Nishida is aware of the paradox of such formulations that would make consciousness the subject of sentences that describe it, and he sometimes resorts to explicitly paradoxical descriptions such as "seeing without a seer" and "seeing the form of the formless, hearing the voice of the voiceless".
But taking condition C as partly constitutive of consciousness would join higher order thought theories in making consciousness a matter of having certain dispositions.
"The only way I can look at that is, it's making consciousness sexy," he said of the People plug.
We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.
After all, what can we make of consciousness when it creates a new world and our experience of it?
No mention is made of consciousness.
Humans can't make sense of consciousness for the same reason that lobsters can't understand general relativity.
It is a report from the edge of darkness, made in the consciousness of responsibility.
My belief is that the news should be made with full consciousness of the ways that news -- by definition -- drives human thought and emotion, and has the potential to mobilize our instincts to empathize with each other.
