User:Jtwsaddress42/Quotes/Edelman, Gerald M. 1992(a)b

Primary Consciousness & Higher-order Consciousness "'I have made a distinction, which I believe is a fundamental one, between primary consciousness and higher-order consciousness. Primary consciousness is the state of being aware of things in the world - of having mental images in the present. But it is not accompanied by any sense of a person with a past and future. ...higher-order conciousness involves the recognition by a thinking subject of his or her own acts or affections.  It exhibits direct awareness - the non-inferential or immediate awareness of mental episodes without the involvement of the sense organs or receptors.'

Gerald M. Edelman (1992)"