CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Hypnosis, Color Blindness, Physicalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Connie Kristiansen

Document Summary

What is consciousness: consciouness can be related to the mind and body problem, when you perceive something, feel ex: anger and when you are aware. It"s subjective aspects of the self damasio: states: that when we wake up our self return, this self tell us that we exist as an individual, It is said that people are unconscious once they sleep or are under anesthesia. 2: we could use drugs that alters consciouness such as psychoactive drugs: which could either block neurotransmitter, increase the release of neurotransmitters . It is the study of consciouness and experience. Easy and hard problem: this is not really against nagel explanation but takes another approach to explain what is consciouness: easy problem: here it focuses on attention, integrating info. Takes more of a physical (physicalist) explanation thus can only be attentive through the physical mechanism that is in our brain: hard problem it is more on what nagel focuses on, thus subjective experience.