PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Pineal Gland, Lucid Dream, Unconscious Mind
12 Dec 2014
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Chapter 5: consciousness person"s subjective experience of world & mind defining feature experience. Have when you"re awake/having vivid dream essential to what it means to be human. Consciousness & unconscious: mind"s eye, open & closed. Problem of other minds fundamental difficulty we have in perceiving consciousness of others no clear was to distinguish conscious person from someone who might do & say all same things as conscious person but who is not conscious. Called zombie person themselves are only thing in universe that will ever know what it is like to be no way you can tell if another person"s experience of anything is at all like yours. Mind-body problem issue of how mind is related to brain & body french philosopher & mathematician ren descartes (1596-1650) Human body is machine made of physical matter but human mind/soul is separate entity made of thinking substance .
