Conscious Experience

Various different connotation of consciousness exist, cf. the page on consciousness. This page provides a general definition of conscious experience and seeks to describe the relation to other connotation of consciousness. The general definition is inspired by the phenomenological reading of phenomenal consciousness.

Idea for Definition v1

A promising choice is to use somewhat phenomenological terminology in defining the term conscious experience, referring to the totality of how experience 'reveals itself' to an experiencing subject, how the experiencing subject finds itself experiencing, or how the "the world" appears to it.

One could opt for a more approachable terminology and define the term conscious experience to denote totality of impressions, feelings, thoughts, perceptions, etc. which an experiencing subject lives through at a particular instant of time.

Relation to other definitions/descriptions of the phenomenon

The idea would be to come up with a definition above that is (most) general and allows to reduce to other notions. E.g.: - The connotation of perceiving a stimulus consciously (or not) simply concerns one specific aspect, or element, of conscious experience as defined above.

Generally, the hope for a more systematic account would be to describe how other connotations result from this general definition in terms of specifications. E.g., one could consider properties, elements, parts, features of conscious experience in order to arrive at qualia of different sorts... (?)