Consciousness: Crash Course Psychology #8
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- What exactly is consciousness? Well... that's kind of a gray area. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives you the basic ideas of what consciousness is, how our attention works, and why we shouldn't text and drive... ever... no, really, NEVER!
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Chapters:
Introduction: What is Consciousness? 00:00
States of Consciousness 1:51
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging 2:16
Dual Processing 3:33
Selective Attention 4:23
Inattentional Blindness 6:13
How Magicians Use Psychology 7:08
Review & Credits 8:38
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When Hank said "Do I smell pizza?" it reminded me that I actually had a pizza in the oven. I jumped up, rushed to the oven, and found the pizza perfectly done. So basically, Hank prevented the burning of my pizza. I'd almost totally forgotten about the thing! Thanks, Hank!
Set an alarm next time.
OH MY GOD ITS BURNING
What is mind? - doesn't matter
What is matter? - never mind
Sebastjans Slavitis
Very poetic
Early simpsons reference lol
Mind is perception and matter is stuff
There is a loop in my head now thanks to you
SERIOUSLY!?!?! Of course I didn't notice the shirts - they are all so incredibly similar! Even when you showed us the scenes, I could not tell the difference!
I actually did not nice that part +Rory Nitti, thank you.
I had to turn my screen brightness up to realize it went from grey to blue to black.
He changed his shirt again, but it's more noticeable because a print is on it.
I had to watch it several times, probably should have made my screen brighter, to actually realize they were different.
I feel like it was more noticeable at the end because by then you were aware that he was changing his shirts (at least for me), but I don't know, I might have noticed it or not if he didn't mention him changing his shirts.
This episode is hard to watch for me, I keep turning my selective attention to my own conciousness and the fact that I'm turning my selective attention to my selective attention and argh
+jortjuuuuuh
Selective attention of my selective attention of my attention. Attention within attention of my attention.
Selective attention-ception.
+jortjuuuuuh It's like spinning your consciousness in a circle, and getting mentally dizzy.
wow y'all really took dizzy to a whole other level!😂😂
"one of the many perks of studying psychology with me is that you learn all kinds of different ways to mess with people"
Ooooooo yessss :'D
Ikr!!! Gotta love hank... :)
+Aira Kaine Literally the only reason im here...
Lovasz I guess you and I are on the same boat then xDD
Did you try any of these...'tricks'? ;)
Aira Kaine Nah, its mostly that i find it useful to know how our brains function to understand others as well as myself.
Ah, I see :)
If you think about it, it's really beautiful and deep how we think that we exist in this physical world and yet we don't. We're just our consciousness using this physical world.
Close, but not quite there😊. There is no your consciousness or my consciousness. All there is is consciousness! Or how will you tell where your consciousness starts and where mine ends? It's like in a dream. You are not only the charakter you feel to be inside of, but also all the other characters that you dream up as well as all the objects, land- and cityscapes that appear within you😄. Isn't that totally awesome?😍
+Edward Piltz Mine starts in my brain and ends there, yours too.
Ricardo Montania , I know, that's what you belief☺. But did ever, ever have had an experience apart from your perceptions arising in consciousness? Including this chat with me? So where am I if not in "your" consciousness?😊😉
Ricardo Montania, in the end even what we call matter is only a perception of your mind, consists of conciousness appearing in conciousness. Everything we can perceive is and can always only be conceptual and subjective. With other words, consciousnees is not in your brain but you are in concsiousness. I know all this might sound completly ridiculous but it's actually an open fact, it's only does not correspond with our everday perception😶😊🤗
Totally nonrelated
Hank: So how do we keep focus and filter out all that chatter?
People with autism, ADHD or any kind of sensory processing disorder: hahahahahahahaha you tell me buddy
no but for real this is a great video for explaining "i dont hate you, i just cant stand physical contact sometimes because there's stuff youre not even aware is happening that i cant block out" in a bright, colourful, non offensive way without wanting to rip someone to shreds mid-meltdown
I'm autistic and I always have this problem. So people don't understand why I have a permanent headache.
um......oof?
