Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4222
In English "consciousness" has several very different meanings: (1)
the neuro-physiological state of not sleeping; (2) the neuro-
physiological state of not being in a coma; (3) cognition; and (4)
more specific definitions of (4), such as perception, what one's inner
self introspects upon, self-awareness, etc. (to be thorough, one more
definition might be mentioned: the mutual self-awareness of a
collectivity, e.g., national consciousness, class consciousness). The
problem with the word "consciousness," then, is just not its
ambiguity, but rather its promiscuousness: it is pressed into service
to describe neurological processes and subjective experiences that are
strikingly disparate. Any work with "consciousness" in the title
requires judicious attention to its usage. Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4222
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