| Abstract: |
In the interests of (a) forestalling the historically familiar "solution" to the
problem of consciousness; (b) showing that there are problems of
consciousness, not just one, requiring the scientific attentions of psychologists;
and (c) enlisting the energy and wisdom of psychologists and allied scientists in
the effort to solve these problems, the present article reviews and discusses an
array of problems of consciousness that have been recently introduced into the
literature. They are the problems of conscious experience, intentionality,
imagination, awareness, introspection, personal unity, the subject,
"consciousness" (as more or less), the normal waking state, conscious
behavior, and explicit consciousness. Each main section is devoted to one of
these problems and focuses on one or a few authors who have addressed it.
The article concludes with a brief section on the future of consciousness. (5
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