PSYC 100 Chapter 5: Psyc 100 chapter 5 notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Anesthesia for surgery leaves the patient unconscious. Conscious and unconscious: the mind"s eye, open and closed. Consciousness: a person"s subjective experience of the world and the mind. Phenomenology: how things seem to the conscious person (wont ask about this) : the problems of the other minds. Problem of other minds : the fundamental dif culty we have in perceiving the consciousness of others. Hypothetical non-conscious person a zombie (may say they are conscious but they aren"t) Zombie can talk about experience and even seem to react to them but might not be having any inner experience at all. People judge minds according to the capacity for experience (such as the ability to feel pain, pleasure, hunger, consciousness, anger, or fear) and the capacity for agency (such as the ability for self-control, planning, memory, or thought) Monday, february 29, 2016: the mind-body problem. Mind-body problem : the issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body.