How to think about consciousness | Psyche Guides

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Amy Kindis Russell K Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in California. She is the author of Persons and Personal Identity (2015), Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (2020) and Imagination and Creative Thinking (2022), and the co-author of What Is Consciousness?: A Debate (2023) and Philosophy of Mind: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments (2024). She serves as the editor of the scholarly blog on imagination, The Junkyard. Edited by Sam Dresser Save Share Post Email Imagine that you’ve been asked by your boss to make a presentation to some potential investors. A lot is at stake. As you stand at the front of the conference room, delivering your prepared remarks, you watch the group closely and try to figure out how well you’re doing. The person directly across the table gives an encouraging smile, but what’s that weird expression on the face of the person to their right? Are they feeling confused about what you’ve just said, or are they just bored? And what

Imagine that you’ve been asked by your boss to make a presentation to some potential investors. A lot is at stake. As you stand at the front of the conference room, delivering your prepared remarks, you watch the group closely and try to figure out how well you’re doing. The person directly across the table gives an encouraging smile, but what’s that weird expression on the face of the person to their right? Are they feeling confused about what you’ve just said, or are they just bored? And what should you make of the smirking person near the window? Does their face mean amusement or scorn?…

How to think about consciousness | Psyche Guides

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