ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the notion of consciousness. Consciousness can be distinguished between: minimal consciousness, perceptual consciousness, and introspective consciousness. Dreaming is minimal consciousness, and so is the slow thinking that is now thought to occur even in the periods of dreamless sleep, for these is forms of mental activity. The mind can exist in the absence of even minimal consciousness. When one is awake one has perceptual consciousness. Subliminal perception is unconscious perception, and there is much evidence that other sorts of mental events and processes may occur, or mental states may obtain, in the absence of consciousness. The importance of proprioception and the other modes of bodily perception give an unmysterious model for introspection. Introspective awareness can be of a very 'reflex' sort. Introspective awareness presumably comes relatively late in the evolutionary development. Like perception, introspection is a matter or representation.
