Consciousness
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn computer is not – it would have zero Φ and be a perfect zombie’ (Tononi, 2015). Yet surely this system w ...
Chapter Six The unity Commenting on Aaronson’s blog post (comment #125), Chalmers splits the Pretty-Hard Problem up into four su ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn even in a unified way, can feel like something. This is tackled most directly by sensorimotor theory (O’ ...
Chapter Six The unity SUPERUNITY AND DISUNITY In the penultimate section of this chapter, we will ask what can be learned about ...
SPLIT BRAINS, SPLIT CONSCIOUSNESS? Epilepsy can be a debilitating disease, at its worst causing almost continuous seizures that ...
by using one hand or the other to indicate an answer. Suppose that a picture of an object was flashed to the right visual field. ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn At first, Gazzaniga also believed that consciousness had been separated to give a ‘double conscious syst ...
Chapter Six The unity Scottish neuroscientist Donald MacKay (1987) was deter- mined to find out whether split-brain patients are ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn inferences from information. They cannot be said to be either aware or unaware of anything. (Hacker and ...
ACtIVItY 6.2 Split-brain twins Ask for two volunteers: one to play the role of a disconnected left hemisphere (LH) and the other ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn also show evidence of priming: getting quicker at recognis- ing fragmented pictures and completing words ...
Chapter Six The unity NEGLECT Some people who have a stroke causing damage to the right side of the brain lose the left-hand sid ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn experience we will never know what is it like to be a patient affected by unilateral neglect’ (1988, p. ...
Chapter Six The unity Wilhelm Wundt did early experiments on time and sensory consciousness towards the end of the nineteenth ce ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn stationary red light because consciousness was delayed until all the relevant information was in, and on ...
Chapter Six The unity oRWeLLIAn AnD stALInesQUe ReVIsIons Is there a precise moment at which something ‘becomes conscious’ or ‘c ...
seCtIon tWo: tHe BRAIn Engel, A. K. (2003). Temporal binding and the neural correlates of consciousness. In A. Cleeremans (Ed. ...
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CHAPTER ‘Every one knows what attention is’, said William James in 1890. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and v ...
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