The Current Philosophy of Consciousness Landscape: Where Does LDS Thought Fit? Steven L. Peck 65 so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens —William Carlos Williams L ooking out of my window across my lawn, I see a red toy wheelbarrow tipped over, abandoned beside the sidewalk. Its redness is something I ex- perience distinctly. Undeniably, I might be deceived, and there is no red wheelbarrow there. Maybe someone painted one on the window and I am confused, or maybe I am lying mad in a hospital bed and dreaming. Per- haps it is a hallucination. It could even be that I am the victim of a mania- STEVEN L. PECK is an evolutionary ecologist and assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at Brigham Young University. He has de- grees from North Carolina State University (Ph.D., biomathematics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.S., environmental biostatistics), and Brigham Young Universit y (B.S., statistics). His interest in consciousness theory, on which he teaches an honors class, stems from his work in complex systems evo- lution. He wishes to thank Terry Ball, Craig Ostler, Geoff Gerstner, David Grandy, Steven Hawks, Ramona Hopkins, Brent Top, John W. Welch, and an anonymous reviewer for their comments and inspiration.