PHI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pragmatism
12 Sep 2016
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Principles of psychology, chapter ix: the stream of thought. The only thing which psychology has the right to postulate at the outset is that thinking of some sort is going on (224). Absolutely insulated from my your consciousness. There is no way to fuse my your consciousness. Ones consciousness never comes into plain sight of another"s consciousness. Let us call it the stream of thought of consciousness, or of subjective life (239). I can only define continuous" as that which is without breach, crack, or division (237): time gap/interruption. Sleep, coma, alcohol, drugs: changes from moment to moment. If the consciousness is not aware [of breaches] it cannot feel them as interruptions (237): consciousness is only aware of consciousness. We actually ignore most of the things before us (284: physiological attention/inattention, selective attention/inattention. No one ever had a simple sensation by itself (224). Consciousness is a teeming multiplicity of objects and relations.
