenomena.
Nagel, 1974?
Made people think of consciousness
It makes the mind body problem interactable.
What is it like to be a bat? Subjective feeling.
What are the 3 subjective experiences?
Embodied cognition- mind/physical interactions changes how we think about that representation.
Phenomenal Con.- subjective feeling
(Block, 2005)
Access Con.- elements for use in thinking, speech and action.
What are the problems?
No consensus
No framework for study
No agreed process
McGinn, 1999: our intelligence is wrongly designed for understanding consciousness.
What is agreed though?
It’s conscious, subjective and personal.
How many other constructs?
2
Qualia
Illusion
Blackmore, 2004 quaila?
4
Philosophical approach- phenomenology!
“Intrinsic quality to experimental states”
Our quaila allows us to process/describe sensory events
Our quale makes the mental event conscious
Chalmers, 1996 supported quaila how?
Through a zombie thought experiment
No soul/consciousness= no quaila
Something physically identical but has no conscious experience
= consciousness inessentialism.
Churchland, 1996 criticised?
That Chalmers thought experiment was a feeble demonstration.
Wegner, 2003 found what about illusion?
It’s how we perceive out conscious control- free will = illusion!!
Counter-intuitive, questions decision making!
What experiment was carried out for illusion?
Libet’s clock
EEG activation of action timing, brain activation and free will
Results: movement/neural changes before conscious decision.
