What is Consciousness anyway?

.....State when mental representations register

Awareness

Sensation

Perception

Access to thoughts

Responsiveness

Wakefulness

Sense of Self

Attention

Decision Making/Choice

Motivation--pleasure/pain/norms/values/emotion

Volition

Qualia/Phenomenal Experience

Connects sensations to memories to goals to plans to motor activities

*Thought

Why do we need consciousness?

    Philosophically?

    Scientifically?

       What is the evolutionary advantage?

          sense of self?

          is is required for learning? memory? planning? choice?

What is Unconscious?

    A ROCK   or Not conscious?  Potentiality

Whether you can be conscious of something, depends on being conscious at all.

Subconscious (belief perception)

There can cognition without consciouness

    subconscious

    unconscious

    reflex or automatic

IMAGES

Inner Brain

Brain Functional areas

Homunculi Sensory/Motor