Re: [xmca] Consciousness reframed?

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Jay, the word is around a lot, so it's reasonable for Mike 
to ask "what does it mean?" but the kind of issues you raise 
caused me to say "It's a category" and one not amenable to 
"empirical study of it as such." Empirical study would have 
to be directed towards something more definite.
Andy
Jay Lemke wrote:
> I think that this, for me at least, relegates “consciousness” to the 
> status of a fancy locution that does not really point me toward a 
> phenomenon about which I could learn surprising and important things 
> that were not already implicit in the discourse usage of the term. I 
> suppose that is equivalent to saying I wouldn’t bother trying to make an 
> empirical study of it as such. What I would study is how activity 
> depends on the ways in which we mediate our doings and feelings 
> semiotically and culturally. Or otherwise just how the echo effect 
> emerges and why it makes us feel the way it does. It’s quite possible 
> that these two research agendas don’t ever converge. Or maybe they do.
> JAY.

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