Thursday 15 November 2007

I don't have conscious experiences

• My consciousness consists in and extends to that which I am conscious of. If I am conscious of a door then that door forms part of the totality of my conscious experience; it is to some extent ‘consciousness’.

• When I look at an object it is not just that I become conscious of it — it becomes my consciousness.

• I cannot have an experience, since that implies there is some agent separate from the experience having the having. I can only be an experience.