ABSTRACT
The term "consciousness" has many overtones of meaning but involves three basic components. First an inward awareness or sensibility– what might be called "having internal perception." Second, an awareness of self, of one's own existence. Third, the idea of consciousness includes that of unity; that is to say it implies, in some rather vague sense, the fusion of the totality of the impressions, thoughts, and feelings which make up a person's conscious being into a single whole. Karl Popper states that his own position is that a brain-mind parallelism is almost bound to exist up to a point. The extraordinary elaboration and specialisation of brain structure, which modern researches have revealed, brings to mind at once the moral problem engendered by the dependence of people highest faculties on the integrity of brain structure. As to the relationship between mental and physical, C. D. Broad and Price H. H. have each made significant theoretical contributions.
