Consciousness is sometimes viewed as a particular parametric factor in the analogy of blood pressure or electric charge. The paper argues that this is an erroneous conception because consciousness involves a varied assortment of different phenomena that have no single unified commonality. And so even as ‘abnormal psychology’ has to be a disjointed assembly of diverse specialties so will ‘consciousness studies’ have to be.
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Author Name: Nicholas Rescher
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Keywords: alteration, brain activity, consciousness, mental capacities, neuroscience
ISSN: 1584-174X
EISSN: 2392-6260
EOI/DOI: 10.5840/symposion2015211
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