PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cerebral Achromatopsia, Photodiode, Brain Death

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Describe leaving their bodies and seeing themselves being operated on: even when you an unconscious, you can still apprehend things. Notion of separation from our bodies exists in different religions: plato"s dualism physical body accessed by another entity, like a soul. Thought that pineal gland had to do with this, but pineal gland releases sex hormones. There isn"t a brain region especially associated with consciousness. Competing w dualism: monism: idea there is only matter, & every conscious experience we have is a consequence; principal of. The ghost in the machine ; emergent property of complex machinery. Think about what consciousness means to us, it"s not always obvious: not everything we know is actually conscious. Blind-sight lose ability to see from the cortical level, but they can see (they can navigate and visualize their spatial surroundings); vision is not available to conscious access. What is consciousness: operational definition: awareness of subjective experience or can report own mental state more measureable.