Thomas Nagel (1974) defines a conscious creature as one where a mental state is conscious if there is something that it is like to be in that state, providing a first-person or internal conception of phenomenal or qualitative states.

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• Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• mental states concept
• Thomas Nagel entity
• phenomenal states concept