6:34 That intermission was just adorable.
and probably most people also didn't notice there is a dancing stick figure beside the lamp at 6:57 LOL :D
+May Mustafa BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!! OMG!! I'm so mad!! I did NOT expect to see that!! Ugh!! I'm so mad!! LoL!!
+Izaya Evarez ....Oh Wow, that was an important post by you, but important only to you... it was an insipid post for everyone else... try harder to add content to your posts... nobody really likes an airhead, even you...
Stephen Kirby It's as if the only words one can say is words of content, yet at the same time humans ask for emotion in their words.
You have emotion. You will embrace the emotion in my post.
+Izaya Evarez ... you want real emotion, real feelings... try thinking for yourself until you have removed all the biases and influences you accepted as truth during your youthful and formative years, and you will re-discover the strength of feeling you can hardly remember experiencing when young, before your feelings were self-repressed by those biases and influences heretofore mentioned...
Stephen Kirby Oh yes. I will agree that will give you a 'real' emotion. I can accept that.
A tough truth that would bring you. LoL!!
I can't imagine how hard that is for humans to accept.
Oh my gosh. I haven't showered to day, my chair IS uncomfortable, and I DO have to pee!
Thanks, now I can't get the feel of my tongue out of my mouth.
:)))) same here
Ryan Stutzman saaaaameee 😂😂😂😂😂
Finally someone who noticed that, except for me! They're so cute!
I am a med student on my las year of med school and the concepts you have presented in this series are pretty basic to me but you present it in a way that is easy to understand and remember, and right down lovely :D keep it going!! I wish I had this 4 years ago for my basic psichology course
I didn't notice the feel of my socks on my feet before or after Hank mentioned it. That's probably because I'm not wearing any, and if I did feel socks I would be concerned.
I do have a tongue though.
I wasn't wearing any socks either lol
AirStryke71 He made you aware of it. Or it can be that your very suggestible.
i wasn't wearing any socks
The best part was when he said "Eyes here! We're learning." at the same time I opened Tumblr on my phone.
Am I the only one that pauses during the intro to see what they wrote?
No you aren't... and those things are actually funny especially the inteo
+minimooster Deffinetly not
+minimooster nope... :p
I did it
nope
Why am I watching a video on consciousness and our attention spans and whatnot...then start scrolling through the comments only to find myself near the middle of them and realize Im supposed to be doing school work? Talk about selective attention...
Hank,
I wanted to say thank you for Crash Course (and especially Psychology, my favorite subject). Educating the world for free is very noble, and it is amazing that our current technology allowed us to do this. People, if you watch the videos on even a semi-consistent basis, send them some money!
unfortunately, ADHD destroys any ability to control what you're selectively paying attention to. this can lead to overstimulation, which is why i'm 20 and still frequently have meltdowns like a sleep deprived toddler. -__-
ya same... except i find that it helps me notice TONS of things that other's never would.
stay off those meds
Tom Jackson i totally would, but my parents paid for all my classes this semester. i think they'd be a little disappointed if they wasted all that money on a bunch of F's
i guess so bro, well once you've got mind dulling, fact gagging education out of the way, promise to me you'll drop them, they'll be making you more and more docile. peace
I'm a little older than you, and I have ADHD as well--I wish I could say it gets better-maybe it does for some, but not for me...I get overwhelmed just going to the grocery store! Waaaaay too many choices, too much input. I was MAD when the "little" store down the street shut down... It was the only one I could deal with. I could make decisions, I knew where things were, I could get in and get out easily. Now it's like a 2-3 hour struggle just to get some damn groceries! I start getting anxiety before I even leave the house, bc I know it's gonna take forever and it will get to the point where I just have to get the ---- out of there, even if I'm not done. God, I hate that I have to be this way!!! But too many choices for me=chaos in my head. I know, I'm prob just crazy huh? Lol
I always watch these videos after studying for my psych exams as a complimentary aid . The visuals are very helpful and I enjoy your enthusiasm
“Consciousness is part of our universe, so any physical theory which makes no proper place for it falls fundamentally short of providing a genuine description of the world. A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness.” Roger Penrose
Hank always concentrates on science (which I find boring), I hope John does crash course philosophy. John is just better at speaking poetically and can grasp things that are not defined with science.
My conscious doesn't feel guilty when I steal people's sandwiches.
