[xmca] Q: can we define consciousness?

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Mike Cole wrote:
> And, can i repeat my request for what people are talking about in their 
> various invocations of the term, consciousness? How many meanings 
> floating around there.
> Is there also one correct way of defining consciousness or are people 
> using that term as a pseudoconcept while thinking they are thinking 
> scientifically?? I fear the latter.
> But will celebrate learning how and when I am wrong and how to know.
> mike

Thinking aloud ... consciousness is all those active
processes of the person which form part of the person's
relationship with their environment.

Such a definition covers a wide range of things, because I
think you have to have a "definition" of "consciousness" as
a whole process, and not try to restrict it to one "grade"
of consciousness.

But I admit, that's the first time I've actually tried to do
a definition of "consciousness", and it's probably deeply
flawed.

Andy

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