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''“...one power, whether we should call it soul or something else, by which we perceive through these as instruments the objects of perception.”'' | ''“...one power, whether we should call it soul or something else, by which we perceive through these as instruments the objects of perception.”'' | ||
<br />- Plato, Theaetetus, 184d | <br />- Plato, Theaetetus, 184d | ||
<br />''“For it is through our souls that we are what we are, not through our bodies.”'' | <br />''“For it is through our souls that we are what we are, not through our bodies.”'' | ||
<br />- Al-Kindī, Risāla fī al-Ḥīla li-Dafʿ al-Aḥzān (On Dispelling Sadness), § XIV.1 | <br />- Al-Kindī, Risāla fī al-Ḥīla li-Dafʿ al-Aḥzān (On Dispelling Sadness), § XIV.1 | ||
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=== 1.1 Phenomenal consciousness === | === 1.1 Phenomenal consciousness === | ||
'''Phenomenal consciousness''' is the subjective qualitative character of experience, including the felt character of perception, emotion and sensation. In plain language, what it feels like to see colour, experience pain or be aware at all. This is the opening datum, not a conclusion derived from earlier beliefs: even questioning experience occurs within experience. | '''Phenomenal consciousness''' is the subjective qualitative character of experience, including the felt character of perception, emotion and sensation. In plain language, what it feels like to see colour, experience pain or be aware at all. This is the opening datum, not a conclusion derived from earlier beliefs: even questioning experience occurs within experience. | ||
== 2 Know yourself ''Gnōthi seauton'' == | == 2 Know yourself ''Gnōthi seauton'' == | ||