PHIL-UA 73 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Direct And Indirect Realism, Swampman, Synesthesia
29 Nov 2017
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**combination of professor block"s notes and in-class lecture (content belonds to ned block) Scorecard for the transitivity principle: a perceptual state"s being phenomenally conscious consists in one"s being aware of oneself as being in that state. Good: source amnesia, gopnik baby experiments (children tried to hop into fake cars and tried to take animals out of the picture books, block says these experiments go beyond armchair philosophy . Bad: the inexistence of consciousness, lowered frontal activation with higher sensory experience. When there is a lot of sensory activation in the back of the brain, the frontal cortex is less active. You can have intensely conscious experiences where the probability of a higher order thought decreases. The frontal part of the brain does not work very well in babies; it is mostly perception. Around 6 months old, babies have a high ratio of perceptual to frontal synapses (however, babies are clearly conscious).
