====================================================================== Title: Consciousness Indexed Date: 2023-04-28 Link: https://spool-five.com/poetry/2023_apr28_consciousness/ Word Count: 165 ====================================================================== > 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