Some Recent Definitions of Consciousness.

Some Concepts of Consciousness

Consciousness is a mongrel concept: there are a number of very different "consciousnesses". Phenomenal consciousness is experience; the phenomenally conscious aspect of a state is what it is like to be in that state. The mark of access-consciousness, by contrast, is availability for use in reasoning and rationally guiding speech and action. These concepts are often partly or totally conflated, ...

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The feasible region of this LP is in general, a convex polyhedron. Visualize it as a polygon in 2 dimensions, for simplicity. Now, maximizing yT b is the same as maximizing the projection of the vector y in the direction represented by vector b. For whichever direction b we choose, the point y that maximizes yT b cannot lie strictly in the interior of the feasible region. The reason is that, fr...

Legal Consciousness: Some Observations

This article argues that US studies of ‘legal consciousness’ have much to o¡er UK socio-legal studies. It is, perhaps, surprising that so little attention has been paid to this set of understandings. I seek to rectify that imbalance in the transatlantic relationship by outlining legal consciousness and its critiques. I then draw on homelessness applicant interview data to discuss their ‘legal c...

Some aspects of phenomenal consciousness