Consciousness is the Sine Qua Non of Logic
Sine qua non is a lovely Latin phrase meaning “without which nothing”. Substitute what you wish to focus on for “which” and you have a shortcut to sanity in the thicket of discussions about brains, thinking, psychology and such.
C. S. Peirce performed the heavy lifting needed to arrive at lucidity regarding thought and logic.
The paragraph below more or less gets there.
Consciously controlled thought is what may lead you to logic.
This is the sense Triadic Philosophy has about the matter. Getting conscious is not rocket science. Stop. See what comes up. That’s reality. Consciousness is what enables you to consider it.
Consciousness is your affirmation that you have a mind that possesses freedom, will and executive power.
This is not a “natural thing” like a trip to the john or the fridge. It’s not an affectionate touch.
It is an individual thinking things.
Doesn’t that deny the place of the heart in the matter of arriving at conclusions?
Hardly.
It is is a statement to yourself that you have a higher power than the unalloyed heart.
Your power is tied to ontological derivatives: will and freedom.
When will and freedom and consciousness are in the house, we have a dominant trio. It is a power we direct as we choose.
We inch toward the idea of a higher self, a capacity within us for spiritual growth that is real and even experimental.
It centers on the acknowledgement of consciousness as real, present when called upon. This includes the power to reason, to approach the good.
We are neither subjective nor objective. To the extent that freedom and will lead us to values that are good, we are universal beings.
Peirce: CP 2.63 Cross-Ref:††
63. Surely logic must begin with a critic of knowledge. That cannot be denied; for what prudent man would embark on any enterprise without first considering whether and how it could possibly succeed? Nor can it be denied that the theory of cognition is today one of the pearls of scientific psychology. But I contend that that propedeutic that is wanted for logic has no more to do with the psychological theory of cognition than logic itself is concerned with the psychical process of thinking. Even less were there room for less; since the psychological theory substantially ends where consciously controlled thought begins, with which alone logic has even an indirect connection.