Consciousness
- Created by: Olivia Grace Matthews
- Created on: 12-01-16 15:20
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- Consciousness
- Black and White Mary
- Thought experiment by Frank Jackson
- When Mary went outside she learnt what it is like to be conscious of colour
- Jackson changed his mind and said...
- Being conscious of colour is different to knowing how colour is experienced
- The essence of conscious is what Mary learns
- Learns what it is like to see colour
- We expect Mary to have no knowledge of colour despite knowing everything the brain does in seeing colour
- Phenomenal Character
- Phenomenalism: the view that there are only sensations (things that appear)
- How a thing appears when experienced
- Responses to Mary
- Daniel Dennett - Mary wouldn't be surprised at all when she sees colour
- David Lewis - Mary learns a new ability, red perception
- Two Kinds of Knowledge
- Prepositional Knowledge - Knowledge of facts
- 'Know-how'
- Alternate models of consciousness
- Dennet and Lewis' view are forms of physicalism
- Attempts to show consciousness is part of physical system in the world
- Reductivism
- Explain consciousness in terms of other things
- Black and White Mary
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