Consciousness has general subjective feel {subjectivity} {experiencer} {subject, consciousness}, associated with sensations. Consciousness seems to center on self. Subjects seem to stay the same. Subjects seem continuous and indivisible into units. Subjects seem insubstantial and immaterial, with neither mass nor energy. Subjects seem not to extend in space. Subjects seem not to extend in time. Subjects seem to have personality. Subjects seem to be just one observer, with only one viewpoint.
processing
Subjects have beliefs and thoughts. Subjects have external and internal three-dimensional sensory field. Subjects can be simultaneously conscious of more than one object or event, because one visual fixation can identify multiple objects.
Subjects seem to observe sense qualities in space. Observers seem to be behind sensory apparatus, looking outward at consciousness contents. Observers seem to be at experience center and in scene. Subjects take viewpoints on objects. People are aware they can take different viewpoints and can imagine such viewpoints. Viewpoints and objects are in scenes.
Otherness, object, and representation {alterity} are opposite of ipseity.
I-ness, selfhood, minimal subjective sense, primitive self, minimal self, pre-reflective self, and background consciousness {ipseity} are opposite of alterity.
People seem to have personal continuous experience {stream of consciousness}|. Subjective selves think, know, and are thoughts that continue into next thoughts. Stream of consciousness includes near past and near future. Stream of consciousness is continuous. Scene changes every 100 to 150 milliseconds. Like waves transitioning from one wavelength to another wavelength, stream of consciousness has no transition between states. Affect, mood, and aesthetic, dramatic, and religious memories affect stream of consciousness.
Perhaps, subjects have no stream of consciousness, only current-content observations.
unity
Self unifies faculties that act, attend, decide, have conscience, have goals, judge, reason, remember, select, sense, and will [Hodgson, 1870] [James, 1890]. Perhaps, stream of consciousness is consciousness, because "...thought itself is the thinker..." [James, 1890].
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