Consciousness Lecture Flashcards
(23 cards)
What is the idea of selfhood?
Self permeated everything and is at the centre of big controversies and social political debates
Name examples of how injury to the brain can impact self hood
Time delay, visual illusions, blindsight, splitting brains, phantom limb, prosopagnosia, DID
What is consciousness?
A controversial phenomenon which discusses materialism, experiences, and mind body problems
What is the purpose of the explanatory gap?
Clarifies central meaning of consciousness which is the subjective character of experience
What kind of experience is consciousness?
Subjective
What does it mean when something is sentient?
There is the Capacity to perceive, feel and experience subjectivity, availability to perceive sensations
What is the hard problem of consciousness?
The problem of explaining how consciousness arises from matter and how subjective experience come from physical cognitive processes
What is a stream of consciousness?
Where awareness develops to, becoming available for further processing by the cognitive system
What are the three types of self?
Material self
Social self
Spiritual self
What is the difference between me and I?
Me refers to the empirical self, I refers to what lies beyond and the subjective knowing
Name three other concepts of consciousness
Creature consciousness
transitive consciousness
Self consciousness
Name examples of substance dualism?
Mind vs body
Head vs heart
Reason vs emotion
Control vs impulse
How is the self related to dualism?
Consciousness is intrinsically related to help, need both body and experience
What are ego theories?
Assume something to be literally true and continuing self
What are bundle theories?
When something isn’t true, the experience of the self must have an alternative explanation
What kind of theories are religions?
Ego theories
What are religion self theories based on?
The assumption that the selves exists, whether those selves are conceived of as sounds spirits or anything else
Which religion is a bundle theory?
Buddhism rejects the idea of a persisting self
What is the idea of self illusion?
Blending science with own practice of mediation to conclude the conventional self is an illusion
What is the proto-self?
The set of neutral patterns which map the state of the organism moment by moment
What is the core self?
The feeling of knowing a feeling. Bodily state creates awareness of current feeling
What is the autobiographical self?
The you that is born as the story of you life is told. Develops over time
What is the multi-level scheme of consciousness?
Exists 3 versions of the self
Proto, core, autobiographical
