Psychology Dictionary of ArgumentsHome
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| Consciousness, philosophy: The experience of differences along with a knowledge about alternatives as opposed to purely automatic responses. See also intentionality, identity theory, other minds._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Chris Frith on Consciousness - Dictionary of Arguments
I 138 Consciousness/action/unconscious/action/Frith: thesis: most of the time we will not be conscious of what we are doing. Conscious/intent: we are conscious of our intention. Movement: movement only becomes conscious when something fails. Brain/knowledge/movement: the brain knows in advance how long an action will take and how it should feel. Imagination/mental training/Frith: picturing a movement in advance can actually improve the performance. I 139 It even brings almost as much increase in power as normal training. I 252 Consciousness/Frith: this book (Chr. Frith: Wie unser Gehirn die Welt erschafft, Heidelberg 2013) is not about consciousness. Brain/Frith: instead, I emphasized how much my brain knows and does without me. Consciousness: there is very little left to be done for it._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Frith I Chris Frith Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Hoboken/NJ 2007 German Edition: Wie unser Gehirn die Welt erschafft Heidelberg 2013 |
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