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  2. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. [3] It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness , reasoning , or complex thought processes. Sentience is an important concept in ethics , as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve ...

  3. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience , awareness , subjectivity , qualia , the ability to experience or to feel , wakefulness , having a sense ...

  4. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Using 'awareness', however, as a definition or synonym of consciousness is not a simple matter: If awareness of the environment . . . is the criterion of consciousness, then even the protozoans are conscious. If awareness of awareness is required, then it is doubtful whether the great apes and human infants are conscious. [26]

  5. Category:Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, sentience, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is.

  6. Primary consciousness - Wikipedia

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    There is no such thing as a "qualia-free" observer. Qualia are collections of personal or subjective experiences, feelings, and sensations that inevitably come with human awareness. [3] Edelman's theory focuses on two nervous system organizations: the brainstem and limbic systems on one side and the thalamus and cerebral cortex on the other ...

  7. Whatever Melania Trump wears to Inauguration Day, it will be ...

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    This story has been updated. First lady-to-be Melania Trump is no stranger to turning heads with her fashion choices, and her husband's second inauguration will be no different.. The Slovenia-born ...

  8. Cheap and deadly: Why vehicle terror attacks like the Bourbon ...

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    Experts say vehicle-based attacks are simple for a 'lone wolf' terrorist to plan and execute, and challenging for authorities to prevent.

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