Abstract

This paper argues that contemporary theories of consciousness fail to adequately recognize the importance of subjectivity and meaning. A comparative analysis is conducted examining the major tenets of Logopsychism—consciousness, subjectivity, and meaning—against a range of materialist and non-materialist models of consciousness, evaluated along the axes of ontology and epistemology. I demonstrate that the teleological function of consciousness is the ascription of meaning to lived experience. This teleology represents the overlooked third axis in evaluating theories of consciousness. Finally, I will show that logopsychism is uniquely situated as a supplemental theory of consciousness that reintroduces the importance of meaning across all ontological models.