NEUR 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crossmodal, Atrophy, Chronometry
1 Mar 2018
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Use humans as a model to look at the entire evolution of consciousness. Online: majority of content from readings, some lecture, etc. (45 min) in class: only lecture content (5-6 quizzes, select top 3) Lecture 1 - conceptual foundations: philosophy of consciousness. Lecture 2 - from philosophy to a working framework & the phenomenon and its. The basics: from philosophy to a working framework. What makes a pattern of neural activity a conscious experience has nothing directly to do with its intrinsic material properties, and everything to do with its causal role. Searle (1987) on the computational theory of mind (cid:862)now this view has some interesting consequences. The physical world is all that exists. All (natural) phenomena are, by their fundamental nature, physical (the notion of (cid:863)ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al(cid:863) he(cid:396)e i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes chemical, biological, and neural phenomena) Mental phenomena (including conscious mental phenomena) are nothing over and above physical phenomena; they are identical with (some) physical phenomena.
