Consciousness

Distinguish experience, wakefulness and report before comparing explanations.

How to study this source

• What would explain conscious experience?

  criticismWakefulness, phenomenal experience and report

  Distinguish experience, wakefulness and report before comparing explanations.

• Must thought represent the world?

  extensionNamed section and worked examples

  Use the entry’s distinctions and bibliography to test the route’s central argument, rather than treating a summary as a substitute for the primary source.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Towards a true neural stance on consciousness

  Victor Lamme. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• A theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior

  Casali et al.. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Quest for Consciousness

  Christof Koch. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Hidden Spring

  Mark Solms. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Conscious Mind

  David Chalmers. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.