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Consciousness

Consciousness is being aware of something internal to one's self, or of states or objects in one's external environment. It has been the topic of extensive explanations, analyses, and debate among philosophers, scientists, and theologians for millennia. There is no consensus on what exactly needs to be studied, or whether consciousness can be considered…

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related to Further reading · 60
Consciousness → An, Being, Being You, Beyond Neural Correlates, Brain, Brain Codes Our Thoughts, Cambridge University Press, Can't Be Computed, CBO9780511816789, Columbia University Press, Deciphering How, Dehaene, Dordrecht, Dreaming, Frankish, Harley, How Attention Engenders Experience, Irvine, ISBN, Kirkeby-Hinrup
related to In artificial intelligence · 27
Consciousness → Ada Lovelace, AI, Alan Turing, Analytical Engine, Can, Charles Babbage, Computing Machinery, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, Douglas Hofstadter, For, Golem, Greek, He, However, In, Intelligence, Jewish, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Lovelace
related to Etymology · 25
Consciousness → Although René Descartes, Amsterdam, Archbishop Ussher, Cicero, Conscious, English, For, Groves, Harrison, In Search, It, John Milton, Latin, Leviathan, One, Regulæ, Roman, The, The Latin, There
related to Identity · 22
Consciousness → Abrahamic, An, Another, Benj Hellie's, Closed, Daniel Kolak, Derek Parfit, However, If, In, In Buddhist, Kolak, Nowhere, Persons, Reasons, René Descartes, The, The View, This, Thomas Nagel
related to Scientific study · 22
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related to In animals · 17
Consciousness → Also, Animal Minds, Bat, Be, Descartes, Donald Griffin's, Douglas Hofstadter, He, It, Like, Most, Other, Philosophers, Several, The, Thomas Nagel, What Is
related to In children · 17
Consciousness → Cartesian, Citing, Fivush, Foulkes, In, It, Julian Jaynes, Katherine Nelson, Lockean, Lycan, Nelson, Of, Psychologist, Robyn Fivush, The, They, William Foulkes
related to Problem of other minds · 16
Consciousness → Colin Allen, Daniel Dennett, For, Given, Greg Littmann, Illinois, Many, More, Pittsburgh, Related, Some, The, The Unimagined Preposterousness, There, University, Zombies
related to Biological function and evolution · 15
Consciousness → Animals, Are We Automata, Automata, History, Hypothesis, Its Brain, Karl Popper, On, Some, The, The Self, Thomas Henry Huxley, To, While, William James
related to Disorders · 13
Consciousness → An, Anosognosia, Anton, Babinski, Differential, Finally, Greek-derived, Medical, Patients, The, This, When, While

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Consciousnessis afascinating but elusive phenomenon0.90text
Consciousnessis aunitary concept that is understood by the majority of people despite the difficulty philosophers have had defining it0.90text
Consciousnessis aphenomenon whereby information in our minds is accessible for verbal report0.90text
Consciousnessis asubjectively experienced0.90text
Consciousnessis acapacity to generate desires and decisions about perceived or imagined realities by distinguishing self from non-self through the use of perception0.90text
Consciousnessis aby-product of evolution0.90text
Consciousnessis acausally inert effect of neural activity0.90text
Consciousnessis aresult of compression0.90text
Ciceroinstance offirst appears in Roman juridical texts by writers0.80text
perceptioninstance offrom the unconscious processes of cognition0.80text
reactive awarenessinstance offrom the unconscious processes of cognition0.80text
attentioninstance offrom the unconscious processes of cognition0.80text

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