CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-AWARENESS .2. CONSCIOUSNESS(4), CONSCIOUSNESS(5), AND CONSCIOUSNESS(6)

Published in two parts, the present article addresses whether and how self-awareness is necessarily involved in each of the six kinds of con sciousness that The Oxford English Dictionary identifies in its entry for the word consciousness. In this second part, I inquire into how se lf-awareness enters (a) consciousness(4), or the immediate (''inner'') awareness that we have of our mental-occurrence instances, (b) consci ousness(5), or the constitution of the totality of mental-occurrence i nstances which is the person's conscious being, and (c) consciousness( 6), or the highly adaptive general mode of the mind's functioning that we instantiate for most of the time that we are awake. Consciousness( 4) is a kind of occurrent self-awareness because, in being conscious(4 ), it is part of oneself that one has occurrent awareness of; although one need not also, at those times, be aware of oneself as such. Consc iousness(5) consists of those of one's mental-occurrence instances tha t one is now conscious(4) as one's own or one can remember being consc ious(4) Of and appropriating to oneself. Whether consciousness(6) must involve self-awareness is difficult to answer because the common conc ept of consciousness(6) does not imply an answer, and we have no clear view of what consciousness(6) uniquely consists in; that is, no accou nt of consciousness(6) as yet successfully distinguishes it from all o f the mind's other general operating modes.