Education Category: General
Ages: 16+
Topics covered on the Consciousness exam (Leiden university - 2019)
- Descartes’ theory on the relationship between conscious mind and body
- Materialist approaches to consciousness The relationship between epiphenomenalism and functionalism
- Qualia
- Mary, color scientist
- Philosophers’ zombie
- Milner & Goodale on the relationship between conscious perception and action
- Global Workspace Theory of Baars
- The concept of a “Cartesian Theatre”
- Dennett’s multiple-drafts theory
- Libet’s stimulation of the brain of patients
- Libet’s theory of conscious experience
- How rich, complete are internal representations of the visual environment
- The sensorimotor theory of O’Regan and Noë
- Split-brain patients
- Hume’s concept of the self
- Bundle theory of the self
- William James and the “stream of consciousness”
- Libet and the relative timing of conscious willing and overt action
- Wegner and the relationship between consciously perceived will and voluntary action
- The neural correlates of conscious experience in monkeys and humans
- Phantom pain and Ramachandran’s technique
- The binding problem
- Crick & Koch and how the brain solves binding problem
- Blindsight Sensory substitution in blind people
- Darwin’s theory of natural selection
- Darwin and Lamarck
- Consciousness as “health”
- Humphrey’s evolutionary theory of consciousness
- Are animals conscious?
- Can animals speak?
- Alternatives to Strong AI
- Turing test
- Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment
- The impact of unconscious signals
- Hallucinations
- Visual forms in drug-induced hallucinations
- Psi phenomena
- Parapsychological studies and methodological shortcomings
- Impact of Altered State of Consciousness
- How drugs affect cognitive processes
- Hobson’s AIM model of sleep
- The Retro-Selective Theory of Dreams
- Out-Of-Body Experience
- Near-Death Experience
Topics not covered:
- Orwellian and Stalinesque revisions (p. 83)
- Filling the gaps (p. 88-94)
- Multiple personality (p. 107-112)
- Memes (p. 233-236)
- Quantum consciousness (p. 285-289)
- Lucid dreams (p. 394-399)
- Mystical experiences (p. 414-417)
- Chapters 25-27
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