 The ideas-of-ideas reading of consciousness gets going because of passages like E4p8d, where Spinoza characterizes “cognition” of good and evil as “consciousness” of certain emotions (given that Spinozistic emotions or “affects” are already themselves constituted in part by “ideas” [E3def3]) and E3p9s, where Spinoza characterizes “desire” as “appetite together with consciousness of appetite” (given that “appetite” is already “related to the mind” [E3p9s]). In both cases the implication seems to be that consciousness is or involves higher order ideas.