PSYC 211- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 102 pages long!)
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We generally don(cid:495)t attribute awareness to a plant or a tree thoughts, perceptions, memories, feelings This state of awareness creates a subjective experience. If a being is capable of having subjective experiences, then there is something that it is like to be that being. Let(cid:495)s define consciousness as the state or quality of awareness awareness of our. Neuroscientists generally believe that consciousness and (cid:498)the mind(cid:499) arise from. What is it like to be a calculator or computer or robot? neural processes located somewhere in the brain. They are physiological functions that evolved through evolution. Consciousness can be altered by physical or chemical manipulations to the brain person world and their state of consciousness. In part, this idea comes from the fact that consciousness can be profoundly altered by physical or chemical alterations to the brain (i. e. brain damage & psychotropic drugs). You can make a cut in the brain and change the person(cid:495)s perception of the.
