PS2822 week 11 Consciousness

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idealist view on consciousness
Mind controls the body

Only mental phenomena exist
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Physicalist view on consciousness
Mind arises from the brain.

For every mental event there is corresponding brain event
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Neuromorphic
neuromorphic has been used to describe analog, digital, and mixed-mode analog/digital VLSI and software systems that implement models of neural systems (for perception, motor control, or multisensory integration).
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Neuroprosthetic
A motor neuroprosthetic device is a device that can monitor and decode the electrical language of the user's thoughts and convert that information into some type of overt machine control
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Neural Correlate of Consciousness : the easy problem
Understanding our ability to discriminate and categorise stimuli, the integration of the information, and our ability to access our own internal states and the deliberate control of behaviour.
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Conscious content
Information we are aware of.
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Conscious level
State of consciousness
From coma through to alert wakefulness
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Phenomenal consciousness
Feelings, sensation and orienting to the present moment
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Access consciousness
Ability to reason, to reflect, to have a sense of self, that extend beyond the current moment.
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Perceiving the environment: role of unconscious process
The unconscious socialisation goal impaired proofreading performance in participants for whom socialisation is an important goal.
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Social communication
It is possible that ‘awareness’ originally developed to understand others and only later did we develop self-awareness.
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Controlling our actions
Free will is the ability to make choices and to determine one’s own outcome free from constraints”

Free will is an illusion. Our actions are caused by unconscious process.
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Assessing consciousness
Actual conscious experience is much richer than our ability to report it.
Reports are limited due to attention, memory and inner speech limitations.

Distinction between objective or subjective thresholds.

Under-reporting of visual arrays
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Physicalist view on consciousness

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Mind arises from the brain.

For every mental event there is corresponding brain event

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Neuromorphic

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Neuroprosthetic

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Neural Correlate of Consciousness : the easy problem

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