Mind, Language and Society by John R Searle

Author:John R Searle [JOHN R. SEARLE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

Consciousness and Value

Any attempt to describe consciousness, any attempt to show how consciousness fits into the world at large, always seems to me inadequate. What we are leaving out is that consciousness is not just an important feature of reality. There is a sense in which it is the most important feature of reality because all other things have value, importance, merit, or worth only in relation to consciousness. If we value life, justice, beauty, survival, reproduction, it is only as conscious beings that we value them. In public discussions, I am frequently challenged to say why I think consciousness is important; any answer one can give is always pathetically inadequate because everything that is important is important in relation to consciousness. As far as coping with the world is concerned, the important feature of consciousness is that it is essentially connected to intentionality, and in the next chapter we turn to the structure of intentionality.

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