PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Delta Wave, Jet Lag, Hallucinogen
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Seems like an easy question to answer. The question has been around for a long time. Moment to moment awareness of ourselves and environment. Perform many mental functions without being aware of it. Subjective and private: others cannot directly know our reality (and vice versa) Self-reflective: mind is aware of its own consciousness. Reflections on the nature of consciousness have been part of many spiritual traditions like buddhism. Early psychologists defined psych as entirely the study of consciousness until the 20th century where they shifted to observable behaviour. Willia(cid:373) ja(cid:373)es (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed the te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:862)st(cid:396)ea(cid:373) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess(cid:863) to sig(cid:374)if(cid:455) ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e our conscious life because consciousness, like a running stream, keeps moving yet seems to be the same. Multiple brain processes and structures must be operating simultaneously for us to be conscious of our world or ourselves. When we are awake, most, if not all neurons are working.
