What is the main question or set of concerns that inspires you to attend this conference?<\/p>\n
The centre of, at least, some inquiries into consciousness is a human being, a natural organism with the capacity to feel, to perceive, and to reflect. These capacities are essential but they are nothing without the organism’s world, its umwelt. It is inconceivable that a third-person science could provide a complete picture of this complex system with its internal phenomenal states, its dynamic intersubjectivity, its capacity for social living and the creation of cultures (and magnificent poetry and music).<\/p>\n
So, what inspires me to attend, the opportunity to talk to others interested in these issues but coming at them from different perspectives.<\/p>\n
How does your current research reflect this concern?<\/p>\n
I’m interested in the connections between agents, selves, and persons and, more particularly, with the role of pre-reflective consciousness and the possibility of its being intentional yet sometimes phenomenologically hidden. There’s so much that current philosophy disregards because it upsets good theories, and those are the places I like to go.<\/p>\n
How are the questions you have described personally significant for you?<\/p>\n
They’re fun and exciting and, really I should be packing my bag so I don’t miss my plane.
\nBye for now.<\/p>\n
Susan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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