PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Problem Of Other Minds, Unconscious Mind, Caffeine
16 Jun 2016
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Consciousness: person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. How much something can experience and agency. Its different for every person, problem of other minds , not objective, private from everyone else"s. Consciousness is essential to what it means to be human . Experience and agency are the variables to measure consciousness: experience: ability to feel pain, pleasure, hunger, consciousness, anger or fear, agency: ability of self-control, planning, memory or thought. Phenomenology: how things appear to the conscious person. Great mysteries of the mind are the problem of other minds and mind-body problem . Problem of other minds: fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of other people. Zombie: hypothetically, an unconscious person who might do and say the same things as a conscious person would: but we"ll never know if there is ever an actual zombie though bc of the.
