Koch

Front 1

dualism

Back 1

mind & body interaction
Descartes
Aristotle

Front 2

mind-body problem

Back 2

1. relation between conscious & chemistry mind

i.e. we see red, neurons fire red, why not blue?

Front 3

patient DF

Back 3

visual agnosia
zombie agents

-does not

Front 4

zombies

Back 4

just like us, no consciousness

Front 5

zombie agents

Back 5

polyneurons generate unconscious behavior (a reflex)

Front 6

dualism

Back 6

• Consciousness depends on an immaterial
soul.
– Descartes
– Aristotle
– religious traditions


• Problem: interaction.
- immaterial vs material
- energy physical vs nonmaterial

Front 7

mysterianism

Back 7

consciousness is to complex for human understanding

-does he believe in consciousness, but state in it's nature, we can never fully understand it?

Front 8

eliminativism

Back 8

Consciousness is illusory
• Traces back to behaviorism
• “Pain” is not a subjective state, but a complex
form of behaviors and dispositions.
• [Also called “eliminativism,” in the sense that
it basically argues that consciousness does
not exist.]
• Problem: This just flies in the face of intuition.

Front 9

quantum physics

Back 9

Quantum Approaches
• consciousness may be based
on quantum physics

– Penrose: a theory of quantum gravity will explain
how we can do things that no computers can do
(this also involves a consideration of Gödel’s
theorem)
– Penrose and Hameroff: microtubules facilitate
these quantum states and thus contribute to
consciousness.

• Problem: this is just a way of saying we have
two mysteries--quantum gravity and
consciousness--so they should be connected.
– Koch will say we don’t need exotic new physics to
explain the miracle of consciousness

Front 10

information consciousness

Back 10

Chalmers
panpsychism
simple to complex
(thermo to human)

any system which processes
information has consciousness.

• Problem: not testable, though it may be true