Consciousness
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| - | '''Consciousness''' is variously defined as subjective experience, awareness, alertness, wakefulness, and the ability to experience "feeling". It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena. Consciousness | + | '''Consciousness''' is variously defined as subjective experience, awareness, alertness, wakefulness, and the ability to experience "feeling". It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena. Consciousness is a phenomenon which arises at the intersection of nature and culture. At the core it is a biological phenomenon. According to Searle (2002), it is simply a "feature of the brain": "consciousness is a state that the brain is in". |
| - | * the private component is associated with the phenomenal consciousness which derives from subjective experience that can not be shared with others. Phenomenal consciousness is responsible for the explanatory gap and the [[Hard_problem_of_consciousness|hard problem of consciousness]] (Chalmers 1996). | + | Consciousness as two major components, |
| - | * the public, accessible component which is associated with the common understanding which derives from shared objective knowledge, i.e. from things which can be shared with others | + | |
| + | * the private component is associated with the '''phenomenal consciousness''' which derives from subjective experience that can not be shared with others. It is based on the concrete feelings and specific sensations that can not be explained to others. Phenomenal consciousness is responsible for the explanatory gap and the [[Hard_problem_of_consciousness|hard problem of consciousness]] (Chalmers 1996). | ||
| + | * the public, accessible component which is associated with the common understanding which derives from shared objective knowledge, i.e. from things which can be shared with others. It is also called '''access consciousness''', because it is based on abstract informations, logical relations and mental representations that can be accessed by and explained to others. | ||
== Phenomenal consciousness == | == Phenomenal consciousness == | ||
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== Books == | == Books == | ||
| - | * David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, | + | * David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, Oxford University Press, 1996 |
| - | * Uriah Kriegel, Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory, | + | * Uriah Kriegel, Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory, Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| - | * Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, | + | * Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| + | * John Searle, Consciousness and Language, Cambridge University Press, 2002 | ||
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== Links == | == Links == | ||
