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Full Idea
Is consciousness just a special type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a special way of being conscious?
Gist of Idea
Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious?
Source
Robert van Gulick (Mirror Mirror - Is That All? [2006], Intro)
Book Ref
'Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness', ed/tr. Kriegel,U /Williford,K [MIT 2006], p.11
A Reaction
This is a really good key question, which has hovered over the debate since Locke's definition of a person (as 'self-aware'). I take the self to be a mechanism of most brains, which is prior to consciousness. Maybe the two are inseparable.
| 9324 | From the teleopragmatic perspective, life is largely an informational process [Gulick] |
| 9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
| 9320 | Higher-order theories divide over whether the higher level involves thought or perception [Gulick] |
| 9321 | Higher-order models reduce the problem of consciousness to intentionality [Gulick] |
| 9322 | Maybe qualia only exist at the lower level, and a higher-level is needed for what-it-is-like [Gulick] |
| 9325 | In contrast with knowledge, the notion of understanding emphasizes practical engagement [Gulick] |
| 9326 | Knowing-that is a much richer kind of knowing-how [Gulick] |
| 9327 | Organisms understand their worlds better if they understand themselves [Gulick] |