PSYC10003 Lecture 34: PSYC10003 12. Consciousness
12. Consciousness
What is Consciousness?
• As a state: eig aake Bakgroud osiousess apait to e osious of thigs
• Of oe’s self: sese of oe’s persoal idetit, attitudes, beliefs
• Of eleets: ualia, the sujetive expeiee of edess, the stea of osiousess
• The Hard Prole because we have to bridge the gap between the objective brain functions and
subjective experience that we want to understand
• Others sa there is o hard prole ad uderstadig the eas proles ill result i
understanding consciousness
The Stream of Consciousness
• Is osiousess a thig ad is it separate fro the rai/od?
• Descartes
• His view known as Substance Dualism: There are two substances
o Res cogitans: the mental realm
o Rest extensa: physical realm
• Limitation: we have to believe in magic as nothing like that has ever been shown
• Alternative is Monism: there is just one thing: either everything is mind (consciousness), or everything
is matter (can be explained by physics)
Idealism
• Bishop George Berkeley (1710)
• to e is to e pereied
• the universe is occupied by minds
• permanence of objects is because of God’s
Perception
Materialism
• all entities and phenomena are
manifestations of matter
• everything must obey the laws of physics
• does this eplai aa the prole of
subjectivity?
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