Intelligence And Consciousness Controversy

David Chalmers is a philosopher who talked at a TED Talks conference in Vancouver British Columbia on March 2014 about consciousness and how one explains it. David Chalmers mentions in his talk that each of us in conscious, without consciousness, nothing in our lives would contain any value or meaning (2014). Consciousness is like a movie playing in your head, it possesses all the senses that humans have and also the feelings they have as well (Chalmers, 2014). This movie is your stream of consciousness. Overall, consciousness is one of the most difficult problem to solve in science and philosophy, it will and has taken a lot of time to figure out. With that being said, understanding consciousness is a big key to understanding not only ourselves

Consciousness, on the other hand, is the first person self-awareness of one’s mental states. One knows and understands exactly what they are

In today's society debate rest with the issue of clarifying whether a conscious state is regarded as having cognitive ability or being aware of your physical existence. However, how do we know we are aware of our surroundings and the world is not a fabricated illusion projected by a creator. The scientific vision of consciousness drastically differs from most religious moral beliefs. So how do individuals arrive with a single definition if viewpoints on the matter are so diverse? In my opinion, everyone will have a definition of consciousness because each individual has a different perception of morality. It is hard to define because one word can have so many different meanings. However in my opinion consciousness is living, medically when someone is conscious it symbolizes life, spiritually it resembles living and scientifically it means to be

The very definition of intelligence is problematic. It is associated with feelings and reasoning capabilities, but they are difficult to distinguish from instinctual, at least at a behavioral level. Experiments have been designed in order to achieve this discrimination, and they are based on a solely point: self-perception.

The human consciousness is a critical part of life, and a well studied topic in psychology. While the exact reasons for consciousness are still unknown, the effects of a consciousness have been researched extensively. I've always been interested in consciousness and the evolution from just practicality to a deeper level of feeling and why self awareness developed. Consciousness plays a key role in psychology, as being self aware allows for critical thinking as well as fast learning.

Consciousness is an idea that we have based on subjective experience and not based on anything that we can really measure or observe in brains. We know that there’s consciousness because we can self report it. In reality no one really knows what makes us conscious, or what parts of the brain are responsible for that, or what processes in the brain. There is no doubt that computers at some point might be powerful enough that they can just simulate a

Consciousness gives us no answer as to why brain states give rise to mental states. Consciousness is a certain feature shared by sense-experience and imagery, perhaps belonging also to a broad range of other mental phenomena. According to Graham, “Consciousness is the most vivid or explicit feature of our mental lives- for our being minded or possessing a perspective.” It is interesting because Consciousness has us ask ourselves what it seems to be. How is feels to be in pain, anger, shame or happiness. Consciousness is in a sense, the feeling we get when we think through a math problem or remember where we parked our car.

Consciousness is the way beings have their own personal experiences in their minds. In other words, how they experience every day situations in their own personal view or perspective. Ned Block (1995) explains that “phenomenal consciousness is experience; what makes a state phenomenally conscious is that there is something ‘it is like’ to be in that state.” Susan Blackmore (2012) said that consciousness was subjective; meaning consciousness is personal and cannot be shared with anyone else. Study and research on consciousness has advanced and increased in the past years. The Laboratory of Nuero Imaging states that humans have at least 70,000 thoughts racing through their heads on a normal day. These thoughts make up a part of our consciousness; our ongoing dose of qualia, or private internal experiences. It is obvious that humans have consciousness, but do other organisms share this capability? One experiment compared the cognitive ability of humans and great apes at the early stages of their development. Mammals, like apes and monkeys, do have consciousness based on anecdotal evidence, research, and experiments.

Consciousness is the most fundamental facts of existence, it is what is most intimate to us yet at the same time the most mysterious. Consciousness is what makes life worth living if we were not conscious nothing in our life would have meaning or value.

When I first started this course I thought I knew a good amount about consciousness or cognition. As the semester went on I realized I did not know as much as I thought, but I ended up learning more than I ever thought possible. Every week I felt as if my knowledge was increasing day by day. Before this class most of my knowledge came through personal experience or doing some research for my own curiosity. This semester brought more insight into many different topics, but the ones I feel that I grew the most were anxiety, depression, music and its effect on the brain, and love and romance.

For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated character”, that he feels defines consciousness and makes it simple. But is it really that simplistic?? I mean consciousness is something everyone is aware of at every waking moment of life until death. Never has it been something

The essential properties of consciousness have been matters of philosophical debate since the 1600s, when Descartes proclaimed that mind and brain were separate substances. But recently, scientists and doctors have started asking

When I think of consciousness, I seemed to compare this to the state of being aware of surroundings. Somehow, there are various theories that will argue that we can still be in the state of consciousness even when we are sleep as well as someone in a coma. Nonetheless, the term consciousness can be said to be inconclusive or even referred to an enigma. In fact, it is so mysterious that numerous philosophers and other experts such as Plato, Sigmund Freud and so many others to mention have explored and attempted to validate their theories on consciousness. Due to its elusiveness, philosophers and other truth-seekers attempt to surmise answers by pursuing diverse facts and evidences that can lead to their theories (Manson, 2011). On the other

Conscious is thought to be a mental state in which we are able to process information and act on it. However this term is used to describe a state of awareness while awake whereas there seems to be varying levels of consciousness that describe most mental states. If information can be perceived (knowing or unknowingly) then it is likely that you are conscious, e.g. even when in light sleep we can dream and may even wake up on hearing a loud noise, therefore the brain still processes information, however in deep sleep this is not the case. When looking at consciousness, there is what Levine described as the explanatory gap (Levine, 1983). This states that in the present moment we are not able to provide an explanation for the phenomena that is consciousness however as time goes on and our knowledge of neuroscience increases this gap will close gradually until it is non-existent (Block & Young, 1996). However despite this statement being made by Levine around 30 years ago, the explanatory gap still remains although it is clearly beginning to close, we still have some way to go before we can begin to understand what consciousness is. Consciousness is inherently a subjective matter as there are many different meanings for the word which are seemingly thrown around without much thought, there is no way to prove that one normal experience of consciousness is the same as another (qualia) and we are unable to scientifically explain conscious experiences. Therefore before we can

Consciousness is about being “awake” on many levels not merely awareness of a particular situation or man-made paradigm.