Hey, I want my sandwich back
me too!
Hah, I have no idea how old my lunchmeat is now. So you know, time to rejoin the toilet for some fun vomiting.
Here's the problem with defining Consciousness (at least, at present time): if we say that Consciousness is "The *awareness* of ourselves and our surroundings", define "awareness". And, obviously, as per the Rules of Reasoning, this should be done without creating a circular definition (e.g. by invoking Consciousness in said definition). Good luck with that.
Heck, even consistently and definitively defining the separation between "ourselves" and "our surroundings" is hard to do without invoking Consciousness.
So much of this episode is super helpful for explaining and understanding what it means to be autistic. No (or at least reduced) selective attention. At a party or in a noisy room, I can't focus on one person talking and tune out the background. When I try to cross the street, I have to process every cigarette butt on the ground, every imperfection in the road, every sound of everything around me, and it can be difficult to figure out if there's a car somewhere in all that mess. And I'm always always always aware of the seams on my socks, the feel of the elastic band on my underwear, and the lopsided configuration of my teeth, every second of every day. When I take forever to figure out where something is or fail to notice one of the billion details I'm being bombarded with which non-autistic people automatically pick out as being important, people think I'm just not paying attention, but in fact, I can't help but pay attention, to EVERYTHING, which makes picking out the one important thing pretty impossible. Still, I also notice all the IMPORTANT stuff that everyone else tunes out, so it's not all bad.
Wow, I think this was the best CC-psyc episode yet. A broad and nuanced discussion in a succinct 9.5 min. Well done! Also, I'm glad to hear consciousness will get 3 episodes. In many undergrad courses, this topic gets shirked to make more time for instructors' pet topics (I'm guilty of this myself). Thanks for not taking that route!
If I had a nickle for every time I realized there was a strange tongue in my mouth.
We would all be millionaires
You're the first person to have ever made me feel resentment toward my own tongue. Well done, sir.... Well done..
8:23 Yoda is on the table
On the table, Yoda is.
"it's weird that there's a tongue in my mouth!" My first thoughts when I finally made it to 1st base :P
These videos are helping with my english and psycology papers. Thank you for the super condensed information and points that would otherwise take days to find like with what Teller said. If you have anything specifically based on the pattern recognition part of the brain's sub-processor as I believe you called it that would be helpful.
Hey, that figurative section on asking physicists and biologists about life and energy and matter is in the opening line of my psych textbook! Like word for word! Cool to know that the team uses the same resources I am, makes me feel like I'm actually learning and it's not for nothing.
5:36 They mentioned me!
7:00 I bet no one noticed the dancing guy in a costume on the table
oh snap!
These are SO well done!! They really help me on my college psych course! Loving the graphics as well.
Honestly, Hank, I learnt so much more than Consciousness.
- I have a tongue and its existence is so weird now and that I am not wearing socks and that I wish I had pizza sooooo mucch and that you shouldn't text and drive and that I feel so potential with all this knowledge and that I am so going to start going on about how awesome this youtube channel is to anyone and everyone I can find and that everytime I watch these videos it answers my question but also creates way more questions and I end up binge watching crashcourse for 3 hours straight.
And for that I thank Hank and his crew
I tend to be in the mood to watch a bunch of educational videos at night rather than the day. In fact, I have been watching 3 videos of CrashCourse from now at 1:30am and wow my mind feels so awake and mesmerized by what Hank is saying. My brain is weird at these times where I become productive at night.
The Commentator Yes, that should be self-explanatory to me already but thanks anyway for addressing it. I don't watch CrashCourse in the night now which is a relief.
this one has got me thinking about my dyslexia. my selective attention is not very selective at all, I tend to be aware of sooooo much information that I get exhausted. it means I spot things others don't, but it also means because I am conscious of so many things I struggle to focus on the task at hand. the double edged sword of dyslexia! (i've never been tested for ADD, i might go get tested for that...)
Could you describe that more? I've never heard dyslexia and sensory overload discussed together. I'm a teacher, and what teachers know best about dyslexia is that we really know so little about it!
I don't do psychology, but this is really interesting and is making me wish I did so! Great job! This is so interesting
Thank you so much for these videos... They really help me to understand my psychology foundations so much better
I love Crash Course Psych so much. I took a number of psychology classes in college and some of this is stuff we never covered. Interesting stuff.
