{"product_id":"actual-consciousness-9780198776918","title":"Actual Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ted Honderich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mind \u0026amp; Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is it for you to be conscious? There is no agreement whatever in philosophy or science: it has remained a hard problem, a mystery. Is this partly or mainly owed to the existing theories not even having the same subject, not answering the same question? In \u003cem\u003eActual Consciousness\u003c\/em\u003e, Ted Honderich sets out to supersede dualisms, objective physicalisms, abstract functionalism, general externalisms, and other positions in the debate. He argues that the theory of Actualism, right or wrong, is unprecedented, in nine ways. (1) It begins from gathered \u003cem\u003edata\u003c\/em\u003e and proceeds to an adequate initial clarification of consciousness in the primary ordinary sense. This consciousness is summed up as \u003cem\u003esomething's being actual\u003c\/em\u003e. (2) Like basic science, Actualism proceeds from this metaphorical or figurative beginning to what is wholly literal and explicit--constructed answers to the questions of \u003cem\u003ewhat is actual\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ewhat it is for it to be actual\u003c\/em\u003e. (3) In so doing, the theory respects the differences of\u003cbr\u003econsciousness within perception, consciousness that is thinking in a generic sense, and consciousness that is generic wanting. (4) \u003cem\u003eWhat\u003c\/em\u003e is actual with your perceptual consciousness is \u003cem\u003ea subjective physical world\u003c\/em\u003e out there, very likely \u003cem\u003ea room\u003c\/em\u003e, differently real from the \u003cem\u003eobjective physical world\u003c\/em\u003e, that other division of \u003cem\u003ethe physical world\u003c\/em\u003e. (5) What it is for the myriad subjective physical worlds to be actual is for them to be subjectively physical, which is exhaustively characterized. (6) What is actual with cognitive and affective consciousness is \u003cem\u003eaffirmed or valued representations\u003c\/em\u003e. The representations being actual, which is essential to their nature, is their being differently subjectively physical from the subjective physical worlds. (7) Actualism, naturally enough when you think of it, but unlike any other existing general theory of consciousness, is thus externalist with perceptual consciousness but internalist with respect to cognitive and affective consciousness. (8) It satisfies\u003cbr\u003erigorous criteria got from examination of the failures of the existing theories. In particular, it explains the role of subjectivity in thinking about consciousness, including a special subjectivity that is individuality. (9) Philosophers and scientists have regularly said that thinking about consciousness requires just giving up the old stuff and starting again. Actualism does this. Science is served by this main line philosophy, which is concentration on the logic of ordinary intelligence--clarity, consistency and validity, completeness, generality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46290012864663,"sku":"9780198776918","price":3474.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198776918.webp?v=1769303845","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/actual-consciousness-9780198776918","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}