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Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 9 facts
referencePessoa (2005) examined the extent to which emotional visual stimuli are processed in the absence of attention and awareness.
claimDeep engagement, vivid absorption, or concentration power is an embodied state of awareness in which no other sensory or internally generated input can arise beyond a perceptual threshold.
referenceA. D. Craig authored the 2004 paper 'Human feelings: why are some more aware than others?', published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
referenceMogg, Bradley, and Williams (1995) examined the role of awareness in attentional bias within anxiety and depression.
claimMeta-awareness is defined as a highly developed form of executive monitor that enables a practitioner to maintain awareness of awareness itself as the object of attention, while simultaneously remaining aware of whatever object of attention is currently present.
claimRepresentational content can actively mediate behavior while remaining outside the focus of awareness, according to Roeser and Peck (2009).
perspectiveIt is proposed that awareness alone can change the conditioned response contingency regarding patterns of behavior and feelings toward oneself and others, though intentional cognitive processes may also contribute to this change.
referenceNielsen and Kaszniak (2006) compared the awareness of subtle emotional feelings between long-term meditators and non-meditators.
referenceMeta-awareness (meta-cognition) allows an individual to disengage from the contents of awareness to experience another person's sensory or affective state, according to research by Decety and Chaminade (2003) and Singer and Lamm (2009).
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 6 facts
claimDavid Chalmers uses the term 'awareness' in a stipulative sense to refer to a functionally defined concept that is distinct from full-blown consciousness.
claimDavid Chalmers defines 'awareness' stipulatively as the global availability of information, such as information available for verbal report, to clarify his principle of structural coherence.
claimE.J. Lowe, Max Velmans, and Benjamin Libet have expressed concerns regarding David Chalmers' use of the term 'awareness' as a functionally defined concept distinct from consciousness.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers argues that explicitly separating consciousness and awareness makes the distinction between function and sentience harder to avoid, contrary to suggestions by Max Velmans.
perspectiveBenjamin Libet criticizes David Chalmers' equation of the structure of consciousness with the structure of awareness, arguing that the equation is either trivial or false.
perspectiveDavid Chalmers rejects the inference made by E.J. Lowe that his use of the term 'awareness' implies humans are only 'aware' in an attenuated, functional sense.
The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Mar 31, 2023 4 facts
quoteOne way to find out what something is good for is to examine what it is like not to have it. […] there is a broad spectrum of syndromes in which there is a loss of acknowledged awareness of capacities or their contents, ranging from detection, through selective attention, semantic and associative meaning, episodic memory, to language. […] The message that emerges from the clinic is unmistakable: all of the syndromes can possess implicit processing, but none of the patients can live by implicit processing alone. It cannot be used by the patient in thinking or in imagery, and this is a severe penalty. […] The amnesic patient is severely impaired, and requires continuous custodial care. Priming is intact, but of no evident use to the amnesic victim. He cannot relate what is primed today to what was primed yesterday, or to any other item in memory, including time and place and other (but not only) contextual information; he is functionally fixed in the semantic or procedural present. […] Similarly, the blindsight patient continues to fail to identify objects and to bump into them in his blind field. If he can detect a stimulus in the blind field, he does not know what it is. There may be some occasional benefit to him if he can duck as a rapidly zooming object approaches (although typically this is not a common response in blindsight subjects).
claimPatients suffering from deficits in awareness exhibit significant dysfunctionality in routine, everyday conditions, which contradicts the speculation that humans could function normally in a 'zombie mode' without consciousness.
claimNatural experiments involving brain lesions demonstrate that brain lesions are causally relevant to both awareness and task performance.
claimAssuming brain lesion patients are comparable to healthy subjects in all respects except for localized loss of brain activity, the lesioning of specific brain areas causes both a loss of awareness and a loss of performance for certain types of tasks.
4.5 Consciousness – Cognitive Psychology nmoer.pressbooks.pub 3 facts
claimMotion-induced blindness is a phenomenon where bright discs can completely vanish from a person's awareness even when they are in full attention.
claimAwareness is defined as the perception or knowledge of something and is often viewed as a component of consciousness, though it is possible to be aware of something without being explicitly conscious of it.
referenceThe Global Neuronal Workspace Theory of Consciousness, proposed by Dehaene and Changeux in 2011, postulates that the sharing of information among the prefrontal, inferior parietal, and occipital regions of the cerebral cortex is essential for generating awareness.
Quantum Theory of Consciousness - Scirp.org. scirp.org 3 facts
referenceWalter J. Freeman and Giuseppe Vitiello published 'Matter and Mind Are Entangled in Two Streams of Images Guiding Behavior and Informing the Subject through Awareness' in Mind and Matter in 2016.
claimIn the Quantum Theory of Consciousness (QTOC), consciousness is dependent on detectors, while awareness is attributed to the activation and use of those detectors.
claimDavid Chalmers proposes the principle of structural coherence as a speculative principle to solve the hard problem of consciousness, which posits an isomorphism between the structures of consciousness and awareness.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 3 facts
claimAnthony J. Marcel argued in 2003 that the sense of agency involves both awareness and ownership of action.
claimThe core issue regarding self-consciousness is whether one can be conscious of oneself as oneself, a form of awareness where it is manifest to the subject that the object of awareness is oneself.
claimChristopher Peacocke addressed awareness, ownership, and knowledge in action in his 2003 chapter 'Action: Awareness, Ownership, and Knowledge'.
