FS01MenantC
... Self-consciousness can be defined as “the possession of the concept of the self and the ability to use this concept in thinking about oneself” (Block, 2002). It is different from phenomenal consciousness which can be understood as “experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it ...
... Self-consciousness can be defined as “the possession of the concept of the self and the ability to use this concept in thinking about oneself” (Block, 2002). It is different from phenomenal consciousness which can be understood as “experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it ...
012-2-FOOD VALUES AND ECOLOGY
... know enough about the real utilitarian value of an animal or a plant; therefore, we may needlessly destroy the ecological balance by killing one species without considering the consequences of its complex relationship or utility value to other species. A forest's utility value, for example, is more ...
... know enough about the real utilitarian value of an animal or a plant; therefore, we may needlessly destroy the ecological balance by killing one species without considering the consequences of its complex relationship or utility value to other species. A forest's utility value, for example, is more ...
Phenomenology without conscious access is a form of
... signal that gives rise to sensation but cannot be integrated with cognition. Stimuli may therefore potentially elicit phenomenal experiences and these experiences may be discriminable yet they remain cognitively isolated. There is no framework within which to reason about or evaluate their differenc ...
... signal that gives rise to sensation but cannot be integrated with cognition. Stimuli may therefore potentially elicit phenomenal experiences and these experiences may be discriminable yet they remain cognitively isolated. There is no framework within which to reason about or evaluate their differenc ...
A true science of consciousness explains
... Such mechanisms should be able to integrate contextual information across the visual field, making inferences about its input while resolving perceptual ambiguity. They should be able to dynamically group image elements together, creating perceptual unity and perceptual organization. It is well esta ...
... Such mechanisms should be able to integrate contextual information across the visual field, making inferences about its input while resolving perceptual ambiguity. They should be able to dynamically group image elements together, creating perceptual unity and perceptual organization. It is well esta ...
Mind Lectures 2
... The postulation of two realms is unnecessary. One can account for both first-person facts and third-person facts without two realms. ...
... The postulation of two realms is unnecessary. One can account for both first-person facts and third-person facts without two realms. ...
precog10 - Physics-Intuition
... • Dr. Jessica Utts, Division of Statistics, at the University of California, Davis, wrote a paper entitled, An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning (1996). In her abstract she says, ...
... • Dr. Jessica Utts, Division of Statistics, at the University of California, Davis, wrote a paper entitled, An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning (1996). In her abstract she says, ...
Call For Papers The Sensorimotor Theory of Consciousness
... contingencies (SMCs) in consciousness? - How do we formalize the concept of SMCs? - How do we account for the difference between conscious and unconscious exercise of sensorimotor mastery? - How (if at all) can a sensorimotor approach ‘scale up’ to things like social cognition and abstract thought? ...
... contingencies (SMCs) in consciousness? - How do we formalize the concept of SMCs? - How do we account for the difference between conscious and unconscious exercise of sensorimotor mastery? - How (if at all) can a sensorimotor approach ‘scale up’ to things like social cognition and abstract thought? ...
PDF - Oxford Academic - Oxford University Press
... property of neural processes and cannot itself act causally in the world’ (p. 141). If this were true, and it did not have any power to deflect the course of events and bring anything about, it would be difficult to understand why it evolved in the first place. This is an important failing for a neu ...
... property of neural processes and cannot itself act causally in the world’ (p. 141). If this were true, and it did not have any power to deflect the course of events and bring anything about, it would be difficult to understand why it evolved in the first place. This is an important failing for a neu ...
Neuroscientific approaches to the problem of consciousness are
... to changes of the internal milieu, the internal organs and biochemical about the changes in one’s system, and therefore there is a sense of the core self: once an organism has this capacity to know that feelings are their feelings and to understand the sense of self associated with these feelings, c ...
... to changes of the internal milieu, the internal organs and biochemical about the changes in one’s system, and therefore there is a sense of the core self: once an organism has this capacity to know that feelings are their feelings and to understand the sense of self associated with these feelings, c ...
