PRE-REFLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE EXPERIENCE/EXPERIENCER IDENTITY THESIS

Abstract

One of the critiques to the non-egological theories of consciousness is that they would deny the subject of experience at the level of phenomenal consciousness. But clearly this cannot be. Phenomenal consciousness is always for a subject of experience. That's exactly what this one's about. Therefore, the idea of this work is that it is possible to stipulate that consciousness has a non-egological structure without denying the existence of the subject of experience. We must not confuse the Ego with the subject of experience. This is why we will revise the experience/experiencer identity thesis. According to which, and from self-representational elements, experience takes itself as the subject of experience. Thus, experience representing itself would be its own subject of experience. The experience representing itself would be identical to its own subject of experience.