PSYC 1101 Lecture 3: Consciousness and Sleep
14 Feb 2017
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Song of the day: zombie - fela kuti. Consciousness: subjective experience of the world and the mind. Cartesian theater: mental screen or stage for which things appear to be presented for viewing by the mind"s eye. Emergent property: they can be thought of as unexpected behaviors that stem from interaction between the components of an application and their environment. Challenges mind-brain identity; notion of pure physicalism. Intentionality of consciousness: directing consciousness towards an object. Unity of consciousness: consciousness" resistance to division. Selectivity of consciousness: consciousness" capacity to include some objects and not others. This property is shown through dichotic listening. Cocktail party phenomenon: people tune in to one message even while they filter out others nearby. Transience of consciousness: the tendency for consciousness to change. William james used a stream of consciousness metaphor. Minimal consciousness: low-level kind of sensory awareness and responsiveness that occurs when the mind inputs sensations and may output behavior.
