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> We know what consciousness is. It's our self-awareness Not really. There are plenty of disorders that destroy a person’s self-awareness but appear to leave a
by ethanbond 3y ago
> We know what consciousness is. It's our self-awareness
Not really. There are plenty of disorders that destroy a person’s self-awareness but appear to leave a fully conscious person there anyway.
- JohnAaronNelson 3y agoThen take off the “self” part. How about conscious is awareness? The more aware you are, the more conscious you are?
- bckr 3y agoIs 1000 bees more or less aware than 10 buffalo?
- mannykannot 3y agoI believe you are right to say that consciousness is generally regarded as more than self-awareness, but unless you want to regard self-awareness as specifically not a form of consciousness, then the consciousness of the people with the disorder you refer to are missing something - something that I believe was of great importance in the evolution of the human mind.
- ethanbond 3y agoYeah, my understanding is that it's highly undesirable to have no sense of self-awareness.