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According to Roser, what does conscious experience involve? |
disunited processes that are integrated in a dynamic manner. |
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According to Roser, consciousness could work in what kind of fashion? |
as a threshold. |
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According to Roser, what determines if a process is conscious or not (regarding a network)? |
1: Process occuring in one region might be visible only once they are integrated in other domains This means consciousness would be the collection of modular processes that are mobilized into a common neuronal work space and integrated in a dynamic fashion. |
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According to Ramachandran, What does qualia means? |
It is the raw feeling of sensation such as the subjective quality of pain or red. |
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According to Ramachandran, what is the origin of the barrier between first and third person data? |
It is due to a language barrier as neuronal activity for a qualia cannot be translated in english language. |
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What are two theories behind qualia? |
1: activation in the temporal lobes from primary sensory areas 2: synchronous firing |
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What is reductionism? What is the problem? |
Belief that a whole may be represented as a function. can never know what is the appropriate level of reductionism though. |
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What is the epipjenomena theory of consciousness and qualia? |
that they do not influence the function of the mind. |
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What are the three laws of qualia? |
1It is irrevocable: 2representation must exist long enough for one to work with 3 Sensation offer the luxury of choice. |
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What does it mean that an image is temper resistant? |
It's perception cannot be changed it remains as is . |
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What is the biological advantage of having a temper-resistant qualia? |
You need reliable perception in order to do a reliable decision. |
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You have a blind spot in yyour brain but you cannot perceive it. this is an example of what? |
It is an example of fill in where qualia is supposed to be irrevocable. |
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WHat is the difference between the gap filling of your blind spot and the not gap filling behind your head ? |
Blind spot: filling because no threat back of head : no filling because potential threat . |
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According to Ramachandran, where should be the region responsible for consciousness and why> |
Temporal lobes; only place where you have a distorted reality. |
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According to Ramachandran, qualia and consciousness is involved at which stage of consciousness? |
INtermediate. |
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According to Ramachandran, what are the characteristics that defines the self? |
Embodied self ( body image) ( parietal) passionate self: Emotions ( temporal) executive self: Self awareness of action ( parietal) Mnemonic self: personal identity ( temporal lobe) Unified self : unity Vigilant self: conceptual/social self: |
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What is akinetic mutism and it is due to what ? |
Patient is unwilling to do anything: will not initiate action or anything despite being conscious. due to anetrior cingulate gyrus. |
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What happens if you only partially damage the anterior cingulate? |
Can have uncontrolled hand |
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According to Ramachandran, what would be filling in for? |
A preperation of qualia for enabling interact properly with limbic executive structures. |
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What is penduncular hallucinosis? What causes it? |
Visual hallucinations caused by over excitation of clusters of cells stimulating the intralaminar thalamic nuclei. |
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According to Chalmers, What is thrid person data? |
concern brain behavior and processes of conscious systems |
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According to Chalmers, what is first person data? |
Subjective experiences of conscious systems |
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According to Chalmers,what is necessary to explain third person data. does this apply to first persn data? |
Need to describe mechanism of function through reductionism. FIrst person is not conerned with this hence it is irreducible to third person data. |
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What are the four premises set by Chalmers? |
1)3rd person data objective structures and dynamic of physical systems 2)low lvl structure and dynamic explains only fact about high level structure dynamics 3)Structure and dynamic is not enough for 1rst person data 4)First person data cannot be explained in 3rd person |
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According to Chalmers, explaining 1rst person data in 3rd person would have to involve what ? |
Non reductionnism. |
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WHat are th e6 projects that Chalmer suggest for the explanation of first person data to the 3rd person data? |
Explain 3rd person Contrast conscious vs unconscious Investigate contents of consciousness Find Neural correlates of consciousness Systemize connections Infer fundamental principles |
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According to Chalmers, what are the obstacles for the 3rd person data? |
Data availability constrainedby technological advances Precise data aquisition is limited to non humans |
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According to Chalmers, what are the obstacles for the 1rst person data? |
Privacy: only directly available to the person experiencing the image verbal reports is subject to unreliability Methods: SUbject lackof introspect ; unreliable verbal report Formalism: completly absent |
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According to Chalmers, why is formality important? |
Important for data gathering Important for theory construction |
