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Consciousness, sentience, dual-process theory

Chapter 6: Toward mindfulness — how we feel about things, versus how we think about things

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    Consciousness, sentience, dual-process theory
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    Chapter 6: Toward mindfulness

    Feeling versus thinking
    Consciousness, sentience, feeling versus thinking CILO-1, 5
     
    Provocation:
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Animated Book Summary, FightMediocrity, Jun 2015.
     
    Required reading:
     
    Suggested materials:
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast vs. Thinking Slow | Inc. Magazine
    You can avoid decision-making mistakes by understanding the differences between these two systems of thought. Subscribe to Inc.'s channel, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/incmagazine?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Inc Twitter: https://twitter.com/Inc G+: https://plus.google.com/+incmagazine/posts Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inc.-magazine
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast vs. Thinking Slow | Inc. Magazine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirFrDVRBo4&t=52s
    Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast vs. Thinking Slow | Inc. Magazine
    Dual process theory
    In psychology, a dual process theory provides an account of how thought can arise in two different ways, or as a result of two different processes. Often, the two processes consist of an implicit (automatic), unconscious process and an explicit (controlled), conscious process. Verbalized explicit processes or attitudes and actions may change with persuasion or education; though implicit process or attitudes usually take a long amount of time to change with the forming of new habits. Dual process theories can be found in social, personality, cognitive, and clinical psychology. It has also been linked with economics via prospect theory and behavioral economics, and increasingly in sociology through cultural analysis.[1][2]
    Dual process theory
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory
    Hard problem of consciousness
    In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience. It is contrasted with the "easy problems" of explaining why and how physical systems give a (healthy) human being the ability to discriminate, to integrate information, and to perform behavioral functions such as watching, listening, speaking, and so forth. The easy problems are amenable to functional explanation—that is, explanations that are mechanistic or behavioral—since each physical system can be explained purely by reference to the "structure and dynamics" that underpin the phenomenon.
    Hard problem of consciousness
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
    Hard problem of consciousness
    Chinese room
    The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness,[a] regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave. The argument was presented in a 1980 paper by the philosopher John Searle entitled "Minds, Brains, and Programs" and published in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1] Before Searle, similar arguments had been presented by figures including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1714), Anatoly Dneprov (1961), Lawrence Davis (1974) and Ned Block (1978). Searle's version has been widely discussed in the years since.[2] The centerpiece of Searle's argument is a thought experiment known as the Chinese room.[3]
    Chinese room
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
    A Chinese Speaker’s take on the Chinese Room
    AI philosophy essay refining Chinese Room thought-experiment — one who communicates intelligently shall not understand a thing they write…
    A Chinese Speaker’s take on the Chinese Room
    https://medium.com/towards-data-science/a-chinese-speakers-take-on-the-chinese-room-88a0558b2cc8
    A Chinese Speaker’s take on the Chinese Room
     
    Exercises:
    • What are some things you originally did using system 2, but through repeated practice, now do using system 1? (Psychologists describe this process as compiling declarative knowledge into procedural knowledge.)

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