Consciousness #

• Consciousness can be guided - meditation
• It is subjective, based on sensory data (external)
• Conscious of thoughts, feelings (internal)
• Dualist view
  • Mind and [[brains-and-emotions|brain]]
  • Extreme form is religion - soul/spirit
• Materialist view
  • Nothing as consciousness
  • Body and brain, signals
• Ex Machina clip
  • Functionalist view
    • Cognitive agents produce behaviour -> function - systems view
• Attention theory
  • We are bombarded with information
  • Consciousness helps us focus our attention
• Functionalist perspective: Cognitive agents produce behaviour -> function
  • Consciousness in CRUM

Body #

• Cognition afforded and constrained by body
• Body in driving - embodied cognition
  • Situated cognition - cognition is situated in the world (react to environment)
    • E.g. ping pong robot
    • Look at human behaviour
    • Ball comes to us, we react, not much thinking
    • Aka situated action
    • Environment shapes behaviour
    • Bartender keeps memory of drinks - use spatial location of the bar to remember
  • Distributed cognition: deliberately move cognition to external world
    • E.g. cars: lot of information is given by the car.
• Boundary of cognition? - depends on different kinds of cognition