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What is the hard problem of consciousness?
What is the hard problem of consciousness?
- Understanding how attention changes brain waves
- Understanding brain processes that produce subjective experiences (correct)
- Understanding how to communicate with "locked-in" patients
- Understanding how neural activity creates specific experiences
Which of the following can be used to study consciousness?
Which of the following can be used to study consciousness?
- Heart rate monitoring
- Muscle tension measurement
- Event-related potential (ERP) and brain scans (fMRI (correct)
- Blood pressure measurement
What are qualia?
What are qualia?
- Subjective experiences that cannot be communicated to others (correct)
- Objective experiences that cannot be communicated to others
- Objective experiences that can be communicated to others
- Subjective experiences that can be communicated to others
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- Sleep and dreaming are forms of consciousness.
- Consciousness is difficult to study as it is a hidden cognitive phenomenon.
- Consciousness is defined as our subjective experience and perception of what is going on in our mind.
- Consciousness is dependent on attention towards mental images, awareness, and sense of self.
- Event-related potential (ERP) and brain scans (fMRI) can be used to study consciousness.
- Attention changes brain waves.
- Brain scans (fMRI) can be used to communicate with "locked-in" patients.
- The easy problem of consciousness is understanding how neural activity creates specific experiences.
- The hard problem of consciousness is understanding brain processes that produce subjective experiences.
- Qualia are subjective experiences that cannot be communicated to others.
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