ABSTRACT
Consciousness is the most discussed issue by philosophers interested in the mind. Philosophers talk about creature consciousness, by which they mean that humans and some animals are conscious. But philosophers go on to talk about state consciousness, that is, they claim that some mental states are conscious and other mental states are not. Philosophers draw a distinction between creature consciousness and state consciousness. The concept of the unconscious mind has been around since introduced in the eighteenth century by the German philosopher, Friedrich Schelling, and was extensively developed by Sigmund Freud. The chapter shows that the R-mind is limited to first-order consciousness. It discusses a number of circumstances in which we can identify when human behaviour is controlled R-consciously and when it is L-conscious. Both of these forms of creature consciousness (L- and R-consciousness) can, however, exist when there is no current behaviour to demonstrate their presence.
