Essential features or Properties of the Mind – a thread:

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1. Consciousness
- capacity for awareness of smth
- essential mark of intelligence

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Indicators of Consciousness
a. Perceptions
- as sense experience
- quasi-perception (dream, imagination)

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Indicators of Consciousness cont.
b. Emotion
c. Sensation
d. Cognition (thinking, believing, understanding)
e. Conations (intending, wanting)

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Essential Features/Properties of the Mind cont.

2. Subjective Quality (Quale/qualia)
- particular way of becoming conscious
- particular way of experiencing

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3. Intentionality
- property of mental state to have contents

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- intentionality of mental states: regarded as smth inherent or original for it is not up to us (smth just to recognize)

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4. Ontological Subjectivity
- exist in so far as the indiv person experience or is conscious of them

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- exist because people have them

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5. Private
- directly knowable to the person who has it or has experienced it

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