Supplement: To speak of consciousness as self-awareness or self-consciousness too, I think, that this requires sexuality. For just having to eat there is no need for self-awareness, the organism only has to be aware of its hunger, and of potential food to fulfill this need. But if there is a
Helmut, John, List
I don’t know if there is a ‘widely accepted definition of consciousness’. I am
referring to Peirce’s discussions of the term. I like his differentiation
between the immediate and mediate consciousness. Notice that he refers to BOTH
types as ‘consciousness’. That is, he
Dear John, dear Edwina, dear all,
is there a widely accepted definition of consciousness? If you say like "Alex> My concept of consciousness would be an awareness of part of one's thoughts and ability to reason about it", I think, "awareness" is equally difficult to define, if not the same
John, List
I view the two terms of awareness and consciousness as aspects of Secondness
and Thirdness, where, as Peirce wrote, “two sets of objects, what we are
immediately conscious of and what we are mediately conscious of” [5.395]/.
Awareness would obviously function within a categorical
