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  1. self-awareness
    awareness of your own individuality
    He emphasizes wakefulness, self-awareness, reflection, rationality, “knowledge of one’s own existence and of the existence of surroundings.”
  2. categorization
    the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes
    Of course these subjects were seeing the pictures consciously, but Malach found that the brain circuits involved in scrutinizing self-reactions (as indicated by the emotional reaction task) were inhibited in the fast categorization task.
  3. self-consciousness
    self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you
    That is certainly one kind of consciousness, what one might call self-consciousness.
  4. neuroscientist
    a biologist who specializes in the study of the brain
    In “Self Comes to Mind,” the eminent neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio gives an account of consciousness that might come naturally to a highly caffeinated professor in his study.
  5. conflate
    mix together different elements
    This argument conflates the minimal self with the inflated self.
  6. consciousness
    an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself
    In “Self Comes to Mind,” the eminent neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio gives an account of consciousness that might come naturally to a highly caffeinated professor in his study.
  7. inflate
    fill with gas or air
    It is inflated with self-awareness, reflection, rationality, deliberation and knowledge of one’s existence and the existence of one’s surroundings, and this is what he ends up arguing a ¬being needs in order to have phenomenal consciousness.
  8. come to mind
    be remembered
    In “Self Comes to Mind,” the eminent neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio gives an account of consciousness that might come naturally to a highly caffeinated professor in his study.
  9. brutalization
    the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner
    Damasio’s refusal to regard phenomenal consciousness (without the involvement of the inflated self) as real consciousness could be used to justify the brutalization of cows and chickens on the grounds that they are not self-conscious and therefore not conscious.
  10. self-aware
    aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts
    A person who is drunk or delirious or dreaming can be excruciatingly conscious without being wakeful, self-aware or aware of his surroundings.
  11. rationality
    the state of having good sense and sound judgment
    He emphasizes wakefulness, self-awareness, reflection, rationality, “knowledge of one’s own existence and of the existence of surroundings.”
  12. wakefulness
    a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world
    He emphasizes wakefulness, self-awareness, reflection, rationality, “knowledge of one’s own existence and of the existence of surroundings.”
  13. activation
    causing something to take effect or to have energy
    The patient, they found, showed the same imagistic brain activations (motor areas for tennis, spatial areas for exploring the house) as normally conscious people who were used as controls.
  14. paradoxical
    seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
    Recognizing that the reader will be puzzled by this claim, he describes dreaming as “paradoxical” since the mental processes in dreaming are “not guided by a regular, properly functioning self of the kind we deploy when we reflect and deliberate.”
  15. spatial
    pertaining to the expanse in which things are located
    The patient, they found, showed the same imagistic brain activations (motor areas for tennis, spatial areas for exploring the house) as normally conscious people who were used as controls.
  16. inhibited
    held back or restrained or prevented
    Of course these subjects were seeing the pictures consciously, but Malach found that the brain circuits involved in scrutinizing self-reactions (as indicated by the emotional reaction task) were inhibited in the fast categorization task.
  17. visualize
    form a mental picture of something that is invisible
    On some trials, the two instructed the patient to imagine standing still on a tennis court swinging at a ball, and on others to visualize walking from room to room in her home.
  18. freewheeling
    free of restraints or rules
    One’s thoughts would be freewheeling, unclaimed by an owner.
  19. cognitive
    relating to or involving the mental process of knowing
    Self-consciousness is a sophisticated and perhaps uniquely human cognitive achievement.
  20. roadblock
    any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
    His skepticism appears to be grounded in the fact that these patients show no clear sign of self-consciousness and thus constitute a potential roadblock in front of his theory.
  21. scrutinize
    examine carefully for accuracy
    Of course these subjects were seeing the pictures consciously, but Malach found that the brain circuits involved in scrutinizing self-reactions (as indicated by the emotional reaction task) were inhibited in the fast categorization task.
  22. introspection
    contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct
    Jaynes held that consciousness was invented by the ancient Greeks between 1400 and 600 B.C. He argued that there was a dramatic appearance of introspection in large parts of the “Odyssey,” as compared with large parts of the “Iliad,” which he claimed were composed at least a hundred years earlier.
  23. deploy
    place troops or weapons in battle formation
    Recognizing that the reader will be puzzled by this claim, he describes dreaming as “paradoxical” since the mental processes in dreaming are “not guided by a regular, properly functioning self of the kind we deploy when we reflect and deliberate.”
  24. inhibit
    limit the range or extent of
    Of course these subjects were seeing the pictures consciously, but Malach found that the brain circuits involved in scrutinizing self-reactions (as indicated by the emotional reaction task) were inhibited in the fast categorization task.
  25. ambiguity
    unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
    The ambiguity has not abated.
  26. intuitive
    spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
    As Malach puts it, these results comport with “the strong intuitive sense we have of ‘losing our selves’ in a highly engaging sensory-motor act.”
  27. scoff
    laugh at with contempt and derision
    But Damasio scoffs, saying that these results “can be parsimoniously interpreted in the context of the abundant evidence that mind processes operate nonconsciously.”
  28. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
    The ambiguity has not abated.
  29. delirious
    experiencing hallucinations
    A person who is drunk or delirious or dreaming can be excruciatingly conscious without being wakeful, self-aware or aware of his surroundings.
  30. breakdown
    the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
    I can explain the problem by a brief detour into a different book, “The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” (1976), by the American psychologist Julian Jaynes.
  31. vivid
    having striking color
    In dreams, phenomenal consciousness can be very vivid even when the rational processes of self-consciousness are much diminished.
  32. persistent
    stubbornly unyielding
    You may have noticed an exciting report a few years ago of a patient in a persistent vegetative state (defined behaviorally) studied by the neuroscientists Adrian Owen and Steven Laureys.
  33. diminished
    made to seem smaller or less, especially in worth
    In dreams, phenomenal consciousness can be very vivid even when the rational processes of self-consciousness are much diminished.
Created on 二月 11, 2011

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