PHLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wine Tasting, Internet Slang, Confabulation
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Important kind of consciousness: state consciousness: to have state consciousness is to have a particular kind of thought a higher- order thought (hot) David rosenthal: philosopher at cuny, works in philosophy of mind, cognitive science. State consciousness: mental states can be conscious or unconscious. Pains: (cid:862)[a] (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal state is (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious if it is a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)ied (cid:271)y a spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) type of thought(cid:863) (406-7, a higher-order thought (hot) Higher-o(cid:396)de(cid:396) thought: (cid:862)i (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e that pe(cid:374)gui(cid:374)s (cid:272)a(cid:374) fly(cid:863) A mental state is conscious if it is accompanied by a hot. Transitive and state consciousness: state consciousness being in a conscious state. You are perceiving something do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)ily (cid:374)eed to (cid:271)e a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e of it. Thinking about something: transitive consciousness being aware of something, or attending to something. You a(cid:396)e a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e that you"(cid:396)e perceiving something. You a(cid:396)e a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e that you"(cid:396)e feeling something. You a(cid:396)e a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e that you"(cid:396)e thinking about: you cannot have state consciousness without transitive consciousness.
