Intrinsic Awareness, the Fundamental State of Consciousness
Weili Luo
arXiv Preprint Archive January 12, 2011 preprint
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Physics.gen-ph |
| Key points | Proposes that intrinsic awareness is a fundamental, irreducible state of consciousness that does not depend on external environment, sense organs, or cognition. |
Abstract
In an effort to simplify the complexity in the studies of consciousness, the author suggests to divide the conscious experiences into a fundamental state, the intrinsic awareness (IA), and functions of this fundamental state. IA does not depend on external environment, our sense organs, and our cognitions. This ground state of consciousness is timeless and irreducible to sub-constituents; therefore reductionism can apply neither to the analysis nor to the new theory of IA. The methodology for investigating IA is proposed and the relation between IA and the hard problem in consciousness proposed by Chalmers is discussed.