Psychology 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Francis Crick, Lucid Dream, Qualia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Jody Culham

Document Summary

Skepticism about studying consciousness but that changed in the 1990s with technologies like fmri. Francis crick: studied consciousness after discovery of dna. The astonishing hypothesis : you, in your joys, memories and sorrows, sense of personality and free will are no more than nerve cells and their associated molecules: everyone wanted to study consciousness after that. Different variations of studying consciousness = easy problem + hard problem. We know what the color red looks like to us and can agree on it, but not sure if our perception is the same. Could spend whole life studying bats + how they use echolocation would never know qualia of what it is like to be a bat even if study it. I think therefore i am" - only thing you are 100% sure of is that you are aware. Study consciousness by looking at states of mind: arousal, or wakefulness.