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Problem of definition
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Philosophy of mind
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Scientific study
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Medical aspects
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Overview
- Awareness
- Scientific concept
- Mind
- Introspection
- Volition
- Cognition
- Metacognition
- Self-awareness
- Coma
- Soul
- "stream" of contents Stream of consciousness (psychology)
- Mental state
- Mental event
- Gordon Gallup Gordon G. Gallup
- Mirror test
- Great apes Hominidae
- Bottlenose dolphins Bottlenose dolphin
- Orcas Orca
- Pigeons Columbidae
- European magpies Eurasian magpie
- Elephants
- Pigs Pig
- Medial temporal lobe
- Transcranial direct current stimulation Transcranial direct-current stimulation
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Parietal cortex Parietal lobe
- Global workspace theory
- Cognitive architecture
- Bernard Baars
- Stanislas Dehaene
Etymology
- English language
- Latin
- Thomas Hobbes
- Leviathan Leviathan (Hobbes book)
- Archbishop Ussher
- Cicero
- René Descartes
- Gloss Gloss (annotation)
- John Locke
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- British philosophy
- Samuel Johnson
- Dictionary A Dictionary of the English Language
- Diderot
- D'Alembert
- Encyclopédie
Problem of definition
- Aristotle
- Phenomenon
- Concept
- Perception
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary
- Feelings
- Cambridge English Dictionary
- Oxford Living Dictionary Lexico
- Jargon
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Geology
- Metaphor
- Freudian therapy Freudian psychology
- Johann Friedrich Herbart
- John Stuart Mill
- Edward B. Titchener
- States of matter
- William James
- Experiment
- Stuart Sutherland
- Self-consciousness
- Thomas Nagel
- Subjective character of experience
- Subjectivity
- Experience
- Peter Hacker
- Life
- Max Velmans
- Neuroscientists Neuroscientist
- Conscious phenomenology Phenomenology (psychology)
Philosophy of mind
- Physicalism
- Kant Immanuel Kant
- Gilbert Ryle
- Dualism Mind–body dualism
- Ned Block
- Phenomenal
- Qualia
- Remember Memory
- Noncircular Circular definition
- Daniel Dennett
- William Lycan
- Philosophical zombies Philosophical zombie
- Sam Harris
- Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi (book)
- Peng 鵬 Peng (mythology)
- Res cogitans Mental substance
- Res extensa
- Pineal gland
- Monist Monism
- Substance dualism
- Property dualism
- Idealism
- Neutral monism
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
- Man a Machine
- Gerald Edelman
- Antonio Damasio António Damásio
- Computer scientists Computer scientist
- Artificial intelligence
- Simulate or embody consciousness Artificial consciousness
Scientific study
- George Mandler
- Donald Michie
- Consciousness and Cognition
- Psyche Psyche (consciousness journal)
- Journal of Consciousness Studies
- Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
- Society for Consciousness Studies
- Priming Priming (psychology)
- Subliminal stimuli
- Case studies
- Operational definition
- Necker cube
- Response priming
- Heterophenomenology
- Turing test
- Scientific literature
- Neuroscience of free will
- EEG
- FMRI
- Oscillations in brain activity Neural oscillations
- Binding problem
- Rodolfo Llinás
- Recurrent thalamo-cortical resonance
- Gamma Gamma wave
- Primary visual cortex (V1) Primary visual cortex
- Prefrontal cortex
- Executive functions
- Nikos Logothetis
- Temporal lobe
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Medical aspects
- Neurologists Neurology
- Anesthesiologists Anesthesia
- General anesthesia
- Medical coma Induced coma
- Bioethicists Bioethics
- Karen Ann Quinlan case
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Neurological examination
- Pediatric Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale
- Intensive care unit
- FOUR score
- Disorders of consciousness
- Minimally conscious state
- Persistent vegetative state
- Locked-in syndrome
- Differential diagnosis
- Biomedical research
- Brain death
- Dementia
- Grand mal Tonic–clonic seizure
- Petit mal seizures Absence seizure
- Anosognosia
- Stroke
- Anton–Babinski syndrome
Outside human adults
- Experimental philosophy
- Cartesian theater
- Katherine Nelson
- Robyn Fivush
- Theory of mind
- What Is it Like to Be a Bat?
- Douglas Hofstadter
- University of Cambridge
- Stephen Hawking
- Pygmalion Pygmalion (mythology)
- Golem
- Homunculus
- Ada Lovelace
- Analytical Engine
- Charles Babbage
- Alan Turing
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence
- Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Chinese room
- John Searle John Searle (American philosopher)
- Robotic Robotics
- Grounding Symbol grounding
- Categorize
- Embodied cognition
- Situated cognition
- Nick Bostrom
- Large language models Large language model
- Hallucinated Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
Spiritual approaches
- Upanishads
- Richard Maurice Bucke
- Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind Cosmic Consciousness
- Order Natural order (philosophy)
- Ken Wilber
- Prem Saran Satsangi
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Nodes339
Edges338
Triples452
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.0059
Components1
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Consciousness
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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
Consciousness → Association, Broadly, Cognition, Consciousness Research, Consciousness Studies, Donald Michie, For, From Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers, George Mandler, Human Consciousness, In, Journal, Michie, Modern, Psyche, Religion Forum, Scientific Study, Society, Starting
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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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Consciousness | is a | fascinating but elusive phenomenon | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | unitary concept that is understood by the majority of people despite the difficulty philosophers have had defining it | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | phenomenon whereby information in our minds is accessible for verbal report | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | subjectively experienced | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | capacity to generate desires and decisions about perceived or imagined realities by distinguishing self from non-self through the use of perception | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | by-product of evolution | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | causally inert effect of neural activity | 0.90 | text |
| Consciousness | is a | result of compression | 0.90 | text |
| Cicero | instance of | first appears in Roman juridical texts by writers | 0.80 | text |
| perception | instance of | from the unconscious processes of cognition | 0.80 | text |
| reactive awareness | instance of | from the unconscious processes of cognition | 0.80 | text |
| attention | instance of | from the unconscious processes of cognition | 0.80 | text |
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