ABSTRACT
Each and every branch of science needs its own vocabulary, a set of systematically organized, interconnected concepts that describe the flora and fauna of the relevant part of reality. In this chapter, we will try to figure out how the modern science of consciousness should describe its objects of study and why it has been so difficult to come up with a clear understanding of what “consciousness” refers to in the first place. If consciousness is not the same thing as behaviour or cognition or information processing, then the traditional concepts found in psychology and cognitive science are not sufficient for the science of consciousness. A new vocabulary for the science of consciousness is urgently required.
