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bart wrote:
> >> >How do you define it?
> >> The one can feel it as a kind of "self-existence".
> >
> > That's self-awareness, not consciousness.
> >
> Probably a question of terminology;
> here these terms were considered as synonyms
> (pure consciousness = self-awareness, nothing more, no structures)
> as in one of the definitions of consciousness on the Web:
> "an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your
> situation".
I think you can be conscious without being self-aware. I'm pretty sure that,
for example, chickens would be considered conscious, even tho they're
probably not self-aware.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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