GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Materialism, Reflex Arc, Biophysics

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 73A
• Professor: Chandler, S.H.

Document Summary

Theories of consciousness: descartes, locke, neural workspaces and multiple drafts . Consciousness as neural circuitry: automata and artificial intelligence. Consciousness as the subjective perception of self and others: animal experimentation. Dene du perron descartes (1596-1650) i think therefore i am. To never accept anything as true unless it is so clear and distinct as to exclude all ground of doubt . To divide every problem into smallest parts. To proceed from the simples to the most complex. To enumerate all aspects of a problem; omit nothing. A person has an amputated limb but can still feel the pain as if were still there) All knowledge gained from my senses may be illusory. Only that there must be an i that asks this question; who imagines and perceives. My mind therefore is real and its perception of things (aside from their qualities) is also real.