Consciousness - - What Is It ?

"What We Feel, and What Doth us Befall": A Study of Letter Motif in Macbeth 

The present essay is an attempt to scrutinize Macbeth's letter to Lady Macbeth formalistically with much care and seek hints which may lead us back and forth to understand what befell before and after the composition and emission of the letter. The letter seems to help us plunge into Macbeth's consciousness, and of course later to that of Lady Macbeth; it is a transparent aid to perceive the hi...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

Locke on Consciousness, Personal Identity and the Idea of Duration

It is as undeniable as it is unhelpful to say that for Locke personal identity consists in the identity of consciousness. It is undeniable because he just comes out and says as much in passages like the following: “[T]he same consciousness being preserv’d. . .the personal Identity is preserv’d.” (II.xxvii.13)1 It is unhelpful, however, for two reasons: First, it is unclear what consciousness is...

What is Consciousness? Review of "The Science Of Consciousness" by Max Velmans (Ed.)

Max Velmans is very clear about what a scientific understanding of consciousness must be: Thus, to understand what consciousness is, we need to understand what causes it, what its function(s) may be, how it relates to nonconscious processing in the brain and so on (p. 3). After pointing to structural features of this new book (section 1) I try to highlight its contribution to the different ques...

Implications of Gender Consciousness for Students in IT Programs

Previous studies claim that heightened gender consciousness helps promote women's careers. One professional arena in which women are seriously underrepresented is information technology (IT). This proposal investigates the effects of gender consciousness among students preparing for careers in information technology. The questions that guide the study are: What is the overall level of gender co...

Explaining Consciousness

scious, though if ordinary dreams are ever conscious states they are counterexamples to this generalization.3 Whatever the case about that, the property of creature consciousness is relatively unproblematic. We can see this by considering creatures mentally less well-endowed than we are whose mental states are never conscious, even·when they are awake.4 Their mental states are all like the nonc...