By Susanna Siegel
What can we see? we're visually aware of colours and shapes, yet are we additionally visually aware of advanced houses comparable to being John Malkovich? during this publication, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for figuring out the contents of visible adventure, and argues that those contents contain every type of advanced houses. Siegel starts off through reading the suggestion of the contents of expertise, and through arguing that theorists of all stripes should still settle for that stories have contents. She then introduces a mode for locating the contents of expertise: the strategy of extraordinary distinction. this technique is based purely minimally on introspection, and permits rigorous aid for claims approximately event. She then applies the tactic to make the case that we're aware of many forms of homes, of every type of causal houses, and of many different advanced homes. She is going directly to use the strategy to aid examine tough questions about our recognition of gadgets and their function within the contents of expertise, and to reconceptualize the excellence among conception and sensation. Siegel's effects are vital for plenty of components of philosophy, together with the philosophy of brain, epistemology, and the philosophy of technology. also they are very important for the psychology and cognitive neuroscience of imaginative and prescient.
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Being conscious of itself, consciousness is the knower of itself. Being the knower of itself, consciousness is both the knower and the known. Being both the knower and the known, consciousness is also the process of knowing. Thus consciousness has three qualities within its self-referral singularity—the qualities of knower, knowing, and known—the three qualities of ‘subject’ (knower), ‘object’ (known), and the relationship between the subject and object (process of knowing). Wherever there is subject-object relatedness; wherever subject is related to object; wherever subject is experiencing object; wherever subject (knower) is knowing object, these three together are indications of the existence of consciousness.
9. 12 Preamble—What is Consciousness? Hagelin argues that the unified field exists permanently (it is eternal) and everything else exists by virtue of it. Taking the unified field, as identified by physics, as the same field of Transcendental Consciousness experienced as unbounded awareness by the individual, then one can appreciate that Transcendental Consciousness, as described by Maharishi, is a reliable state of consciousness. The nature of this state is that it is unchanging or eternal and it is bliss consciousness.
In speaking of being fully awake, we are speaking of a human subject. The human nervous system is that nervous system that has the potential to rise to and experience higher states of consciousness. Another important point raised by Searle with respect to any research and understanding of consciousness, is that subjectivity is inherent within consciousness. From the perspective of Maharishi Vedic Science, self-referral consciousness is a field of pure subjectivity, where all that there is is consciousness knowing itself.