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Those who, like Husserl, talk about consciousness usually mean not consciousness but its contents. Consciousness may be here defined as the qualitative correlate of controlled perception. Consciousness itself is a quality; it is ultimately simple and it is unanalyzable. That which has no parts cannot be analyzed into them.
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Feibleman, J.K. (1976). The Assimilation of Knowledge. In: Adaptive Knowing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1032-0_3
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