PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Étienne Bonnot De Condillac, Binocular Rivalry, Qualia
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18th century french philosopher etienne bonnot de condillac asked readers to imagine a statue with no senses (thus no mental life). Then he imagined adding the statue"s nose so the mental life would consist of only that smell. By adding more senses and experience, he imagined a real mental life developing: researchers studying topics in sensation and perception can be found in biology, computer science, medicine, neuroscience, and many other fields. Method 1: thresholds: example, what"s the faintest/loudest sound you can hear. You can change the threshold for the faintest sound if you listened to sounds that are too loud and damage your auditory system. Method 2: scaling measuring private experience: quale (pl. Qualia): in philosophy, a private conscious experience of sensation or perception: we still have no direct way to experience someone else"s experiences but we can demonstrate that people inhabit different sensory worlds. Method 3: signal detection theory measuring difficult.
