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| Moment-by-moment awareness of self, thoughts and environment. |
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| Awareness without behaviour |
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Dreams.
Persistent vegetable state- commanded to imagine something (therefore not passive reaction) and same activity as control. |
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| The cognitive unconscious |
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| Mental support processes outside our awareness. |
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| Behaviour without awareness |
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Anterograde amnesia (can't make new memories)patients show normal performance on implicit memory tasks (memory separate from conscious awareness) even though no conscious recollection.
Blindsight (blind on opposite side to damage in brain)- use information from blind side to make decisions even though can't consciously see. |
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| Subjective personal experiences |
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Descartes
Physical/mental- separate. |
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Every element has two properties- mental and physical.
When physical matter is organised in a particular way= mental processes
EPIPHENOMENALISM: physical states cause mental properties.
*Biological Naturalism: more things than brains can be 'conscious'. |
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| Nothing is real, everything in our minds. |
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Unification of physical and mind.
Mental 'events' don't exist- biological explanations. |
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| Neural correlates of consciousness |
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| correlation between specific brain states and conscious experience. |
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| Global workspace hypothesis |
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Integration of information in a common workspace into a coherent whole. ATTENTION
Workspace neurons: connect brain areas |
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