Making Sense of Consciousness Part 4: States of Consciousness

waking, sleeping, anaesthesia, coma, and other "states of consciousness"

the red arrow points to the thalamus In the past 3 entries in my consciousness sequence I was focused on conscious sensory perception — the difference between sense data that we subjectively “notice” or “are aware of”, vs. sense data that we are exposed to, and which may affect us, but without our knowledge. This is one of Erik Hoel’s three common-sense characteristics of consciousness. We are conscious of a thing when we have a subjective experience of noticing or perceiving it; we are unconscious of the same thing when we have no such experience. Another common-sense characteristic of…

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