Topic 11: Consciousness

___ is the idea that the mind and the brain exist separately (but can be linked in some way)

dualism

___ or ___ : ideas are the only real thing, the world isnt real

monism/idealism

___ or ___: brain is the only real thing, "mind" is created by the material world

monism/materialism

___: everything in the world has consciousness

panpsychism

The perspective that consciousness is a global workspace is the idea that consciousness is the ___ ___ to the entire ___

information accessible/brain

Consciousness is a global workspace perspective: consciousness is created by different groups of __ and __ areas, until one of them __ __ and takes over the frontal areas

sensory/premotor/wins out

Consciousness is integrated information perspective: takes a __ approach

mathematical

Consciousness is integrated information perspective: defines a __ __ that quantifies how much a __ is putting together different sources of ___

single number/brain/information

Consciousness is integrated information perspective: there (are/arent) levels of consciousness

are

Consciousness is integrated information perspective: applied to (some/any) physical systems

any

Consciousness is HOT perspective: HOT refers to a ...

higher order thought

Consciousness is HOT perspective example:

HOT view says that consciousness of red is a matter of three ingredients:

1) a representation with the content red
2) a higher order though
3) 2 is looking at 1 and trying to understand

If you have all three, some form of consciousness will arrive

yes

Consciousness is hard to understand perspective: does not rule out ___

panpsychism

When studying consciousness, you look for __ of the __ that are __ when __ occurs

find something other than self-reported conscious perception that correlated strongly with self-reports: used to describe what?

no-report paradigm

compare the brain state between two different brain states where the experimenter doesn't need to rely on self-reporting: an example of what?

between-states paradigm

control for the state of the subject (ex: sleep and awake) and simply determine after the fact whether or not they had a conscious experience: an example of what?

within-state, no-task paradigm

there is __ __ hot-zone for consciousness

posterior cortical

__ __ is a prerequisite for consciousness

reticular formation

__ __ plays a big role in facilitating consciousness, but doesnt play a role in consciousness itself

reticular formation

__ and __ not needed for consciousness

cerebellum/basal ganglia

severe damage to cerebellum effects __ __ but not __

motor control/consciousness

severe basal ganglia damage may effect ___ but not __

alertness/consciousness