Will, Consciousness, Self-Consciousness

On the model of Experience being proposed here, the immediate object of Consciousness is always Will, i. e. what one has been doing. Hence, Consciousness is always, properly, Self-Consciousness, in terms of which standard concepts of 'consciousness' and of 'self-consciousness' often express greater fidelity to dogmatic commitments than to the features of Experience itself. 'Consciousness' is frequently conceived as a relation between mind and an external object, while 'self-consciousness' as relation of mind to itself, each thus abstracting from corporeality, thereby supporting, wittingly or otherwise, doctrines that assert the independent reality of an incorporeal realm of existence. In contrast, the object of Self-Consciousness, as conceived here, is always, irreducibly, one's walking, one's looking at, one's sitting, etc., all modes of Will, all entailing a physiological dimension.