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Speak, Memory: Dignāga, Consciousness, and Awareness. Nicholas Silins (Cornell)
5:30 pm
Speak, Memory: Dignāga, Consciousness, and Awareness. Nicholas Silins (Cornell)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
May 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
When someone is in a conscious state, must they be aware of that state? The Buddhist philosopher Dignāga offers a brilliant route to answering this question by leveraging the role awareness might play as a constraint on memory. I begin by clarifying his strategy and what conclusions it might be used to establish. Here I examine different candidate directions of explanation between consciousness and inner awareness. I interpret the metaphor of consciousness as a lamp that lights itself,[...]
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