IB PHILOSOPHY SL CHAPTER 2: PERSONHOOD 2023 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED AND PASSED

Necessary Condition - CORRECT ANSWER a characteristic that is absolutely required for something to belong to a category. Sufficient Condition - CORRECT ANSWER a characteristic that is "enough" to make something belong to a category. Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER a state of wakefulness where a being is aware of its immediate surroundings and is able to respond to them. According to Nagel, consciousness is also what it is like to be oneself and to experience that state of being. Agency - CORRECT ANSWER the ability people have to act and by extension to cause their own actions in a voluntary and intentional way. Self Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER being "conscious about consciousness" or a being's knowledge that it exists as a conscious being and an individual. Morality - CORRECT ANSWER beliefs about right and wrong that are applied to the actions of other people. Usually, moral decisions are socially based and acceptable. Turing Test - CORRECT ANSWER test proposed by Alan Turing to determine whether or not a subject is talking to a human or a machine. The goal of was to see if the machine in question could think to the point where it became indistinguishable from a human in conversation. The test did not, however, take into account that if a machine was able to achieve this end, that it might not necessarily be derivative of artificial intelligence and understanding, but simply the computer's adaption to it's situation.