While your subjective experience typically is quite rich and full of information, phenomenal consciousness does not “present” all the information that is processed by your nervous system. As we have argued, the various information-processing mechanisms, such as attention, process so much information...
It is concluded that, because consciousness is essentially subjective, it is best understood in terms of the subjective meaning subjects endow upon the constant impact the world makes on them. Being conscious is, as such, simply being-in-the-world. Phenomenal character, it is further claimed, ...
This challenge has been augmented by a highly influential – yet controversial – dissociation suggested by the philosopher Ned Block between Phenomenal consciousness, or the “what it is like” to have an experience, and Access consciousness, indexing the ability to report that one has that ...
Qualitative Attribution, Phenomenal Experience and Being 441 The original and necessary consciousness of the identity of oneself is at the same time a consciousness of an equally necessary unity of the synthesis of all phenomena according to concepts, that is, according to rules, which render them ...
Moreover, it encounters an echo in modified states of consciousness (drug’s effects and mystical experiences; Carhart-Harris et al., 2012; Lebedev et al., 2015), as well as several psychiatric disorders and symptoms characterized by an improper appraisal of real and nonreal events, such as ...
2011. Phenomenal realist physicalism implies coherency of epiphenomenalist meaning. Journal of Consciousness Studies 19(3–4): 145–163.Robinson, William S. 2012. "Phenomenal Realist Physicalism Implies Coherency of Epiphenomenalist Meaning." Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 19, nos. 3-4, pp...
It is concluded that, because consciousness is essentially subjective, it is best understood in terms of the subjective meaning subjects endow upon the constant impact the world makes on them. Being conscious is, as such, simply being-in-the-world. Phenomenal character, it is further claimed, ...
Husserl, by certain fundamental features of consciousness: intentionality, synthesis, horizon or the fact of being constituent. By favouring donation to intentionality, J. -L. Marion opens the limits of phenomenality towards a phenomenon which donates itself by excess of...
ConsciousnessIntentionalityPhenomenalityInner awarenessNoematic meaningModalityConstitutionTranscendentalResponding to the myth of a purely sensuous "given", we turn to phenomenology, to the structure of consciousness in an everyday perception of an everyday object. We first consider Brentano's model of an...
The implications of this approach on consciousness, the meaning(lessness) of our existence, the possibility of thought engineering as well as its religious implications, are at the very least puzzling. I adopt the conversational method in African philosophy as my preferred method of research. ...