Introduction to Biological Psychology
... The smart unconscious: research by Dijksterhuis and Nordgren shows unconscious processing valuable for complex decisions where pros and cons are difficult to weigh ...
... The smart unconscious: research by Dijksterhuis and Nordgren shows unconscious processing valuable for complex decisions where pros and cons are difficult to weigh ...
Ch_02 - Computer Science
... Consciousness may be defined as the subjective quality of experience. What it is like for us to see, feel, think, etc. Consciousness is unitary, unlike brain activity. The phenomenal concept of mind refers to this subjective aspect of mental life and may never be adequately explained. The psychologi ...
... Consciousness may be defined as the subjective quality of experience. What it is like for us to see, feel, think, etc. Consciousness is unitary, unlike brain activity. The phenomenal concept of mind refers to this subjective aspect of mental life and may never be adequately explained. The psychologi ...
Darwinlecture_files/James copy
... given moment. A low brain does few things, and in doing them perfectly forfeits all other use. The performances of a high brain are like dice thrown forever on a table. Unless they be loaded, what chance is there that the highest number will turn up oftener than the lowest?’. The advantage to such u ...
... given moment. A low brain does few things, and in doing them perfectly forfeits all other use. The performances of a high brain are like dice thrown forever on a table. Unless they be loaded, what chance is there that the highest number will turn up oftener than the lowest?’. The advantage to such u ...
*What Is Consciousness?*
... I can sense the position of my limbs without looking/ hearing/ touching… but if you want to know where my limbs are, you have to look/ hear/ touch. This is because I have sensors hooked up to my limbs and you don’t. ...
... I can sense the position of my limbs without looking/ hearing/ touching… but if you want to know where my limbs are, you have to look/ hear/ touch. This is because I have sensors hooked up to my limbs and you don’t. ...
Baars_Memphis_Workshop_PRESENTATION
... processing of new information. Another system, associated with alpha activity, enables controlled access to already stored information, thereby providing us with the very basic ability to be ‘semantically’ oriented in continuously changing environments. ...
... processing of new information. Another system, associated with alpha activity, enables controlled access to already stored information, thereby providing us with the very basic ability to be ‘semantically’ oriented in continuously changing environments. ...
Chapter 16: Consciousness
... Research on split-brain patients has not fully resolved the issue of whether it is possible to have two separate consciousnesses. The most common view is that the left hemisphere plays the dominant role in consciousness because it acts as an interpreter of events. In contrast, the right hemisphere ...
... Research on split-brain patients has not fully resolved the issue of whether it is possible to have two separate consciousnesses. The most common view is that the left hemisphere plays the dominant role in consciousness because it acts as an interpreter of events. In contrast, the right hemisphere ...
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness: Continuum or
... research • It’s not clear how this works when trying to bridge the gap between human and artificial minds! – Perhaps any artificial consciousness will necessarily have to participate in intersubjectivity, on this view. – But of course there isn’t the same biological commonality between human and mac ...
... research • It’s not clear how this works when trying to bridge the gap between human and artificial minds! – Perhaps any artificial consciousness will necessarily have to participate in intersubjectivity, on this view. – But of course there isn’t the same biological commonality between human and mac ...
Visual Awareness - People.csail.mit.edu
... • Hard to define (it feels like…) • Francis Crick: – “There are two rather surprising aspects of our present knowledge of the visual system. The first is how much we already know—by any standards the amount is enormous… The other surprising thing is that, in spite of all this work, we really have no ...
... • Hard to define (it feels like…) • Francis Crick: – “There are two rather surprising aspects of our present knowledge of the visual system. The first is how much we already know—by any standards the amount is enormous… The other surprising thing is that, in spite of all this work, we really have no ...
Chapter 3
... Consciousness can take many forms, while other mental processes occur simultaneously outside our awareness ...
... Consciousness can take many forms, while other mental processes occur simultaneously outside our awareness ...
