PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Qualia, Molecular Machine, Sigmund Freud
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Consciousness is used in everyday life and in medical terms. Doctors may associate consciousness with awareness and being awake. Psychologists may associate consciousness with what you are aware of, what you are paying attention to; you can be awake but not paying attention to something. Another definition is what you stand for and a sense of ourselves, self-awareness. Some groups do not think we should use consciousness as a thing, more like a state, an adjective. We use the word, consciousness in different contexts that may change what it means. (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess(cid:863) as a (cid:374)ou(cid:374), i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)al state that (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) thi(cid:374)gs (cid:272)o(cid:373)e i(cid:374)to. Everything we perceive; we always want to act upon. Selective attention, in which we choose to pay attention to certain things in the world out of many things in the world. Sometimes we direct our attention/consciousness, or the environment can direct our attention.
