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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Consciousness''' β Subjective awareness of oneself and the environment. * '''Qualia''' β The individual instances of subjective, conscious experience (the "redness" of red). * '''Hard Problem of Consciousness''' β The question of how and why physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. * '''Easy Problems of Consciousness''' β Explaining cognitive functions like attention, memory, and information integration. * '''Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)''' β The minimal set of neuronal events and mechanisms sufficient for a specific conscious percept. * '''Phenomenal Consciousness''' β The experience of "what it is like" to be in a certain state (P-consciousness). * '''Access Consciousness''' β Information that is available for use in reasoning and guiding behavior (A-consciousness). * '''Global Workspace Theory (GWT)''' β The theory that consciousness results from information being "broadcast" to a global workspace in the brain. * '''Integrated Information Theory (IIT)''' β The theory that consciousness is a fundamental property of systems with high "integrated information" (Phi). * '''Higher-Order Thought (HOT) Theory''' β Suggests that consciousness involves a mental state that is about another mental state. * '''Blindsight''' β A condition where people who are blind in part of their visual field can still respond to stimuli without "seeing" them. * '''Anosognosia''' β A condition in which a person who suffers a certain disability seems unaware of the existence of his or her disability. * '''Default Mode Network (DMN)''' β A network of brain regions that is active when the individual is not focused on the outside world. * '''Split-Brain''' β A condition resulting from surgery that severs the corpus callosum, leading to "two independent consciousnesses" in one head. </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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