PSYCH261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Binocular Rivalry, David Chalmers, Flash Suppression

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH261
• Professor: Daniel Smilek

Document Summary

Module 13. 3 conscious and unconscious processes and attention. Dualism: the belief that mind and body are different kinds of substance that exist independently. A: dualism contradicts the law of the conservation of matter and energy. According to that law, the only way to influence matter and energy, including that of your body, is to act on it with other matter and energy. The alternative to dualism is monism which is the belief that the universe consists of only one kind of substance. Materialism: the view that everything that exists is material, or physical. Mentalism: the view that only minds really exist and that the physical world could not exist unless some mind were aware of it. Identity position: the view that mental processes and certain kinds of brain processes are the same thin, described in different terms; says the mind is brain activity. David chalmers distinguished between what he calls the easy problems and the hard problem of consciousness.