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What does it mean to be more conscious? It seems fairly binary to me.

• infinitifall 3y ago
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• InSteady 3y ago
  It's only possible that it is a binary if you get quite arbitrary and reductive about the concept of consciousness. Along the lines of how for decades we kept trying to define what separated humans from animals, and each line we drew would eventually melt away the more we actually zoomed in to animal behavior in all it's myriad expressions.
  • galaxyLogic 3y ago
    By the word "conscious" we usually mean how most people would think about it as their subjective experience of being conscious, as opposed to being unconscious. Personally I would say "being conscious" means that you are conscious of being conscious. Not just 'reacting" in some way to external stimuli. You (or your sub-consciousness) can be "aware of" external stimuli. But being conscious (in my view) should refer to the internal experience of being aware that you are aware of something.