Senin, 11 Desember 2017

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Awareness is a topic related to the psychology that had been eliminated because it is considered unscientific, but it is now reaching its rise. Consciousness is a topic that contains the mystery in science that includes psychology, philosophy and neuroscience.

Awareness (Solso R. L., et al, 2008) is the awareness of a person against events in his environment (such as the sights and sounds of the surrounding environment) and cognitive events that include memory, thoughts, feelings and physical sensations. Definition of consciousness has two sides, awareness includes an understanding of the surrounding environmental stimuli, for example we may suddenly hear birds singing, toothache and so on. Consciousness also includes the recognition of a person against his own mental events, such as thoughts generated by memory and personal awareness of his identity. For example, we are hearing birds chirping with the name of the bird, or during toothache we remember our dentist's phone number.

Internal and personal thoughts are as important as external stimuli in determining "who we are" and "what we think". Throughout g = days we have experienced "unconscious experiences" which, when counted infinitely in number, are caused by the sights and sounds of the world around us, as well as from innumerable internal conscious experiences, caused by our thoughts that reflect our own reactions and feelings.

The history of consciousness, beginning with the scientific psychology of the nineteenth century as a study of the conscious experiences. In the excerpt of William James (In Solso R. L., et al, 2008) "psychology is the science of mental life" (mental psychology is a conscious mental life). Philosophers and laypeople have been pondering the questions of the mind and of the nature of the human self. At the beginning of the twentieth century, consciousness as a topic was almost excluded from the realm of psychology by the dominant follower of the psychological ideology of that era, behaviorism, led by John Watson and B. F. Skinner. There was a holy war over the human mind that lasted throughout the last half of the 20th century. The war was carried out by cognitive psychologists struggling to restore consciousness as an important topic, while the behaviorists fought to maintain a fully objective form of psychology.

In awareness (AWAREeness) has multiple frameworks. The main characteristics of the framework include Attention, Wakefulness, Architecture, Recall of knowledge, and Emotive. There are also secondary attributes included in this framework. The secondary attributes are Novelty, Emergence, Selectivity, and Subjectivity. In consciousness also discussed about the functions of consciousness, some philosophers have argued that consciousness is not important for most human activities, as exemplified by zombie illustrations (Chalmers 1995, Dennett, 1988), Zombies are imaginary beings who can do everything which we can do, but have no consciousness. In other words, zombies may have entire receptors to recognize red, and use that information to select mature apples, but still have no subjective experience of "the sensation of seeing red". This subjective experience is called qualia. Qualia refers to the characteristics of sensory experience, subjective experience, and feelings related to those experiences. qualia is considered phenomenological and subjective based on the fact that humans perceive the object as a whole, rather than the actual electromagnetic energy we detect (we see) using our retina. (Source: Solso R. L., et al, 2008)



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