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Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily perceptual, even the consciousness of ourselves.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not what defines my existence. My existence does not come from my physical, psychical, and social environment, rather it goes toward them and sustains them.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠reducible to neither empiricism nor intellectualism. Empiricism cannot see that we need to know what we are looking for (otherwise we would not be looking for it) and intellectualism fails to see that we need to be ignorant of what we are looking for (or equally again we should not be searching).

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠being neither here nor there, neither Peter nor Paul. When one is conscious on is in no way distinguishable from an 'other' consciousness, since we are all immediate presences to the world, and since the world is, by definition, unique, being the system of truths.

Consciousness (n.) gives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself over completely to the object I contemplate. As I contemplate the blue of the sky, I am not set over against the sky as an a-cosmic subject. I abandon myself to it, plunge into this mystery, it 'thinks itself within me,' I am the sky itself as it is drawn together and unified, and as it begins to exist for itself... my consciousness is saturated with this limitless blue.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the state wherein I am neither here nor there, neither peter nor paul, I am in no way distinguishable from an 'other' consciousness and am in fact nothing other than immediate presence to the world.

Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unable to be defined formally in terms of self-knowledge or representation, then, but is essentially engaged in the structures and actions of the human world and encompasses all of the diverse intentional orientations of human life.