I think it might have been kinda the other way around. We wanted to systematize (put on a firm, principled grounding) a bunch of related stuff like care-based ethics, individuality, identity (and the void left by the abandonment of the concept of “soul”), etc, and for that purpose, we coined the concept of (phenomenal) consciousness.
I think it might have been kinda the other way around. We wanted to systematize (put on a firm, principled grounding) a bunch of related stuff like care-based ethics, individuality, identity (and the void left by the abandonment of the concept of “soul”), etc, and for that purpose, we coined the concept of (phenomenal) consciousness.