Spool Five

Consciousness Indexed

Last but not least, here’s our daily prompt, optional and once more taken from our archives. Have you ever flipped to the index of a book and found it super interesting?…. Today, I challenge you to write your own index poem. You could start with found language from an actual index, or you could invent an index.

For this prompt, I picked up a nearby copy of Process and Reality by Whitehead, and took the idex entries for ‘Consciousness’.

Consciousness 

Consciousness as
basis for philosophy,
subjective form,
product of integration (synthesis)

Selectivity, importance
germ of consciousness

Not necessarilty involved in
actual occasions,
prehensions,
mentality,
decisions

Presupposes experience

Consciousness and
space and time,
satisfaction,
analytic and Lockian ideas
negation
error
realization of propositions
transmutation
width

Consciousness of
causal objectivification,
extensive relations

Primarily illuminates higher phases
arises in supplemental stage
involves contrast of theory and fact
involved in judgement

better than term mind

not in simple phyiscial feelings
requires adequate data
involves recollection
generally negligible

Fri Apr 28, 2023 - 163 Words