Consciousness

Question 1

What is consciousness?

Answer 1

Awareness of internal and external experiences, including perception, thoughts, and emotions.

Question 2

What is the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness?

Answer 2

Explaining why and how subjective experiences arise from physical brain processes (Chalmers, 1995).

Question 3

What is blindsight?

Answer 3

Responding to visual stimuli without consciously seeing them, usually due to V1 damage.

Question 4

What does blindsight suggest?

Answer 4

Perception can occur without conscious awareness.

Question 5

What is the Global Workspace Theory?

Answer 5

Consciousness arises when information is widely broadcast across brain networks (Baars, 1988).

Question 6

What is the Integrated Information Theory (IIT)?

Answer 6

Consciousness corresponds to the integration of information in the brain (Tononi, 2004).

Question 7

What did Dehaene et al. (2006) show?

Answer 7

Conscious access involves widespread brain activation, unlike unconscious processing.

Question 8

What is phenomenal vs access consciousness?

Answer 8

Phenomenal: subjective experience; Access: info available for reasoning or reporting.