Ano ang Schizophrenia? Ang Schizophrenia ay karamdamang pang-kaisipan ( mental disorder ) kung saan ang tao ay nakakaranas ng hallucinations (nakakarinig ng mga boses na wala naman talaga) at delusions (mga paniwala na hindi akma sa mga totoong nangyari o mga pangyayari). Ang hallucinations o delusions ay nararanasan halos araw-araw sa loob ng anim na buwan. Ilan sa karaniwang tema o paksa ( theme ) ng delusions ay ang paranoia (“ naprapraning ”). Halimbawa pakiramdam nila may gagawa ng masama sa kanila, lalason, may humahabol o may nagmamanman/nagtitiktik ( spying ) sa kanila. Minsan sasabihin nila na ayaw nila tumingin sa mga mata ng tao dahil mababasa ang iniisip nila o kaya nangyayari lahat ng kanila iniisip (tamang-hinala). Kaakibat ng hallucinations at delusions , meron pang ibang sintomas ang schizophrenia katulad ng disorganized thinking – (magulo mag-isip), naoobserbahan ito sa pamamagitan ng kanilang pananalita, maaring paligoy ligoy silang sumagot o minsan ...
I explained why understanding consciousness is important in my previous blog. In short, theories reason from assumptions not to them. Traditional cognitive theories assume consciousness and therefore can never explain it. This is a serious limitation. Not being able to explain consciousness means that psychologists cannot fully explain all that derives from consciousness which is essentially everything psychological. I concluded my previous blog by saying that neural network models are computational neuropsychological methods that offer the exciting possibility of advancing our understanding of real brain models including how they compute qualia, including the subjective experience of conscious awareness. In this blog I focus on the brain models of attention that Michael S. A. Graziano (2013) claims cause consciousness in his book entitled Consciousness and the Social Brain. Graziano reminded us that our conscious experience is a model of external reality, not an exact copy of it, by...