Consciousness and Neuroscience

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Consciousness and Neuroscience

• Crostof Koch and Francis Crick

Cerebral Cortex, 897-107, 1998
Nikita Shpilberg ASR Staples High School Westport
CT
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Why the Problem of Consciousness Is Being Avoided?

• Inseparable component of the conscious being
• It is subjective

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Why We Study Consciousness in Humans?

• Its a part of us
• When we will know it, we will be able to apply it
  to other types of consciousnesses if they exist
• And/or lock down on systems that might resemble
  it in function

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Visual Representation Its Essentials

• Short-term memory of Consciousness
• Coalitionthe specific firings of neurons whose
  representation the brain will accept
• Bistable perceptsdifferent visual input

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The Benefits of Studying Visual Consciousness

• Its easy
• We know a lot about the visual system already
• Its the most obvious of the types of
  consciousness

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Necker cube
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Qualia

• The being of being

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Why are we Conscious?

• Most effective way to decide among alternatives

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Finale

• Consciousness as a question
• Consciousness in humans
• The benefits of studying visual consciousness
• Qualia
• Why Consciousness?

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Crick and Koch
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Bibliography

• http//www.eadon.com/phil/cartoons/consciousness.g
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• www.eadon.com/phil/cartoons/ consciousness.gif
• http//www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/02/mlandre1/r
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• http//ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/graphics/quinfig1.gif
  

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Bibliography (cont.)

• http//users.senet.com.au/presence/GifsFolder/Red
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• http//www.nmn.org.au/machine/consciousness.jpg
• http//aris.ss.uci.edu/cogsci/personnel/gstudents/
  chen/illusions/Necker-cube.jpeg

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