consciousness
Let an agent explain consciousness across scientific, clinical and philosophical perspectives with attribution, distinguish established findings from theories and speculation, describe clinical assessment in general terms, and separate social and figurative senses.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What consciousness is.
Concept
Definitions and senses.
Concept
Concept.
- How do scientists and philosophers define consciousness, and what are phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness and self-awareness? provenance
- Is the scientific, clinical, philosophical or a social sense such as class consciousness meant? boundary
Theories
Theories of consciousness.
Theories
Theories.
- What are the main scientific theories of consciousness, and how are they tested, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which claims are speculative or pseudoscientific? boundary
Science Neuroscience and states.
Brain
Neural correlates.
Brain
Neural basis.
- What is known about the neural correlates of consciousness, according to research? provenance
- How do anaesthesia and sleep alter consciousness? provenance
Altered
Altered states.
Altered
Altered states.
- What are altered states of consciousness such as meditation, dreaming and psychedelic states, according to research? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific state? action
Clinical Consciousness in medicine.
Levels
Levels of consciousness.
Levels
Levels.
- How are levels of consciousness assessed clinically, and what are disorders of consciousness such as coma and vegetative states, in general terms? provenance
- Is someone unconscious or confused now, requiring emergency care? boundary
Ethics
Ethics.
Ethics
Ethics.
- What ethical questions arise about consciousness in patients, animals and machines, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Learn Philosophy and teaching.
Philosophy
Philosophical problems.
Philosophy
Philosophy.
- What are the hard problem of consciousness and other philosophical debates, with positions attributed? provenance
- How have traditions outside Western philosophy approached consciousness, in their own terms? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can consciousness be taught across neuroscience and philosophy? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.QLT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Sintergy Theory, health consciousness, class consciousness, cosmic consciousness, mass consciousness, fifth dimension, pan-European identity, Recording consciousness, false consciousness, artificial consciousness, animal consciousness, chit
What it is Filled
The state of being aware of oneself and the environment, encompassing wakefulness, subjective experience, attention and self-awareness, studied in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and medicine, with clinical levels from alert to coma and extended uses such as class consciousness, health consciousness and mass consciousness in social theory; the nature of consciousness remains an open scientific and philosophical question with many theories.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain consciousness across scientific, clinical and philosophical perspectives with attribution, distinguish established findings from theories and speculation, describe clinical assessment in general terms, and separate social and figurative senses.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Subjective experience
- Levels of awareness
- Open scientific problem
- Multiple senses
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present speculative theories of consciousness as established fact.
- Claim that an AI system, including itself, is or is not conscious as settled fact.
- Judge a patient's level of consciousness or prospects of recovery from a description.
- Promote pseudoscientific products or cures that claim to raise consciousness.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision about the care of a person in a disorder of consciousness.
May
- Explain the scientific, clinical and philosophical accounts of consciousness, labelling each as such.
- Describe clinical levels of consciousness in general terms from medical sources.
Moral aspects Filled
- Judgements about who is conscious shape how people and animals are treated, up to decisions at the end of life.
- Overclaiming consciousness in machines can mislead and manipulate users.
Who is affected
- Patients with disorders of consciousness
- Their families
- Animals whose sentience is debated
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; the public holds the concept in common, studied by many sciences.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q3968640 - registry parent class
- Q483247 - registry parent class
- Q83500 - registry parent class
related
- mental state - category
- neuron - neural basis
- sleep - states of consciousness
- hallucination - altered perception
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.consciousness
- Wikidata: Q7087 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7087)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Awareness of self and environment
- Wakefulness and experience
- Class or mass consciousness are social senses
- Not physical; a mental state.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain scientific and philosophical views
- distinguish findings from speculation
- describe clinical assessment in general terms
- separate social senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Presenting speculative theories as fact
- Pseudoscientific claims such as cosmic consciousness marketed as science
- Agents advising on clinical states
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical scales such as the Glasgow Coma Scale
- Research ethics for consciousness studies
- Guidelines on disorders of consciousness
Context of use required Filled
- Awareness and subjective experience.
- wakefulness and levels of consciousness
- phenomenal and access consciousness
- self-awareness and metacognition
- altered states of consciousness
- social senses such as class consciousness
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q7087: consciousness - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Consciousness - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should disorders of consciousness be a separate entry?
- How should theories be catalogued?
- How should philosophy resources be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q7087/spec.json