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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Purpose and description
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.
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.
What it is for: Awareness and subjective experience.
It can be explain scientific and philosophical views; distinguish findings from speculation; describe clinical assessment in general terms; separate social senses.
Distinguishing features
Subjective experience
Levels of awareness
Open scientific problem
Multiple senses
What it looks like
Not physical; a mental state.
How it is recognised
Awareness of self and environment
Wakefulness and experience
Class or mass consciousness are social senses
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - neural basis
is related to - states of consciousness
is related to - altered perception
In practice
Families and kinds
wakefulness and levels of consciousness
phenomenal and access consciousness
self-awareness and metacognition
altered states of consciousness
social senses such as class consciousness
Standards and regulation
Clinical scales such as the Glasgow Coma Scale
Research ethics for consciousness studies
Guidelines on disorders of consciousness
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting speculative theories as fact
Pseudoscientific claims such as cosmic consciousness marketed as science
Agents advising on clinical states
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.consciousness
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What consciousness is.
Concepts.
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.
Research.
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.
General information.
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.
Context.
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
What the second pass must settle
- Should disorders of consciousness be a separate entry?
- How should theories be catalogued?
- How should philosophy resources be linked?