8:23 found something else =D When Hank says Yoda, Yoda appears as if by magic on the table!
I noticed that you changed shirts, but only because I was already thinking that you were going to talk about change blindness and I was extra conscious of everything in the video.
observer bias. . .
Outstanding, thanks to everyone who produced this!
You are the reason I’m passing this class! I love you I’m so grateful for these videos
The blood on the broken phone was hilarious!!
I have to say that having been told about the bear and the gorilla, I was consciously aware of them, so I did notice them.
Also, I think the best example of selective attention is our automatic breathing, or more likely as I've mentioned it, you should now be consciously breathing (for a short time at least, otherwise we'd be incredibly easy to kill)
I was selectively concious about what you said and it makes me feel happy. thank you CC for all you interesting content!
Watching these videos makes me love my degree even more. Thanks CrashCourse!
You guys seem to know exactly when to upload the appropriate video! Last semester John's US History series helped me so much for class and currently I'm taking psychology... so these vids are golden! Thank you.
Now I want a 10-minute video of the intermission looped so that I can dance along with those brains.
This is very interesting for me, because I have Sensory Processing Disorder, and so I'm unable to block out all those other 40-something people in the room. I can't distinguish one conversation from the other, so they melt together to one big blob of... something, but I also can't block it out and just focus on my own conversation. My conversation melts together with all the others. It's very exhausting. Thank you for giving me a better understanding of how all this stuff normally works!
You keep getting better and better. Nice work here!
I like how you point out that you have changed shirts during the show, and they all still look the same colour xD
He didn't change shirts, he LIED. The toy on the table was what changed. Oh there was a dancing bear and a yoda too!
Who's here for the AP test??
This helped me to understand my brain condition which makes me unable to filter stimuli correctly! I love all of your videos!!
I love your videos !!!
So understandable and educational
These videos are perfect to study with!! Great for refreshing my memory after a lecture or before my next test
my problem , is that i'm too conscious of what my brain is doing in the background , when i look at someone and think that he/she is cool , i also know why my brain decided they look cool , in most cases i go through the whole thinking process , and it would be awesome if didn't make me feel awkward around people who act spontaneously while i'm like calculating things in my mind. and it also gives a lot of headaches.
KidGacy maybe you have ADHD or aspergers or are superhuman
This one episode is my favorite of all i have watched yet.
thank you Crash Course for making my learning such a great experience
Nice introduction to one of the most difficult topics ever.
7:35 Your "different" shirts are all "almost" black… It is not like if you change from green to blue, then red! It was between dark black, dark bluish-black, and dark greyish-black…
A slightly different source of light would have been more visible…
Yeah, when they go through all the shirts I was wondering "...those were different shirts?" I had to rewind and watch it again very carefully to notice the differences. That's why his shirt slipped (at least) my mind - because it was nearly identical.
The values were too similar.
Very true that the values were too similar for most of them. But did you notice that during credits he changed shirts again to one with an owl on it?
But did you notice the little moon walking man at 6:57?
even when he points out the three shirts i cannot see the difference...
HOW CAN I EVER SPOT IT IN THAT WAY
I love the intermission. You guys are great ! Thanks for these lessons
these are so useful for my A-level revision :D me and a bunch of friends have been sitting here watching through these for ages now
Very amused at how many items changed on the table as well.
Consciousness is a unique and complex part of our identity and existence. Thanks for exploring this topic!
the ending music makes me happy. love this channel! 😊 they're fun
your lectures are really the best, better than my professor in the national university of singapore! cheers to you
Děkuju neskutečně moc českým překladatelům! Pomáháte mi zvládnout maturitu
Great video, Hank and the Crash Course team! Really fascinating stuff- I've always defined conscious as some variant of constant perception and awareness through mental processes that is affected by factors such as context and personal connotation, but I can see how unspecific my or any definition of consciousness is. At any rate though, fabulous video; I can't wait for next week's! :D
I liked 8:05 coz I did the Loftus and Palmer experiment for my internal assessment during IB
OMG I was literally eating a pizza when 1:17 happened. Almost choked myself with it.
