Kevin is no fan of all the talk of “consciousness” these days in the philosophy of mind, including my own. And for one simple reason: he understands the term in a very different sense than I do; he defines it in the sense of the social self or ego. The ego is “conditioned consciousness”: “what we all experience in the daily world if we are not in the grip of something mystical.”32 Such a level of the human is simply not real. It is socially and psychologically constructed. It is an illusion.
