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  2. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Dictionary defines consciousness as " the state of understanding and realizing something. " [21] The Oxford Living Dictionary defines consciousness as " The state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings. ", " A person's awareness or perception of something. " and " The fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the ...

  3. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy and sentience. In philosophy, different authors draw different distinctions between consciousness and sentience. According to Antonio Damasio, sentience is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which otherwise commonly and collectively describes sentience plus further features of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and ...

  4. Conscience - Wikipedia

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    Kröller-Müller Museum. The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix). A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive ...

  5. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Conscious level is Seth's measurement of how conscious a being is. He defines it as a multilayered increase or decrease of brain activity, ranging between brain death, being comatose, being awake, and non-ordinary mental states caused by psychedelics. Conscious content is what a being is conscious of, be it their senses, emotions, thoughts, or ...

  6. Consciousness and the Brain - Wikipedia

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    Book outline Introduction: The Stuff of Thought Dehaene reviews historical intuitions that consciousness must be separate from matter. He explains how consciousness was not even mentioned in neuroscientific circles until the late 1980s, when a revolution in consciousness research began. Dehaene believes that "access consciousness" (being aware of and able to report on information) is the right ...

  7. Self-consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. Historically, "self-consciousness" was synonymous with "self-awareness", referring to a state of awareness that one exists and that one has consciousness. [1] While "self-conscious" and "self-aware" are still ...

  8. Disorders of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    In a minimally conscious state, the patient has intermittent periods of awareness and wakefulness. The criteria for minimally conscious state, that patients are not in a vegetative state but are not able to communicate consistently. This means, that patients have to show limited but reproducible signs of awareness of themself or their environment.

  9. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Freud believed that the mind is responsible for both conscious and unconscious decisions that it makes on the basis of psychological drives. The id, ego, and super-ego are three aspects of the mind Freud believed to comprise a person's personality. Freud believed people are "simply actors in the drama of [their] own minds, pushed by desire ...