Term
Consciousness
used in 50 texts across the archive
“Human consciousness is a new awareness of others, as mediated by a sign.”
In use
“First is to say that consciousness is only possible for soul or spirit.”
“So consciousness is the plainest empirical fact in the world, perhaps, as Descartes observed, the only indubitable fact, the one thing we can’t doubt. There is nothing we know better.”
“In evolutionary terms, consciousness is a way for an organism to negotiate its environment.”