ABSTRACT
Perhaps, there is no “problem of consciousness.” As I understand the phrase, it implies a supposed priority of refl ective awareness of our inner self together with a bird’s-eye view of our states of consciousness. That is to say, we examine our consciousness pretending that we can ignore that the self refl ecting is the same consciousness that we refl ect upon. Sartre would thus distinguish the pre-refl ective from the refl ective consciousness. The pre-refl ective consciousness is simply consciousness as it is acting in the world, and as such it is absorbed in revealing an object as existing in the world. I am typing this sentence and to the extent that I am absorbed in doing just that there is no problem in the doing or the acting, unless something goes wrong with the computer or I change my intention of writing. To attempt to see a problem at this level is to fracture the bond of consciousness with the world and to implicitly accept the human reality as a spirit merely visiting Earth.
