The Conceptual Representation of ConsciousnessConsciousness is familiar to us first hand, yet difficult to understand. This book concerns six basic concepts of consciousness exercised in ordinary English. The first is the interpersonal meaning and requires at least two people involved in relation to one another. The second is a personal meaning, having to do with one's own perspective on the kind of person one is and the life one is leading. The third meaning has reference simply to one being occurrently aware of something or as though of something. The fourth narrows the preceding sense to one having direct occurrent awareness of happenings in one's own experiential stream. The fifth is the unitive meaning of consciousness and has reference to those portions of one's stream that one self-appropriates to make up one's conscious being. The last is the general-state meaning and picks out the general operating mode in which we most often function. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
the personal meaning | 86 |
the awareness meaning | 158 |
the innerawareness meaning | 230 |
the unitive meaning | 304 |
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activity apprehended belonging called chapter cognitive comprising concept of consciousness concept of consciousness2 concerning conscious psychical process consciousness6 consciring considered consists count noun defined described distinct durational components effect employed engaged episode example existence fact faculty false consciousness feeling firsthand Freud function Gibson Hagstrom Hamilton illustrative quotations inner awareness instantiated interpersonal intrinsic involved James James’s kind of consciousness latter Lewis Lewis’s meaning mental modifications mental occurrences mental-occurrence instances mind Natsoulas ness O’Shaughnessy 2000 object occurrent awareness OED’s one’s consciousness one’s experiences one’s experiential stream one’s stream oneself particular consciousnesses perceiving perceptual awareness perceptual experiences person phenomena phenomenon phrase possess preceding present proposed psychological psychologists quoted reference regard relation relevant respect ruler scientific sciousness self-consciring sense speak statement stream of consciousness subentry take place Tao Te Ching Taoist tertiary consciousness thereby therein thereof thoughts transpire unconscious undergoing understanding witness word consciousness wuwei