PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Religious Ecstasy, The Leaves, Diazepam
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Anesthesia for surgery is supposed to leave the patient unconscious, feeling no pain, and yet in this case and in about one in a thousand other operations (sandin et al. , New methods of monitoring wakefulness by measuring the electrical activity of the brain are being developed. Consciousness is a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Psychologists hope to include an understanding of phenomenology, how things seem to the conscious person, in their understanding of mind and behavior. One great mystery is called the problem of other minds, the fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving the consciousness of other. Philosophers have called this hypothetical nonconscious person a zombie, in reference to the living-yet-dead creatures of horror films. Zombie could talk about experiences ( the lights are so bright! ) and even seem to react to them (wincing and turning away) but might not be having any inner experience at all.
