What Locke calls "the same consciousness" may be understood as some representational content that is always present in my experience and that both identifies any experience as mine and gives me a sense of a continuous self by virtue of its continual presence in my experience.
(Vimalakīrti, 1991 74) The same principle applies in the case of consciousness and the emptiness of consciousness, as well as to the rest of the five psychophysical aggregates the aggregate and its emptiness are not causally related.
Fourteen months ago he showed the same symptoms, as well as a loss of consciousness and numbness in the legs during a lunch break.
Kulstad goes on to narrow the question further: is consciousness of our own mental operations the same thing as consciousness?
It was a heroic effort, and it may have helped form the temperament of Obama, who also refused to be defined by exclusion and rage, and who lives with the same double consciousness (black, and universal) as Ellison.
Steak came to me the same way consciousness did.
It's the same double consciousness I acquired at U.N.C., though I didn't think about it that way as a student.
Both Butler and Reid believe Locke's view implies that no one exists beyond the present moment, i.e., that Locke's view is just the following: X at t1 is identical to Y at t2 just in case Y's consciousness is one and the same as X's consciousness.
This emotion again fits very well Schleiermacher's characterization of religious emotion as a "self-consciousness," but it is at the same time, as Otto suggests, a consciousness of a God who has definite, positive features.
Nagel ([1974], p. 436) thinks of consciousness as (remembered?) 'conscious experience'; Lorenz ([1977], pp. 169 170) thinks of it as our 'subjective experience,' our 'feelings'; McGinn ([1999], pp. 2 3) considers it 'the having of sensations, emotions, feelings, thoughts.' McGinn ([1999]) does not consider consciousness the same as self-awareness.
