Consciousness as Singularity

Resumo

The present paper assesses the definition and categorization of consciousness from the perspective of conscientiology. It begins with a succinct presentation of the panorama of the main explanatory theories about consciousness, more current today, grouping them in three ways: cataphatic, apophatic, and analogical. Next, the various definitions of consciousness within the scope of conscientiology are brought together, so that it can be understood whether a definition is offered that effectively accounts for what consciousness is, and in which of the ways these definitions fit. Once it is verified that the definitions proposed by conscientiology permeate the most varied routes and do not offer a broadly satisfactory definition, we run through the most fundamental existent categories in order to verify whether there is an adequate framework. Upon verifying that consciousness, in the conscientiological perspective, does not fit into either physical or logical/psychological objects, the possibility arises that consciousness can be explained on the basis of the category of singularities.