6:50 right before you say black, what the fuck was that.
A minor editing error
Reality is falling apart. These are the first scjigns.
You noticed. You pass!
tuhie uvnpiverooose iooooos falooooliyng aparasft!
I read this comment before watching the actual vid, so I was bracing the whole time for like a scary monster pic or something.
This is one of the best lessons I learned from CrashCourse Psychology. It was great indeed.
This actually helps! Thank YOU!
I like all the little things you put in the video for us to find. Yoda, all the prop and shirt changes..
I love the cute little brain animations! That automatic mind squirrel joke was funny too! also, its really called misdirection? {obligatory kuroko no basket reference}
AYYYYEEEE!!! YOU WATCH ANIME TOO!!!
studying for my ap psych final like
I knew this episode is gonna be especially fun!
You are literally the reason I pass any of my exams so THANK YOU!!!!!
Finally, somebody calls out those goddamn squirrels!
i swear while i was counting the passes i was like what the fuck is this bear walking around and i only counted 12 passes out of the 13
The same thing happened to me, I was counting, then I noticed the bear and realized that in the time I was noticing the bear, I must have missed one pass. I added that one missed pass and continued counting to make a total of 13 passes and one bear.
Are you and I demigods for noticing the bear mid-count? The logical answer is yes. Yes we are.
If anything the addition of the guy in the bear outfit instantly focused my attention on him even more so due to the oddity of the outfit with his face showing. I would think being drawn to new movement or out of place objects would be the norm as its how most complex life reacts to visual stimulus as it signals possible predators or prey
KelsaRavenlock My hypothesis is that many of the people who noticed the bear and miscounted were not completely enticed to follow the instructions, whereas the people who counted correctly and noticed the bear were either knowingly searching for the bear, noticed the bear before it became clear it was unimportant and the brain discounted it as distraction, simply have good peripheral vision, or a mix of two or more of these reasonings.
I, for example, noticed the bear and counted correctly, but I almost miscounted. I can deduct that I noticed the bear, but quickly deduced it to being a distraction.
I saw the bear and counted 14 instead of 13.
Yeah, me too. I was counting the passes, got distracted by movement out of the corner of my eye and lost count. Also the gorilla was literally blocking some of the player movement for a bit there anyway. :P
This is first video I've watched on this channel. Need more......
Within the first second, Hank had me screaming at my computer screen. I'm fangirling so hard right now. Literally lotr and Crash Course are my favs
5:02
I have no socks on.
And I don't have a tongue either.
Ok, I may have lied about the tongue thing.
How Interesting! I also have no socks on.
And I don't have a tongue either.
Ok, I may have lied about the socks thing.
Very funny, because I also happen to have no socks on. Or tongue. Or hands.
Okay, I may have lied about the tongue thing.
So how did I type all this? With tongue, of course.
I've decided that when I run for president some years from now, my campaign slogan will be "MAKE AMERICA SQUIRREL FREE AGAIN".
#SquirrelLivesMatter
You guys should provide the most recent updated citations for MLA, APA, Chicago and any other style. Just in case someone wants to reference this video in an essay or elsewhere, you can provide them with how to do it. Just a suggestion! I am obsessed with these videos by the way.
I must have watched the dancing brains at intermission ten times! I love them!
That moment when everything he said was from Psychology 10th by Myers
This a really interesting series! I'm looking forward to number 9.
I liked how the table item changed every time the table was shown.
As of right now this was posted 9 years ago. And here I sit listening to baby face Hank. Still enjoying it. 😉
Ha! I was eating pizza right at the point when he said "Do I smell pizza?"
When he said " Do i smell Pizza?" I looked down at my actual pizza LOL
I have a test tomorrow and this is a life savor
This is such a great great series!
Wait... Teller speaks??
According to Penn its hard to shut him up. You can talk to him after every show in the lobby of the World Famous Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino.
He just doesn't speak while performing. He said that early on, he learned that anything he said would just detract from what he was doing on stage. And he was probably right.
Y haven't you uploaded for half a year
binge-watching this bc my exam is tmr :')
Thumbs up to all your videos for getting me through first year psych
Kristy Marie saaame
this guy is the best, helps me do well in class