The Problem Of Consciousness: Searle

Searle sees consciousness as being aware fom when someone wakes up in the morning until they lose consciousness by going to sleep or dying. He gives the example of someone asking him what is was like to speak to an audience. He can answer this question because he has had experience in public speaking, but if he was asked what it was like being a shingle on a roof or a stone there would be no answer because those physical items are not conscious. He talks about a cause and effect situation. He teaches that there is a lower part of the brain and a higher part. This is how we are biologically created. We get information from our senses and our brain decides what to do with it. Our brains are not like computers, but are spontanious and we can unconsciously decide what to do and when. He also talks about his conscious field and how we can feel so many things yet we we feel these things only once at a time. We have the capacity to feel an innumerable amount of things at one time but we can only pat attention to one at a time until that feeling is put on the back burner and another feeling is brought to the forefront. CHAKS TAKE