Personal Identity - U of L Class Index
... Souls, or minds as Descartes might prefer, also seem to persist as one and the same thing over time. So could possessing or ‘being animated by’ the same soul over time be what makes us the same person? Locke rejects this response as well: what counts is not the substance in which our consciousness i ...
... Souls, or minds as Descartes might prefer, also seem to persist as one and the same thing over time. So could possessing or ‘being animated by’ the same soul over time be what makes us the same person? Locke rejects this response as well: what counts is not the substance in which our consciousness i ...
Brain, Consciousness and free will Idan Segev
... At any given moment, only a limited amount of information is consciously accessed and defines the current conscious content, which is reportable verbally or by an intended gesture. At the same time, many other processing streams co-occur but remain nonconscious. ...
... At any given moment, only a limited amount of information is consciously accessed and defines the current conscious content, which is reportable verbally or by an intended gesture. At the same time, many other processing streams co-occur but remain nonconscious. ...
this - Athabasca Landing
... experience will ever exhaust the possibility of yet another complementary, or even potentially richer, description” (van Manen, 1984, p. 40) ...
... experience will ever exhaust the possibility of yet another complementary, or even potentially richer, description” (van Manen, 1984, p. 40) ...
Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits
... ceased; so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts and seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the children the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, “I am guarding you ― I a ...
... ceased; so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts and seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the children the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, “I am guarding you ― I a ...
Psychology
... structure changes the neuronal structure, as well – these logical changes are topological in nature which are mapped geometrically on neuronetwork structures. • Thoughts appear as topological defects or knots • Self-awareness or consciousness is generated as an non-orientable topological manifold (M ...
... structure changes the neuronal structure, as well – these logical changes are topological in nature which are mapped geometrically on neuronetwork structures. • Thoughts appear as topological defects or knots • Self-awareness or consciousness is generated as an non-orientable topological manifold (M ...
Conscience and conscious
... Conscience means moral sense, ethical feelings or one’s sense of right and wrong. ...
... Conscience means moral sense, ethical feelings or one’s sense of right and wrong. ...
Slide 1 - Elsevier
... FIGURE 51.3 The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) are the minimal set of neural events and structures—here synchronized action potentials in neocortical pyramidal neurons—sufficient for a specific conscious percept or memory. From Koch (2004). ...
... FIGURE 51.3 The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) are the minimal set of neural events and structures—here synchronized action potentials in neocortical pyramidal neurons—sufficient for a specific conscious percept or memory. From Koch (2004). ...
Consciousness
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: ""Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.""Western philosophers since the time of Descartes and Locke have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness and pin down its essential properties. Issues of concern in the philosophy of consciousness include whether the concept is fundamentally coherent; whether consciousness can ever be explained mechanistically; whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how can it be recognized; how consciousness relates to language; whether consciousness can be understood in a way that does not require a dualistic distinction between mental and physical states or properties; and whether it may ever be possible for computing machines like computers or robots to be conscious, a topic studied in the field of artificial intelligence.At one time consciousness was viewed with skepticism by many scientists, but in recent years it has become a significant topic of research in psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience. The primary focus is on understanding what it means biologically and psychologically for information to be present in consciousness—that is, on determining the neural and psychological correlates of consciousness. The majority of experimental studies assess consciousness by asking human subjects for a verbal report of their experiences (e.g., ""tell me if you notice anything when I do this""). Issues of interest include phenomena such as subliminal perception, blindsight, denial of impairment, and altered states of consciousness produced by alcohol and other drugs, or spiritual or meditative techniques.In medicine, consciousness is assessed by observing a patient's arousal and responsiveness, and can be seen as a continuum of states ranging from full alertness and comprehension, through disorientation, delirium, loss of meaningful communication, and finally loss of movement in response to painful stimuli. Issues of practical concern include how the presence of consciousness can be assessed in severely ill, comatose, or anesthetized people, and how to treat conditions in which consciousness is impaired or disrupted.