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Indeed, according to Reid, it is impossible to currently apprehend any events in the past; apprehension is confined to perceiving present objects or being conscious of present mental operations (Essays, 23, 253).
Conscious mental states are ontologically subjective, in that they do not exist independently of an observer.
Conscious mental processes appear to provide highly flexible and adaptive forms of control.
Conscious mental states are mental states with phenomenal characters, states for which there is something it is like to have them.
Conscious mental stress induces measurable and significant changes in dynamic electrophysiology across the human heart.
Many neuroscience experiments have indicated that the brain processes information much faster than conscious awareness can keep track of it, so that countless mental operations run, in the neuroscientist David Eagleman's phrase, "under the hood" – unseen by the conscious mind in the driving-seat.
But this knowledge is a part – a huge part – of our conscious (repeat, conscious) mental life.
The problem is that some conscious mental states don't seem to have propositional content.
Like Descartes, James identified "thinking" with any form of inner conscious mental activity.
These thoughts, desires, and feelings are of course conscious mental states.
Two of Searle's examples are "marriage and money", which are created by conscious mental activity.
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