“I=Awareness,” by Arthur Deikman
Written on August 28, 2007
One of the full text articles from the Journal of Consciousness Studies, “I=Awareness” is also available from the author’s web site.
…when we use introspection to search for the origin of our subjectivity, we find that the search for ‘I’ leaves the customary aspects of personhood behind and takes us closer and closer to awareness, per se. If this process of introspective observation is carried to its conclusion, even the background sense of core subjective self disappears into awareness. Thus, if we proceed phenomenologically, we find that the ‘I’ is identical to awareness: ‘I’ = awareness.
Deikman’s books include The Observing Self
Filed in: consciousness,self.
