PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sleep Deprivation, Cosmic Consciousness, Magnetoreception
27 Jan 2017
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Quantum scientists: consciousness= subjective experience(in some way it"s you the entity) Living things are conscious even when they appear not to be. Subjectivity of experience- the hard problem of consciousness . Anything we deem as personal, with emotional content. Large discrepancies between what we believe we see, and what we actually see. Thought and behavior can be influenced by stimuli not experienced consciously. Subliminal perception : the processing of information by sensory system without. Freudian slips: expressions of unconscious thought in inappropriate social contexts. Circadian rhythms , biological patterns that occur at regular intervals as a function of time of day. Rapid eye movements, dreaming, paralysis of motor systems: paradoxical sleep, 80% dreaming occurs in rem sleep, we cycle through rem 5x per night. Sleep allows rest and repair: sleep increases after physical activity, growth hormones secreted. Sleep strengthens neutral connections needed for learning to occur. Insomnia, sleep apnea(stop breathing during sleep), rem behavior disorder(acting out vivid dreams), somnambulism.
