COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Weak Ai, Emergence, John Searle
27 Oct 2017
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Conscious as opposed to being asleep or in a coma (unconscious) Consciousness as one"s own individual private mental life (opposite subconscious) Being conscious of various aspects of one"s existence, actions and environment as awarene. Awareness is considered as a prerequisite for consciousness. You are in a region where a sudden outbreak of plague occurs. Consciousness is also defined as the subjective quality of experience. Mary the colorblind neuroscientist who is well versed about the object knowledge o experienced it herself. Take away: knowledge cannot generate the subjective experience. Philosophers have tried to understand and explore mind in various ways. Reductionist way is to try to define the whole as a sum of the components. Not always applicable and doesn"t take into account the interaction of the componen. John searle (1992) defines consciousness as an emergent property of the brain. The interaction of parts gives rise to new property as h2o is liquid and transparent u.
