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  2. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    According to Antonio Damasio, sentience is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which otherwise commonly and collectively describes sentience plus further features of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts about something). These further ...

  3. Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Sentience is generally considered sufficient for moral consideration, but some philosophers consider that moral consideration could also stem from other notions of consciousness, or from capabilities unrelated to consciousness, [28] [29] such as: "having a sophisticated conception of oneself as persisting through time; having agency and the ...

  4. 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.

  5. Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness ... - AOL

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    From 'automata' to sentient. There is not a standard definition for animal sentience or consciousness, but generally the terms denote an ability to have subjective experiences: to sense and map ...

  6. Higher-order theories of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Higher-order theories of consciousness postulate that consciousness consists in perceptions or thoughts about first-order mental states. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In particular, phenomenal consciousness is thought to be a higher-order representation of perceptual or quasi-perceptual contents, such as visual images.

  7. Models of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of human consciousness uses the theories and methodology of sociology to explain human consciousness. The theory and its models emphasize the importance of language, collective representations, self-conceptions, and self-reflectivity. It argues that the shape and feel of human consciousness is heavily social.

  8. Human - Wikipedia

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    Human consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal or external existence. [309] Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, [310] being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives". [311]

  9. Glossary of spirituality terms - Wikipedia

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    Consciousness: A quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Many philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness which is experience itself and access consciousness ...