What are the two distinct aspects of the mind?
- phenomenal consciousness
- Psychological consciousness
= combined is a conscious mental state
= Seperate, they can not understand the mind completly
What is meant by phenomenal conciousness ?
- > The Qualia
- Explains the concept of mind via conscious experience
- Conscious experinced are characterised by the way it feels
- example: Sensation
What is meant by psychological consciousness ?
- Explains the concept of mind the via explanatory basis (information processing) for behaviour
- Consciouss experienced are characteristed by the way it does
- Example would be learning and memory
- Also called awareness
What is so special abbout the phenomenal conscousness ?
- It can only be accesed by the first person
What is so special about the psychological consciousness?
- it can be accesed by the 3 person
how can specific mental concepts be described (so not the whole mind together)?
- Either via the phenomenal consciousness
- Or via the Psycchological consciousness
- Or via both combined most likely
Name a few examples for concepts which can be described via the phenomenal consciousness:
- Every kind of sensation
1. pain (emotions)
2. hot or cold
3. tactile
4. Hunger
5. Rich experiences (visual and auditory combined)
Name a few examples for concepts which can be described via the psychological consciousness:
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What is meant by double life ?
- If consciousness concepts wants to be expalined they are often explained by Pssychological and phenomenal consciousness since they tend to co occur (bounded toegther)
- But some dual conceps are still more one sided such as sensation (more phenomenal)
What is meant by the deflationary concept ?
- That consciousness is purely based on psychological consciousness
What is meant by the inflationary concept ?
- conscious experience is required for truly believing
- consciousness is purely based on phenomenalconsciousness
What is the problem of phenomenal consciousness ?
- We have no independent language for describing phenomenal qualities
What is meant by awareness ?
- Whenever we have acces to some information and can use that information to control behaviour
- In general, wherever there is phenomenal consciousness, there seems to be awareness
What is the difference between consciousness and awareness ?
- consciousness is the procces of awarness -> so they are not equal !
- awareness is the process of information
- owen study could only be/is about awareness
What is the orgin of the body and mind probelm and what does it mean?
- objective reality vs subjective reality
- Aristotelian vs Galileo and Descartes world view
What happens if you would just have a brain without any soul ?(consciousness)
- There would be no life after death
- if so then psychology will be replaced by neuroscience
What is meant by the hard problem? (champler)
- How do I explain our subjective experience / phenomenal consciousness ?
- Example = how do I explain pian ?
What is meant by the easy probelm? (champler)
- solvable problems in the future
- Which physical systems play a role in psychological consciusness
What are some solutions to the body and mind problem?
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What is meant by first person data?
- Subjective experience
- not accesible to others
What is meant by third person data?
- objetive data
- Accesible to others
