ABSTRACT
As noted in Chapter 1, when defining the meaning of a term, it is useful, if possible, to begin with an ostensive definition – to ‘point to’ or ‘pick out’ the phenomena to which the term refers and, by implication, what is excluded. Normally we point to some thing that we observe or experience. The term ‘consciousness’ however refers to experience itself. Rather than being exemplified by a particular thing that we observe or experience, it is exemplified by all the things that we observe or experience.
