NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - 18 Months, Neuropsychology, Artificial Neuron
7 Mar 2013
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Defining consciousness: the awareness of environmental and cognitive events such as the sights and sounds of the world as well as ones memories, thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. Experience that resembles perceptual experience, but which occurs in the absence of the appropriate stimuli for the relevant perception. Any of the senses: sights, sounds, feelings Ability to discriminate, categorize, and react to environmental stimuli. The integration of information by a cognitive system. The report ability of mental states (consciousness is the awareness of your current mental states, therefore you are able to report on your state) The ability of a system to access its own internal states. The focus of attention (what you are paying attention to is what you are conscious of, you can be conscious of in your periphery, yet your attention may not entirely be there. Chalmers (1996) suggests the previous aspects of consciousness will eventually be explained scientifically. He calls these the easy problems of consciousness .
