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Consciousness and conscious experience are intrinsically linked, as consciousness is defined as the capacity to have conscious experiences [1], and the two terms are often used interchangeably when describing brain dynamics [2]. Furthermore, philosophical and scientific inquiries frequently treat them as inseparable, exploring how conscious experience arises from consciousness {fact:3, fact:7, fact:14} and how both relate to physical or neural states {fact:2, fact:4, fact:11}.
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The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimThere is no proof that the neurocircuitry responsible for generating conscious experiences co-localizes with the cortical patterns of activity associated with sensory processing and memory, suggesting consciousness could reside elsewhere (Merker, 2004; Merker, 2007; Morsella et al., 2016).
claimThe author defines "consciousness" as the ability to have conscious experiences, regardless of how this manifests on a moment-to-moment basis during behavior.
Do all non-physicalist theories of consciousness face the interaction ... philosophy.stackexchange.com 2 facts
perspectiveDualism fails to provide an answer to the interaction problem, specifically regarding how consciousness receives signals from the brain, how thoughts link to brain activity, how mind-altering substances affect conscious experience, and how brain damage impedes conscious function.
claimThe 'no interaction' version of dualism implies that sensory data cannot travel from the physical world to consciousness, and choices cannot travel from consciousness to the physical world, which makes the observed alignment between the physical world and conscious experience inexplicable.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimA Kantian argument for self-consciousness being a necessary condition of consciousness posits that conscious experience is necessarily unified, and that this unity of consciousness depends on self-awareness.
The Conscious Mind - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimReductive accounts of consciousness fail because they cannot explain why specific brain states are accompanied by conscious experience.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
perspectiveMany philosophers reject the epiphenomenalist view of consciousness because it implies that conscious experiences—such as feeling pain, visual sensations, or understanding an argument—have no causal influence on human behavior.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimIn Henry Stapp's model of consciousness, the neural correlate of a conscious experience can encode an intention, functioning as a 'template for action' that serves as the basis for free will.
Attention and Consciousness in Psychology - PhilPapers philpapers.org 1 fact
claimCognitive science research in the area of attention and consciousness explores two central questions: whether attention can exist in the absence of consciousness (unconscious attention) and whether conscious experience or awareness can exist in the absence of attention (consciousness without attention).
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
referenceK. V. Wilkes authored the chapter 'Losing consciousness' in the 1995 book 'Conscious Experience', published by Ferdinand Schöningh.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe thesis that conscious experience is essentially temporal implies that if time does not exist at the fundamental level of reality, then consciousness cannot exist at the fundamental level of reality.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
perspectiveThe author posits that the 'interface' described in their model of brain dynamics is closely related to conscious experience, to the extent that the term 'interface' can often be replaced by 'consciousness'.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
perspectiveSome authors conclude that conscious experience is an undeniable fact and that no materialist account will ever be able to sufficiently explain or explain away consciousness.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimThe only intrinsic nature familiar to humans is consciousness itself, as the qualities of conscious experience, such as the smell of a rose or the taste of a strawberry, are not reducible to relations among non-experiential states.