PSY 0816 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Qualia, Computer Mouse, Classical Conditioning
7 May 2016
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Yes, they are awake, responsive, able to converse, laugh and show emotion. Without the capacity to lay down new memories, their self is a person trapped in the past, unrelated to the events and people present. They have lost the interaction between current and stored information. Amnesics crate no memory of a continuous self who lives their life, no illusion of a continuous self who lives there life. Describe neglect and anosagnosia explain thier neurological bases. Explain what blindsight tells us about the nature of typical conscious experience. He is an automaton or a partial zombie who can see functionally but has none of the visual qualia that go with normal seeing. This proves that consciousness is something separate from the ordinary processes of vision. It proves that qualia exist and functionalism is wrong. Chalmers: said if zombies do exist than qualia does exist. Blind sight is further evidence that zombies can exist.
