People can have different awake-consciousness levels {alertness}|. Alertness can be high, normal, or low. Physiological factors, such as hormones, stimulation level, novelty, nutrient levels, sleepiness, diseases, and moods, set alertness level. All mammals have alertness levels.
Experience seems to happen immediately or in one step {immediacy}. Activity, reasoning, or will does not affect phenomenal-experience generation [Botero, 1999]. People cannot be aware of brain processing. Sensations are after processing. Sensations appear and do not change. Processing does not continue, and quality does not become more refined. (Quality can change with new information.) Perhaps, quality reaches optimum, then equilibrium holds. Perhaps, brain modifies processing to trick consciousness.
Activity, reasoning, or will cannot correct or improve sensations {incorrigibility}| [Seager, 1999]. People cannot be aware of brain processing. Sensations are after processing. Sensations appear and do not change. Processing does not continue, and quality does not become more refined. (Quality can change with new information.) Sensations can misidentify. Sensations can misremember.
Sensations are complex and can have no description except their own existence {ineffability}|. Nothing can substitute for experience. Knowledge about experience requires having the experience [Harman, 1990]. However, language can describe sense-quality properties.
Subjects are integrated sets of sensations, which depend only on internal processes. Experience is a property, state, process, or essence of subjects {intrinsicness}. Experience depends on subject structures and functions. Alternatively, subject can have experiences [Seager, 1999]. Experience does not need screen or external aid. Experience does not depend on external things or events.
Perhaps, consciousness requires ineffability, intrinsicness, immediacy, and privateness {3I-P} {minimal properties of consciousness}.
Object properties seem to belong to object and thus associate {object unity}. For example, object can be red and spherical. Subject perceives red spherical object, not red object and spherical object with a relation. There is only one object, not two objects. Phenomena link in objects [Seager, 1999].
All experiences, including thoughts, moods, and emotions, at one time associate {phenomenal unity}. For example, sight and sound perceived at nearby locations associate. Brain processing adds links that unify them [Seager, 1999].
Sensations are only available to subject, and direct observation from outside cannot measure them {privateness}. No one else can have the same experience [Seager, 1999].
Only subjects, with first-person viewpoints, can have sensations {privileged access} [Alston, 1971] [Gertler, 2003]. Comparing reactions to experiences and subjective-knowledge reports can result in objective knowledge.
Sensations depend on whole scene or image and fill all of space and time {space-filling}, leaving no gaps or overlaps.
Consciousness happens in people for that person only {subjective character}. Experience is phenomenon to subject, and no other subject can have that experience [Davidson, 2001] [Georgalis, 2005] [Kriegel, 2005] [Nagel, 1979] [Shoemaker, 1996] [Tye, 1986].
People do not perceive experience qualities but only object properties and qualities {transparency, consciousness}. Experiences do not themselves have knowable phenomena or properties [Kind, 2003] [Loar, 2002]. After experiencing object properties, people are only aware that they are having experiences of phenomenal character. Subject can perceive no intermediate to experiences, which are immediately available. Hallucinations are only about object properties.
Hearing does not mix tones {analytic sense}. Analytic senses analyze signals from source into independent elements. Touch, smell, and taste are both synthetic and analytic.
Vision mixes colors {synthetic sense}. Synthetic senses mix signals from source to synthesize resultant sensation. Touch, smell, and taste are both synthetic and analytic.
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