125. What Is Consciousness? | THUNK

Описание: There's much ado about "consciousness," but what even is it? What's the big deal? How hard could it be? @_@ (At least as hard as FOCUSING THE CAMERA GAH)

Links for the Curious

If you are at all interested in this topic, please please please read the SEP entry on consciousness, it's just fantastic - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/co...

What It Is Like to Be a Bat (Nagel, 1974) - http://organizations.utep.edu/portals...

Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers, 1995) - http://consc.net/papers/facing.html

A summary of Paul Churchland's "Matter and Consciousness," specifically oriented at summarizing common positions about the mind/body problem (Blackman) - http://reidblackman.com/pdf/reidBlack...

Continuity, Consciousness, and Identity in Hume's Philosophy (Yandell) - http://www.humesociety.org/hs/issues/...

Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977) - http://people.virginia.edu/~tdw/nisbe...

Introspection and verbal reports on cognitive processes—Two approaches to the study of thinking: A response to Howe (Ericsson & Crutcher, 1991) -
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...

For a contrasting opinion: "When Does Introspection Bear Fruit? Self-Reflection, Self-Insight, and Interpersonal Choices" (Hixon & Swann, 1993) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8...

What is Consciousness? (Vsauce, 2012) -    • What Is Consciousness?  

A psychologist who uses timers to take mental "snapshots" of conscious experience - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/hea...