when a person is awake but shows no signs of consciousness
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what is the study of Owen et al?
imagine playing tennis vs imagine in a big maze... doing each of these is associated with a particular pattern of brain activity in healthy people - patient in veg state same pattern in consciousness as control group, unlikely automatic reaction
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examples where behaviour isn't present when consciousness is?
dreaming during sleep and awareness in vegetative state
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examples where consciousness isn't always present when behaviour is?
blindsight and amnesia
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what is introspection?
pps express what they are thinking/seeing/feeling in a systematic way and quantify answers to test hypotheses
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qualia??
qualia??
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what is the inverted spectrum argument? who was it by?
John Locke, nothing about the physical nature of wavelength of light say that one colour has to look one way or the other… It is a construction of consciousness
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what is substance dualism?
mind and body are separate substances, Physical substances have mass, position and volume, but the nature of mind substance is does not have these properties
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what is property dualism?
Mental entities are not separate from physical matter, instead, they are extra properties of physical matter When physical matter is organised in particular ways, mental properties may emerge
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Epiphenomenalism
Epiphenomenalism
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what are the two types of monism?
idealism and materialism
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what is idealism?
physical features of the world are an illusion and we can only know mental events
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what is materialism?
mind events are equivalent to brain events, only physical entities exist
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what does neural correlates of consciousness mean?
how brain activity and conscious experience change together
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flipping consciousness??
flipping consciousness?
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what is the global workspace hypothesis?
different brain areas are specialised for different things, but some functions require integration of information - info in different areas needs binding in a common "workspace"... 1 way to bind into is to pay attention to both items at the same time
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what are the global workspace hypothesis mechanisms?
synchrony/coherence/communications with workspace neurons determines what is conscious, non coordinated synchronous activity isn't consciously perceived
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what is the study of Owen et al?
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imagine playing tennis vs imagine in a big maze... doing each of these is associated with a particular pattern of brain activity in healthy people - patient in veg state same pattern in consciousness as control group, unlikely automatic reaction
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examples where behaviour isn't present when consciousness is?
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