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Intentionality of consciousness?
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The 'aboutness' of the mind — every experience is OF or ABOUT something beyond itself.
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Does 'intentionality' mean 'on purpose'?
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No — it means aboutness: the mind is always directed at something, whether you plan it or not.
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What is phenomenology?
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The careful study of experience exactly as it is lived, first-person — a world of meaning, not brain-states.
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Phenomenology's key claim?
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We live in a world (a face, a room, a task), not inside a skull full of nerve signals.
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Advaita Vedanta on consciousness?
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Behind every experience is a pure awareness — the witness — that observes all thoughts and feelings.
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Witness-consciousness (sākṣī)?
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Pure awareness that watches all your thoughts and feelings without being any of them.
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The arrow image of consciousness?
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Consciousness is like an arrow — it always points at something. Advaita turns it round to the awareness that holds the arrow.
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Why pair phenomenology with Advaita?
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One studies what consciousness is OF (looks out); the other points to the awareness it appears IN (looks in) — Western + non-Western range.
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