Consciousness is a very subjective experience, and in itself it is difficult to define. For example, we know humans experience consciousness as we are aware of our surroundings and can discuss it ...

A simple definition of consciousness is sensory awareness of the body, the self, and the world. The fetus may be aware of the body, for example by perceiving pain. It reacts to touch, smell ...

One of the problems with the study of consciousness is the lack of a universally accepted operational definition. Descartes proposed the idea of cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), which ...

THE DEFINITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS is a notoriously slippery concept that philosophers, scientists—and now AI engineers—have debated for centuries. Alan Turing’s famous test measured the ...

Regarding this new discussion regarding consciousness and the brain, it is clear that the field still has some ways to go before we have a complete definition of consciousness. I view this as an ...

We still do not know what makes the difference between being alive and having consciousness. In humans, the definition of consciousness is vague and speculative. For example, the Glasgow coma ...

Rather than set a strict definition and exclude everything that falls short, researchers are moving towards a more “cluster-based” model of consciousness, basing the state on a collection of ...

Without a particularly robust definition of what consciousness even is, that's still about all we can say for sure; I'm pretty sure I'm sentient, I've got no idea about you lot. But that doesn't ...

Part of the problem, wrote the authors, is that there isn’t a clear definition of “consciousness.” In this paper, they separated the term into two experiences: one outer, one inner. The outer ...