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| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 5 | Consciousness (common sense definition) - refers to those states of sentience and awareness that typically begin when we awake from a dreamless sleep and continue until we go to sleep again, or fall into a coma or die or otherwise become "unconscious". | |||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 5 | Dreams are a form of consciousness. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 5 | Within the field of consciousness there are states of intensity ranging from drowsiness to full awareness. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 5 | Humans and higher animals are obviously conscious, but we do not know how far down the phylogenetic scale consciousness extends. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 6 | Consciousness vs. self-consciousness | 1 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 9 | All conscious phenomena are qualitative, subjective experiences, and hence are qualia. | 3 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 13 | Brains can have consciousness as an emergent property. | 4 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 18 | Simulation of mental states is no more a mental state than the simulation of an explosion is itself an explosion. | 5 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 22 | All of our conscious experiences are explained by the behavior of neurons and are themselves emergent properties of the system of neurons. | 4 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 27 | Though each neuron receives both excitatory and inhibitory signals, each neuron sends out only one or the other type of signal. | 5 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 27 | Our entire mental life is caused by the behavior of neurons, and all they do is increase or decrease their rates of firing. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 34 | Reference Francis Crick: solution to the binding problem, synchronized firing of spatially separated neurons that are responsive to different features of an object. Neuron assemblies responsive to shape, color, movement, etc. fire in synchrony at about 40 Hz. | 7 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 34 | Reference Francis Crick: thalamus plays a central role in consciousness, synchronized firing in the range of 40 Hz in networks connecting the thalamus and the cortex, especially layers four and six. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 39 | Of the neurobiological theories of consciousness, John Searle believes the most impressively worked out and the most profound is that of Gerald Edelman. | 5 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 40 | Crick uses the binding problem for visual perception as entry wedge for consciousness; Edelman uses categorization as his entry wedge. | 1 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 40 | Edleman's notion of maps. Human visual system comprises over thirty maps in the visual cortex. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 40 | Edelman's "Neuronal Group Selection": Brain is genetically equipped from birth with an overabundance of neuronal groups, develops by a mechanism similar to Darwinian natural selection; some neuronal groups die out; others survive and are strengthened. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 41 | In some parts of the brain, as many as 70 percent of the neurons die before the brain reaches maturity. | 1 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 41 | Unit that gets selected is not the individual neuron, but neuronal groups of hundreds to millions of cells. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 41 | Edelman's idea about reentry: Reentry is a process by which parallel signals go back and forth between maps. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 41 | Reentry is not just feedback; reentry is many parallel pathways operating simultaneously. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 41 | Edelman's reasoning: perceptual categories begin with shapes, color, movement, and eventually to objects and abstract general concepts. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 44 | Memory for Edelman is not just a passive process of storing but an active process of recategorizing on the basis of privious categorizations. | 3 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 44 | Memory recategorizes the input by enhancing the priviously established categorization. This involves changes in the population of synapses in the global mapping. It does not just recall a stereotype but continually reinvents the category. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 44 | Edelman's conception of memory, one of his theory's most powerful features; alternative to the traditional idea of memory as a storehouse of knowledge and experience, and of remembering as a process of retrieval from the storehouse. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 44 | Edelman's concept of learning: Learning is a matter of changes in behavior that are based on categorizations governed by positive and negative values. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 46 | Primary consciousness results from the interaction in real time between memories of past value category correlations and present world input as it is categorized by global mappings. | 2 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 47 | Consciousness is an outcome of a recursively comparative memory in which previous self-non-self categorizations are continually related to ongoing present perceptual categorizations. | 1 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 47 | High-order consciousness can only be developed on the basis of primary consciousness, in order to develop such high-order capacities as language and symbolism. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 48 | The whole set of interlocking systems produces consciousness by way of reentrant mappings. | 1 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 48 | Qualitative states of sentience or awareness that all of us have -- what some philosophers call "qualia". | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 51 | Edelman and Crick share the basic conviction that to understand the mind and consciousness, we must understand in detail how the brain works. | 3 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 97 | Daniel Dennett's book Consciousness Explained is a work in the tradition of behaviorism. | 46 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 120 | In his book Consciousness Explained, Dennett denies the existence of consciousness. For him it refers only to third-person phenomena, not to the first person conscious feelings and experiences we all have. | 23 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 123 | Dennett's objective science of consciousness is not about consciousness, but rather a third-person account of external behavior. | 3 | ||
| Searle; Mystery of Consciousness | 131 | We know that certain brain functions are sufficient for consciousness, but we have no way of knowing at present whether they are also necessary. | 8 | ||
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