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Breaking through the consciousness stalemate | Philip Goff

Philosophy For Our Times

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What Is Consciousness?

Philosophy is about seeing how everything hangs together in the broader sense. What is consciousness? How do you define it? It's a little bit of an ambiguous word that's often defined in different ways. Often people use the word consciousness to mean something quite cognitively sophisticated, like a furnace of one's own existence. But the way it's generally used in philosophy and the way I use it is just to mean subjective experience, what it's like to be you.

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