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consciousness is dissimilar to awareness, in my limited understanding it is about feelings (experience) in itself and not about being aware of being aware about
by neatze 6y ago
consciousness is dissimilar to awareness, in my limited understanding it is about feelings (experience) in itself and not about being aware of being aware about feelings.
- jhickok 6y agoThat is highly controversial. The most popular theories of consciousness are that they are related to certain thoughts about thoughts, i.e. higher order awareness rather than first-order access. The qualia realist views that you are describing are likely more popular in philosophy classrooms than in CogSci or neuroscience programs.
- neatze 6y agoTwo Dimensions of Consciousness: Arousal and Awareness Consciousness is a multifaceted concept that has two dimensions: arousal, or wakefulness (i.e., level of consciousness), and awareness (i.e., content of consciousness). Source: http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/EncConsc_coma_2009.pdf http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/EncConsc_coma_2009.pdf