Descartes affords several notions of consciousness as he explains the characteristics of the diverse features of human thought from infancy to adulthood and from dreaming to attentive wakefulness. I will argue that Descartes provides the resources for a rich and coherent view of conscious mentality from rudimentary consciousness through reflexive consciousness to consciousness achieved by deliberate, attentive reflection. I shall begin by making two general yet important remarks concerning the conceptual starting points of my investigation.
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Lähteenmäki, V. (2007). Orders of Consciousness and Forms of Reflexivity in Descartes. In: Heinämaa, S., Lähteenmäki, V., Remes, P. (eds) Consciousness. Studies In The History Of Philosophy Of Mind, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6082-3_8
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