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Zoran Josipovic, Implicit–explicit gradient of nondual awareness or consciousness as such, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2021, Issue 2, 2021, niab031, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab031 Consciousness is multi-dimensional but is most often portrayed with a two-dimensional (2D) map that has global levels or states on one axis and phenomenal contents on the other. On this map, awareness is conflated either with general alertness or with phenomenal content. This contributes to ongoing difficulties in the scientific understanding of consciousness. Previously, I have proposed that consciousness as such or nondual awareness—a basic non-conceptual, non-propositional awareness in itself free of subject-object fragmentation—is a unique kind that cannot be adequately specified by this 2D map of states and contents. Here, I propose an implicit–explicit gradient of nondual awareness to be added as the z-axis to the existing 2D map of consciousness. This gradient informs about the degree to

Zoran Josipovic, Implicit–explicit gradient of nondual awareness or consciousness as such, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2021, Issue 2, 2021, niab031, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab031 Consciousness is multi-dimensional but is most often portrayed with a two-dimensional (2D) map that has global levels or states on one axis and phenomenal contents on the other. On this map, awareness is conflated either with general alertness or with phenomenal content. This contributes to ongoing difficulties in the scientific understanding of consciousness. Previously, I have proposed that consciousn