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The concepts of consciousness and PERSONA are interconnected in philosophical discussions, as persons (or personas) are widely regarded as conscious entities capable of subjective experience and suffering [1][2], while theories like E. J. Lowe's substance dualism explicitly address whether persons are defined solely by consciousness, distinguishing it from Descartes's view [3].
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Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk 1 fact
claimIt is widely held that persons, subjects, minds, or souls are conscious, but the state of consciousness itself is not conscious, similar to how persons engage in activities like thinking or running, but the activities themselves are not thinking or running.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimE. J. Lowe's theory of substance dualism differs from René Descartes's because Lowe does not define the person as a purely mental substance defined solely by thought or consciousness.