Change Blindness Analysis

1. Professor Dennett does not believe in the "hard" problem of consciousness as he believes that any aspect of it that is based in reality will have a scientific basis. The issue is that many people see the aspects of consciousness that there is a scientific basis as not real consciousness; which can actually be seen in the comments on that very video. As different pieces of consciousness become explainable, the definition in people's minds seems to change. I agree with him in the fact that the hard problem of consciousness does not exist. A big part of the hard problem is how we experience different events in life, and since emotions are controlled through the brain and neurons, it likely occurs through a merging of different pathways in the

Change blindness is the inability to perceive when a change occurs, commonly due to attention being focused elsewhere. The more that is in a picture, the harder it is to notice changes. In a highly simplistic image, a person employs bottom-up processing, where their attention automatically directs to the change. As the images gradually became more complex with more stimuli, it became harder to find the change as there is too much to focus on. Top-down processing must be used, which takes more effort to use. Once the change is found, it can be hard to see anything else. Change blindness relates to consciousness because it is based on what a person is aware of. A lack of blindness, which based on the definition - awareness of something - can be translated to a lack of consciousness. A person's consciousness is what a person notices, so small details, like change, may not be part of a person's

Apollo takes advantage of top-down attention by directing a person's attention to something unrelated to the trick that he is performing. He uses humor and unexpected actions or items that cause a person to focus on items that are not part of the main trick that he is pulling. With one man, he caused him to focus on the belief that his wallet was missing to take off his watch. Then he used the shrimp and the knife, so the man did not notice the fact that he was wearing the same watch. With the woman, he uses the trick of keeping the coin on her forehead to distract her from noticing that he took her watch. In the same vein, she was so focused on the fact that the coin was no longer on her forehead, that she never noticed that her watch was gone. In an example of bottom-up processing, he also uses the power of mirror neurons, which allow people to sympathize and understand the perception of others, to misdirect. By keeping his eyesight on his hand movements where nothing is occurring, other people are forced to focus their eyes in the same place, so they miss the movements where the actual trick is