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  2. Conscience - Wikipedia

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    A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses.

  3. Conscientiousness - Wikipedia

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    Conscientious people tend to be efficient and organized as opposed to easy-going and disorderly. They tend to show self-discipline , act dutifully , and aim for achievement ; they display planned rather than spontaneous behavior; and they are generally dependable.

  4. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Individual aspects of consciousness—awareness, self-awareness, attention—can be programmed and can be part of an intelligent machine. The additional project making a machine conscious in exactly the way humans are is not one that we are equipped to take on." [37] Indeed, leading AI textbooks do not mention "sentience" at all. [38]

  5. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    According to the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, "near human-like levels of consciousness" have been observed in the grey parrot. [1]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.

  6. Conscientious objector - Wikipedia

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    A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" [1] on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion. [2] The term has also been extended to objecting to working for the military–industrial complex due to a crisis of conscience. [3]

  7. Social conscience - Wikipedia

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    A social conscience is "a sense of responsibility or concern for the problems and injustices of society". [1]While our conscience is related to moral conduct in our day-to-day lives with respect to individuals, social conscience is concerned with the broader institutions of society and the gap that we may perceive between the sort of society that should exist and the one that does exist.

  8. Freedom of thought - Wikipedia

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    D.V. Coornhert, Synod on the Freedom of Conscience: A Thorough Examination during the Gathering Held in the Year 1582 in the City of Freetown English translation; Richard Joseph Cooke, Freedom of thought in religious teaching (1913) Lucas Swaine, "Freedom of Thought as a Basic Liberty," Political Theory, 46:3 (2018): 405–425.

  9. Freedom of conscience - Wikipedia

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    Freedom of conscience is the freedom of an individual to act upon their moral beliefs. [1] In particular, it often refers to the freedom to not do something one is normally obliged, ordered or expected to do. An individual exercising this freedom may be called a conscientious objector. [a]