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

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Bibliography (cont.)
  • http//users.senet.com.au/presence/GifsFolder/Red
    1.gif
  • 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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