Le 24-juil.-06, à 13:56, Russell Standish a écrit :
> Consciousness is the state of "being like something" to use Nagel's
> term. It is also the characteristic of the "reference class" in
> Anthropic reasoning.
>
> Self-awareness is being aware of oneself as a distinct thing different
> from the environment.
>
> It is not immediately obvious that these are identical - but perhaps
> I'm overlooking something.
I am pretty sure consciousness and self-awareness are different concept.
But we are a long way to distinguishing them theoretically at the
present stage, so I would say that to insist on the difference here is
akin to a 1004 fallacy, imo.
The difference you are mentioning is the difference between awareness
and self-awareness, or between consciousness and self-consciousness I
would say,
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Tue Jul 25 2006 - 05:48:22 PDT