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    This document discusses different perspectives on the concept of consciousness. It notes that despite millennia of analysis, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being both familiar yet mysterious. There are various opinions on what exactly needs to be studied regarding consciousness, with some viewing it as synonymous with the mind, and others as an aspect of the mind. The document outlines different potential levels, kinds, or features of consciousness that have been proposed, and questions whether only humans, all animals, or even the universe as a whole can be considered conscious. It provides examples of the range of descriptions, definitions and explanations that have been suggested for consciousness.

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    This document discusses different perspectives on the concept of consciousness. It notes that despite millennia of analysis, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being both familiar yet mysterious. There are various opinions on what exactly needs to be studied regarding consciousness, with some viewing it as synonymous with the mind, and others as an aspect of the mind. The document outlines different potential levels, kinds, or features of consciousness that have been proposed, and questions whether only humans, all animals, or even the universe as a whole can be considered conscious. It provides examples of the range of descriptions, definitions and explanations that have been suggested for consciousness.

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    This article is about cognition.

    For other uses, see Consciousness (disambiguation) and Conscious


    (disambiguation).
    Not to be confused with Conscientiousness or Conscience.

    Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian
    physician

    Consciousness, at its simplest, is "sentience or awareness of internal and external existence".


    [1]
     Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and
    scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, [2] being "at once the most familiar and
    most mysterious aspect of our lives".[3] Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the
    intuition that it exists.[4] Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as
    consciousness. Sometimes, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of it. In
    the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of
    private thought, imagination and volition.[5] Today, it often includes some kind
    of experience, cognition, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness,
    or self-awareness.[6] There might be different levels or orders of consciousness,[7] or different kinds of
    consciousness, or just one kind with different features. [8] Other questions include whether only
    humans are conscious, all animals, or even the whole universe. The disparate range of research,
    notions and speculations raises doubts about whether the right questions are being asked. [9]
    Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: simple wakefulness, one's
    sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within"; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or
    being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain;
    having phanera or qualia and subjectivity; being the 'something that it is like' to 'have' or 'be' it; being
    the "inner theatre" or the executive control system of the mind. [10]

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