Consciousness | Biological Psychology 6.3
Channel: Sebastiaan Mathôt
Date: 2017-12-22

In this video, I discuss consciousness, the subjective 'what it is like' aspect of thought. First, I discuss the hard and the easy problem, as defined by Dave Chalmers, and then the Chinese Room thought experiment, proposed by John Searle. Next, I describe the various states of consciousness, ranging from alert wakefulness to death. Finally, I describe the Global Workspace Theory of consciousness, as developed by Bernard Baars and Stanislas Dehaene.