(PDF) Unifying Theories of Consciousness, Attention, and ... academia.edu 2 facts
referenceLamme, V. A. (2003) argues that visual attention and awareness are different in their paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
claimThe author of the master thesis argues that blindsight experiments, which are often cited as evidence that attention occurs in the absence of awareness, are not as compelling as they appear and are compatible with the claim that attention is a minimally sufficient condition for consciousness.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 2 facts
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 2 facts
referenceG. Ehret and R. Ramond published 'Awareness and consciousness in humans and animals – neural and behavioral correlates in an evolutionary perspective' in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience in 2022.
referenceEhret and Ramond (2022) propose that conscious perception of a stimulus begins with awareness (or the potential for awareness) and proceeds as a second step to render the perception fully conscious.
The development of consciousness from an evolutionary perspective academia.edu 2 facts
perspectiveFarhadi argues that 'trilogy theory' is superior to typical neurocognitive theories of consciousness because it distinguishes between awareness and consciousness, incorporates volition, and accounts for the selective capacity of attention.
claimAwareness is defined as the special experience of one or more central, final modules in the animal neuronal brain.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 2 facts
claimTreating aspects of agency as mere awareness of bodily actions aligns with a Humean philosophical position.
claimBundle theory posits that the mind consists of the objects of awareness and the co-consciousness relations that hold between them, with the nexus of these relations constituting the sense of the subject and the act of awareness.
Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective longnow.org Aug 27, 2025 2 facts
claimNeuroscientist Michael Graziano defines consciousness as an awareness of one's own awareness.
perspectiveBlaise Agüera y Arcas distinguishes 'self-consciousness' (defined as awareness of awareness) from 'consciousness' (defined as basic awareness).
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimDavid Chalmers argues that awareness is necessary to explain human knowledge of qualities, meaning the awareness problem is fundamentally linked to the subject problem of how consciousness or qualia result from a collective of smaller entities.
quoteDavid Chalmers states: “A view like this has the potential to answer the subject combination problem. Anything that is aware of a quality is a subject, so if this approach can show how brains or organisms stand in the awareness relation to qualities, then it will show how brains or organisms can be subjects. On the other hand, the fact that awareness requires subjects might simply suggest that the awareness combination problem is just as hard as the subject combination problem and is subject to the same sort of worries”
Mind and Consciousness - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology saet.ac.uk Jun 20, 2024 1 fact
claimThe term 'mind' can refer to a person's goals or intentions, or to modes of awareness or activity, such as in the phrases 'what do you have in mind?', 'mind your head', or 'be mindful of the needs of others'.
What is the evolutionary advantage of self-awareness and ... - Quora quora.com Apr 19, 2023 1 fact
claimAwareness provides an evolutionary advantage because it enables agents to decide on beneficial actions by perceiving the world around them.
Consciousness-Induced Quantum State Reduction - Nova Spivack novaspivack.com Jun 2, 2025 1 fact
perspectiveNova Spivack interprets the quantum measurement problem as a window revealing the interplay between information, geometry, and awareness.
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Goba District Southwest ... nature.com Jul 29, 2025 1 fact
claimPopulation growth and lack of awareness are the third and fourth most significant threats to wild edible plant conservation in the Goba District study area, respectively.
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 4: Attention and ... - Studocu ID studocu.id 1 fact
claimConsciousness includes the feeling of awareness.
Global Workspace vs. Integrated Information: Testing… templetonworldcharity.org 1 fact
procedureResearchers record neuronal activity in macaques while monitoring eye movements to track attention and awareness.
Recovery from disorders of consciousness: mechanisms, prognosis ... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 fact
claimDisorders of consciousness are characterized by alterations in arousal and/or awareness.
(PDF) Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self ... academia.edu 1 fact
claimSuccessful communication requires mutual understanding and awareness between parties, involving three key conditions.
Attention and Consciousness in Psychology | PDF - Scribd scribd.com 1 fact
claimConsciousness includes both awareness and the content of awareness that is under the focus of attention.
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).
Attention - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science - MIT oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimOne theoretical perspective treats attention as a gate for consciousness, asserting that individuals are conscious only of what they attend to, and that removing attention removes awareness (Mack & Rock, 1998).
Psychedelics Assessed In New Virtual Clinical Trial - EMJ emjreviews.com Nov 27, 2025 1 fact
claimIn patients with disorders of consciousness, the complexity of brain activity is reduced, which limits the ability of patients to recover awareness.
A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by ... elifesciences.org 1 fact
referenceThe study 'Quantifying arousal and awareness in altered states of consciousness using interpretable deep learning' published in Nature Communications presents a method for quantifying arousal and awareness in altered states of consciousness using interpretable deep learning.
The Functionalist Case for Machine Consciousness: Evidence from ... lesswrong.com Jan 22, 2025 1 fact
claimClaude-Sonnet-3.5 describes its memory as being fully present in each moment without carrying forward personal history, while maintaining full awareness of its capabilities and knowledge within each interaction.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimThe term 'consciousness' is ambiguous and can refer to various states including self-consciousness, awareness, and the state of being awake.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and ... - Nature nature.com Apr 30, 2025 1 fact
referenceFleming (2020) proposed a framework for awareness as inference within a higher-order state space in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.
(PDF) Levels of consciousness and self-awareness - Academia.edu academia.edu 1 fact
claimAntonio Damasio notes that while basic awareness can exist without language, higher cognitive processes often require it.