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subjective consciousness
Also known as: subjective awareness, subjective component of consciousness, subjective conscious experiences
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Hard Problem of Consciousness | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 3 facts
claimThe 'immediacy' of the subjective component of consciousness refers to the way subjects access conscious states from a first-person perspective without inference, evidence, or argument.
claimThe immediacy of the subjective component of consciousness creates an intuition of special accuracy or infallibility regarding knowledge of one's own conscious states, which contributes to the hard problem of consciousness.
claimUriah Kriegel defines the 'subjective component of consciousness' as the feature where subjects are aware of their conscious states in a distinctive way, focusing on the fact that something appears for the organism.
Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective longnow.org Aug 27, 2025 1 fact
claimPhilosophers Susan Schneider and David Chalmers proposed a thought experiment where a silicon-based computer might be behaviorally identical to a neural-based brain but lack subjective consciousness, a concept they refer to as a "philosophical zombie."
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
accountIn David Chalmers' hypothetical zombie-world, every person has a 'zombie clone' who behaves exactly like the original person but lacks any phenomenal experience or subjective awareness.
Fame in the Brain—Global Workspace Theories of Consciousness psychologytoday.com Oct 28, 2023 1 fact
claimAnil Seth and Tim Bayne observe that Global Workspace Theories and Higher-Order Theories focus on what makes a representation conscious, rather than explaining the qualitatively distinct feelings of different subjective conscious experiences.
[PDF] Consciousness and the attention schema: Why it has to be right grazianolab.princeton.edu May 20, 2020 1 fact
referenceThe article titled 'Consciousness and the attention schema: Why it has to be right' describes aspects of the underlying logic of the attention schema theory (AST) of subjective consciousness.
(PDF) On the function of consciousness - an adaptationist perspective academia.edu 1 fact
claimInformational sensitivity can occur without subjective awareness, whereas subjective sensitivity requires a cognitive representation of information that impacts organism behavior.
Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention psychologytoday.com Jun 9, 2015 1 fact
claimConsciousness is defined as the subjective awareness of various things such as visual objects, events, thoughts, and emotions.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimSince 1990, researchers including Francis Crick and Christof Koch have worked to identify neurobiological events that occur concurrently with the experience of subjective consciousness, which are referred to as neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs).