Boof PH Final

The parts and activities of the brain are connected to conscious experiences

neural correlates of consciousness

damage to the hippocampus that causes people to retain existing long-term memories but lose the ability to gain new existing long-term memories.

anterograde amnesia

when a person can respond to things they see although they do not realize they can see them.

blindsight

According to color realism, colors ____ have the colors they appear to have.

do / typically

The back, inner layer of the eye where images are formed is called the _____.

retina

In the David Lewis's paper, Mary, the captive color scientist, lives her whole life in a black-and white cell, yet she becomes the world's top expert on _____.

color & color vision

When it makes sense to describe the causal components of the system as having purposes or functions, we describe its causal role as its _____.

teleological role

The theory of consciousness that holds that the brain is organized around a special, functionally central area of the brain, and that mental events are conscious only if they gain access to this area and take place there is called _____.

Global workspace theory

According to Descartes, _____ is spatial three-dimensionality, the attribute of whatever has length, breadth and depth.

extension

Visible light varies in wavelength from about 380 nanometers to about _____ nanometers.

700

The eye transmits incoming light through the cornea, pupil and lens to form an image of the back, inner layer of the eye called the _____.

retina

Pairs of different light stimuli, with different spectral compositions, that are nevertheless perceived as the same color are called _____.

metamers

Colors that are perceived as the purest hues of red, yellow, green and blue and are not perceived as mixtures of other colors are called _____.

unique hues

Consciousness happens when parts of a system work together and share information

The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

what anyone clearly & distinctly perceives is true.

Descartes's Principle

explaining something complicated by breaking it down into smaller parts

scientific reduction

when a mental state is about or directed toward some object or state of affairs beyond itself

mental state have intentionality

Behaves just like a human but has no conscious experience.

philosophical zombie

No room for error, finds best/ most correct answer.

metaphysical certainty

enough evidence for the proposition that is sufficient for the application to ordinary life.

moral certainty

Since human actions are guided and shaped by future directed conceptions of desired outcomes, we say those actions are...

teleological

Because human beings are sometimes the self-controlled agents of their own actions, we say that human beings act...

Autonomously

According to Coyne and Gazzaniga, Free Will Incompatibilism is true, and the Causal Determinism Doctrine is true, so the Free Will Doctrine is...

false

internal impression we feel and our conscious of when we knowingly give rise to any new motion of our body, or new perception of our mind.

force of will

According to Spinoza, there is only one...

Substance

The two ways of looking at God, according to Spinoza, are natura naturans and...

Natura naturata

According to Kepler's First Law, the shape of each planet's orbit about is an...

Ellipse

According to Newton's first law of motion, a body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless it is acted upon by a...

force

Thomas Reid said we have a power to determine what happens. We call this power...

agent causation

Wegner calls the actual relationship between mind and action, which is open to scientific investigation, the...

Empirical will

What does it mean that neurological explanations of religious experiences are naturalistic?

The experience is accounted for through natural causes without the supernatural.

What is the causal determination doctrine?

That every event, including human actions is predetermined by prior events in accordance with natural laws.

What is free will compatibilism?

That free will and casual determinism are not mutually exclusive and can be both true at the same time.

What is alien hand syndrome?

When a person has a neurological condition in which one hand acts in ways the person does not consciously control, it has a will of its own.

What is the table turning phenomenon?

automatism, when things are subconsciously done or moved, like a ouija board.

What is Universal Causal Determinism?

The idea that everything is predetermined by prior events and laws of nature, leaving no room for alterate outcomes.

What is Laplacian Determinism?

The idea that there is a super intelligent being that knows all and can perfectly predict the future and past.

How does Immanual Kant think we must think of ourselves when we consider ourselves as moral agents?

Kant says we must think of ourselves as free and rational beings not subject to natural causation.

Some people believe God's actions are eternal. What does that mean?

This means they exist outside of time, without begining or end.

What does it mean to say God is omniscient?

God knows all truths, past, present and future completely and infallibly.