PSYC 101 Chapter Notes -Corpus Callosum, Franz Mesmer, Split-Brain
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Consciousness exists b/c of the nature of human brain but just how this occurs is not known. Our brains may not be simply able to understand biology of subjective awareness. Lack means to study it scientifically: people are conscious, this consciousness in produced by the activity of the human brain. Consciousness is the awareness of mental processes, not the processes themselves. Consciousness is a private experience that cannot be shared directly. We are not conscious of everything about ourselves. We are not equally conscious if the same thing all the time. Blindsight- ability to interact behaviourally with objects while remaining consciously unaware of them. Consciousness can be viewed as by-product of our ability to communicate symbolically. Physiological basis is activity of the language mechanisms of the brain. Private use of language (thinking to oneself) is clearly conscious. Private non-verbal processes are conscious if we can describe them.
