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We have determined that ‘I’ am a particular species of consciousness—the motivation to focus, intensify and explicate felt meanings. We have also seen that I am not equivalent with all my states of consciousness, but only with those constitutive of the creative component of cognition, which is the source of this motivational feeling and consequently the source of the direction of the stream of consciousness in terms of the selective attention process. The creative component is the preconscious, categorially intentional (but not presentatively intentional) and value-positing dimension of consciousness; it determines in part what I see by motivating where I look at each instant; it is thus the transcendental ego.
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Ellis, R.D. (1986). The Directed Attention Progression. In: An Ontology of Consciousness. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0715-2_6
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