Psychology Modal Spectrum Full Synthesis C1 - Exercise Worksheet

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Modal Spectrum — Full Synthesis

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The explanatory gap may never yield at all, because it asks why processing feels like anything. Even a complete map of every neural pathway would not logically entail subjective experience. Such a creature could not be detected from the outside.

Grammar Reference · Modal Spectrum — Full Synthesis

Epistemic certainty

This must be an emergent property. — near-certain deduction from evidence

Epistemic possibility

Consciousness may well resist any physical explanation. — strong possibility, hedged

Past modal speculation

She must have known the argument was flawed. — deduction about a completed past situation

Deontic + register

We cannot simply infer experience from behaviour. — logical prohibition in formal register

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Modal Spectrum — Full Synthesis

1.Even a perfect brain scan tell us why experience feels the way it does.

2.Chalmers argues that consciousness be something beyond purely physical processes.

3.Seth's predictive processing model explain some aspects of perception, but not all.

4.A philosophical zombie have passed every behavioural test without any inner experience.

5.Dennett misunderstood the original argument, given how differently he frames the question.

6.Researchers to consider the moral status of AI systems before deploying them at scale.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.It is certain that qualia are real phenomena that science ignores at its peril.

2.Perhaps the brain generates consciousness through emergent processes we do not yet understand.

3.It is possible that Dennett was wrong to dismiss the hard problem so confidently.

4.It is advisable for AI researchers to take sentience seriously as a design question.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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