Being Conscious Is Something's Being Actual -- What, and How?


Συγγραφέας: Ted Honderich


Ted Honderich: Being Conscious Is Something's Being Actual -- What, and How? (html, 12K)
1 Ordinary Consciousness -- An Initial Clarification Missing? Despite our commonsense primary definition of what it is to be conscious, and announcements of consensus, the philosophy and science of consciousness is a melee of disagreement. Is this owed to the absence of an initial clarification of the subject? Is there a rough necessary and sufficient condition of ordinary consciousness to be found in five leading ideas in the philosophy & science? If not, is there anyway data for an initial clarification?