PHIL 1F91 Chapter : Conscious and the self DVD
7 Mar 2012
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The 3 aspects of her definition of consciousness : awareness, attention and self-reference. Being conscious is related to having a neo-cortex. When you have cortical damage you can lose subjective experiences. This is why believe neo-cortex related to conscious. The usual distinction between the easy and the hard problems of consciousness. Consciousness is actively maintained because of stimulation of particular brain areas. Ascending reticular activating system (aras) maintains the conscious state. A person can be conscious but not aware. Hard- why is neural activity accompanied by an internal subjective experience? . Her distinction between the hard, harder and hardest problems of consciousness why do we have subjective experience? hardest: consciousness appears to be a something that is happening to a me . Qualia, an idea first mentioned in ultimate questions. Subjective quality of an experience for example the experience of blue. The interesting toad that has no neo-cortex but can see. doesn t have discriminatory vision.
