Consciousness

Definitions

Chaplin

  1. The state of awareness. 1
  2. The totality of experience at any given moment as opposed to mind which is the sum of past experiences.
  3. Awareness of acts, activities, and reactions.
  4. The subjective aspect of neurological activities.
  5. Self-knowledge; self-awareness.

English & English

  1. That which experiences; the mind or self.2
  2. The sum total of the individual’s lifetime experiences.
  3. The sum total of the processs of being aware, or of taking into account of, or reacting to, objects; the sum total of acts.
  4. That which can be introspected.
  5. The subjective correlate of certain of the higher neural activities.
  6. A (sub)verbal commentary on one’s own behaviour.
  7. The Conscious (psychoanalytic)

Quotes

Solms, Mark

“In the exteroceptive domain, [consciousness] manifests as attention and attenuation, associated with the increase and decrease of sensory precision. In the proprioceptive domain, it corresponds to the precision of [possible uses of objects], of the sort associated with goal selection and realisation. In the interoceptive domain, it literally determines ‘gut feelings’, i.e. the best explanation for interoceptive signals that have been enabled or aroused. However, it is very important to note that all of these things can occur without consciousness; consciousness is the feeling of these things.”3

“Our minds are woven from order itself, which emerges spontaneously, then defends itself against the onslaughts of entropy.”4

References

  1. Dictionary of Psychology↩︎

  2. A Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychological and Psychoanalytical Terms↩︎

  3. The Hidden Spring, Mark Solms, p. 209↩︎

  4. ibid, p. 268↩︎