PSYC1001 Final: Consciousness
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What is consciousness: very tricky to define, awake vs asleep, conscious colour of red, working definition. Varies depending on study being undertaken: content of consciousness, psyc is the science of the mind / behav. We might know how to fix it when it goes wrong. Definition: refers to the subjective awareness of mental events, serves at least 2 functions, monitoring the self and the envir, controlling thought and behav. States of consciousness: are qualitatively diff patterns of subjective experience. Include ways of experience both internal / external events. Attention: refers to process of focusing conscious awareness, providing heightened sensitivity to a limited range of experience requiring more extensive info processing. Francis crick: the astonishing hypothesis: monism, you are your brain, most people don(cid:495)t believe it. But what if i am being tricked: what can be doubted, what is he sure of, but he could not doubt that he himself was doing the thinking, method of doubt.
