Consciousness Lecture Flashcards

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What is the idea of selfhood?

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Self permeated everything and is at the centre of big controversies and social political debates

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Name examples of how injury to the brain can impact self hood

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Time delay, visual illusions, blindsight, splitting brains, phantom limb, prosopagnosia, DID

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What is consciousness?

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A controversial phenomenon which discusses materialism, experiences, and mind body problems

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What is the purpose of the explanatory gap?

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Clarifies central meaning of consciousness which is the subjective character of experience

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What kind of experience is consciousness?

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Subjective

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What does it mean when something is sentient?

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There is the Capacity to perceive, feel and experience subjectivity, availability to perceive sensations

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What is the hard problem of consciousness?

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The problem of explaining how consciousness arises from matter and how subjective experience come from physical cognitive processes

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What is a stream of consciousness?

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Where awareness develops to, becoming available for further processing by the cognitive system

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What are the three types of self?

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Material self
Social self
Spiritual self

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What is the difference between me and I?

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Me refers to the empirical self, I refers to what lies beyond and the subjective knowing

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11
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Name three other concepts of consciousness

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Creature consciousness
transitive consciousness
Self consciousness

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12
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Name examples of substance dualism?

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Mind vs body
Head vs heart
Reason vs emotion
Control vs impulse

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How is the self related to dualism?

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Consciousness is intrinsically related to help, need both body and experience

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What are ego theories?

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Assume something to be literally true and continuing self

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What are bundle theories?

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When something isn’t true, the experience of the self must have an alternative explanation

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What kind of theories are religions?

17
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What are religion self theories based on?

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The assumption that the selves exists, whether those selves are conceived of as sounds spirits or anything else

18
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Which religion is a bundle theory?

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Buddhism rejects the idea of a persisting self

19
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What is the idea of self illusion?

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Blending science with own practice of mediation to conclude the conventional self is an illusion

20
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What is the proto-self?

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The set of neutral patterns which map the state of the organism moment by moment

21
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What is the core self?

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The feeling of knowing a feeling. Bodily state creates awareness of current feeling

22
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What is the autobiographical self?

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The you that is born as the story of you life is told. Develops over time

23
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What is the multi-level scheme of consciousness?

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Exists 3 versions of the self
Proto, core, autobiographical