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Summary of consciousness
- Consciousness may never arise because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration of preexisting consciousness.
- Consciousness may be fundamental in nature—an inherent aspect of every mental process, not a property generated by arrangement of structures in the brain (brain physiology).
- Reducing consciousness to brain physiology may have little to do with consciousness proper, but with mechanisms of metacognition instead.
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Conscious and Unconscious thoughts
- “Consciousness” is often used in the literature as if it implied more than just the qualities of experience.
- The key distinction between conscious and unconscious thought is that “Conscious thought is thought with attention.”
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Confusion in Consciousness
- We assume that consciousness is limited to re-represented mental contents under the focus of attention.
- This confuses meta-consciousness with consciousness.
- Conscious processes that lack re-representation and tr...
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An Example of consciousness
Consider your breathing right now- the air flow and the movement of your breathing organs.
- Were you not experiencing these sensations a moment ago, before I directed your attention to them?
- Or were you just unaware that you were experiencing them all along?
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Conscious and Meta-conscious
- Both conscious and meta-conscious entail the qualities of experience, however, meta-conscious processes also entail what is called re-representation.
- Re-representation of consciousness is in...
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Consciousness and Re-representation
- Attention plays an important role in re-representation; that is, the conscious knowledge of an experience and introspection.
- Subjects cannot report—not even to themselves—experiences that aren’t re-represented.
- However, cons...
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Consciousness in babies
- It’s debated in neuroscience whether babies are born conscious or whether they develop consciousness at some point (generally said to be five months of age)
- It is hard to think that a newborn feels nothing. Newborns clearly seem to experience ...
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Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)
The whole brain can be considered an NCC because it generates experience continually.
- When parts of the cerebellum, the "little brain" underneath the back of the brain, are lost to a stroke or otherwise, patients may lose the ability to play the piano, for example. But they never l...
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