The notion of consciousness can rely on two different views of reality and language: the objectivist and constructivist views of reality that adopt, respectively, a representational and a pragmatic view of language. The philosophical projects of Descartes and Wittgenstein represent key examples of this debate. The present work will present the historical and conceptual roots that encouraged the emergence of two opposing concepts of consciousness. The theories of Crick, and Edelman Searle, scholars who attempted to objectively define consciousness will be examined. And criticisms put forward by Wittgenstein will be applied to these theories in an attempt to draw implications of this discussion to the field of Psychology.