PHIL 336 JOURNAL ENTRY 2

Running Head: RESPONSES 1

RESPONSES 3

Technical Requirements of the Journal Entry:

· Microsoft .docx (not .pages or .pdf)

· Double Spaced, 12 pt. Times new Roman Font, 1" Left and Right Margins

· Minimum 500 words

· MLA CITATION

Week Five Journal Prompts: 

Read David Chalmers’ catalog of conscious experiences: 

Chalmers, David, J. “A catalog of conscious experiences.” in Keith Frankish, ed., Consciousness. 2nd ed. Open University (2010), pp. 182-7.

Explore your own consciousness.  Go through the list, catalog some examples, and reflect on the following questions.  

· If consciousness is physical, why can’t other people see my conscious experiences or measure them? 

· If I built a robot that is an exact duplicate of me, could that robot feel these conscious experiences? 

· What are conscious experiences actually? 

· If conscious experiences are just neurons firing in my head then how do I explain ideas like "intention" or "imagination"? 

· If I were to describe my mind as a kind of computer or Turing-Machine, then what exactly are these conscious experiences?