What does it mean to be conscious?

It’s relatively easy to reflect on whether you yourself are conscious. How can you define it though? And what happens when your conscious state changes? Weird things happen and we can learn more about the subjective nature of consciousness by looking within ourselves and paying attention to what it is like to be us when things are not as they normally are.

Required Reading

None! We’ll be workshopping some academic materials in-class on Thursday!