i continue with the following excerpt:
“[egnor defines] consciousness in a simple way: it is the means by which we have experience. by ‘experience’ i mean the spectrum of the mental powers we use - moving, perceiving, remembering, emoting, imagining, understanding, judging, willing, etc. by ‘means’ i mean that consciousness is the instrument that enables experience. but it is not something that can be known itself.”
(I parenthetically add that the experience also involves an awareness, a cognitive function of the immaterial mind/soul.)
egnor continues:
“. . . consciousness is a power of our soul that is always invisible to us, because it is the instrument, not the object, or our knowledge. it is the means by which we experience, not what we experience. thus we can’t ‘find’ it in the brain.”