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States of Consciousness extends Thomas Natsoulas' development of
the psychology of consciousness by giving sustained attention to
the stream of consciousness and its component 'pulses of
experience'. Natsoulas' unrivalled scholarship across psychology,
philosophy and cognate fields means that very often surprising
connections are made between the works of leading theorists of
consciousness, including Brentano, Mead, Bergmann, Strawson, James,
Freud, Skinner, Hebb, Gibson, O'Shaughnessy and Woodruff Smith. At
a time when interest in consciousness and the brain is growing
rapidly, this book provides an in-depth analysis of sophisticated
psychological accounts that pertain to consciousness. Its breadth
of coverage and interdisciplinary nature will be of interest to
postgraduates and specialists in a range of fields, particularly
the history of psychology and philosophy of mind.
This book describes and proposes an unusual integrative approach to
human perception that qualifies as both an ecological and a
phenomenological approach at the same time. Thomas Natsoulas shows
us how our consciousness - in three of six senses of the word that
the book identifies - is involved in our activity of perceiving the
one and only world that exists, which includes oneself as a proper
part of it, and that all of us share together with the rest of life
on earth. He makes the case that our stream of consciousness - in
the original Jamesian sense minus his mental/physical dualism -
provides us with firsthand contact with the world, as opposed to
our having such contact instead with theorist-posited items such as
inner mental representations, internal pictures, or sense-image
models, pure figments and virtual objects, none of which can have
effects on our sensory receptors.
Consciousness is familiar to us first hand, yet difficult to
understand. This book concerns six basic concepts of consciousness
exercised in ordinary English. The first is the interpersonal
meaning and requires at least two people involved in relation to
one another. The second is a personal meaning, having to do with
one's own perspective on the kind of person one is and the life one
is leading. The third meaning has reference simply to one being
occurrently aware of something or as though of something. The
fourth narrows the preceding sense to one having direct occurrent
awareness of happenings in one's own experiential stream. The fifth
is the unitive meaning of consciousness and has reference to those
portions of one's stream that one self-appropriates to make up
one's conscious being. The last is the general-state meaning and
picks out the general operating mode in which we most often
function.
This book describes and proposes an unusual integrative approach to
human perception that qualifies as both an ecological and a
phenomenological approach at the same time. Thomas Natsoulas shows
us how our consciousness - in three of six senses of the word that
the book identifies - is involved in our activity of perceiving the
one and only world that exists, which includes oneself as a proper
part of it, and that all of us share together with the rest of life
on earth. He makes the case that our stream of consciousness - in
the original Jamesian sense minus his mental/physical dualism -
provides us with firsthand contact with the world, as opposed to
our having such contact instead with theorist-posited items such as
inner mental representations, internal pictures, or sense-image
models, pure figments and virtual objects, none of which can have
effects on our sensory receptors.
Consciousness is familiar to us first hand, yet difficult to
understand. This book concerns six basic concepts of consciousness
exercised in ordinary English. The first is the interpersonal
meaning and requires at least two people involved in relation to
one another. The second is a personal meaning, having to do with
one's own perspective on the kind of person one is and the life one
is leading. The third meaning has reference simply to one being
occurrently aware of something or as though of something. The
fourth narrows the preceding sense to one having direct occurrent
awareness of happenings in one's own experiential stream. The fifth
is the unitive meaning of consciousness and has reference to those
portions of one's stream that one self-appropriates to make up
one's conscious being. The last is the general-state meaning and
picks out the general operating mode in which we most often
function.
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