adjective
1 aware of and responding to one's surroundings: although I was in pain, I was conscious.
2 having knowledge of something: we are conscious of the extent of the problem.
• [in combination] concerned with or worried about a particular matter: they were growing increasingly security-conscious.
3 (of an action or feeling) deliberate and intentional: a conscious effort to walk properly.
• (of the mind or a thought) directly perceptible to and under the control of the person concerned: when you go to sleep it is only the conscious mind which shuts down.
I'm afraid that I am having a problem with you wishing to narrow down the idea of consciousness to that of a first aid test. — Jack Cummins
I have attended first aid training, so of course, it is an essential definition, but a medical one rather than a philosophical one — Jack Cummins
Indeed.thinking about it should not be reduced to one way of seeing it. — Jack Cummins
a First Aid course involving people training people to look after people, it is a total picture of:
Consciousness
Self-consciousness
Awareness
Self-awareness
Sentience
Mind
— T Clark
Think about it... — Amity
keeping one eye on the practicalities might be useful as the conversation proceeds. — Banno
I don't think it is helpful to try to exclude all other usages — Jack Cummins
I see why you may want to clarify these terms. I'm not sure how useful it's going to be — Manuel
I wasn't just responding to your post, but the trail of the thread which does seem to be wishing to narrow down the use of the term. I thought that the OP was trying to explore the term rather than come up with the most commonplace definition. — Jack Cummins
Part of the problem is that the words in my list have other meanings. Examples:
When I wake from a coma, I become conscious
When I stop daydreaming, I become aware
When I feel shy and embarrassed, I am self-consciousness
I don’t mind discussing other meanings or shades of meaning, but generally only with the goal of addressing ambiguity. — T Clark
Defining the hard problem of consciousness is interesting because it remains a key matter in discussions of physicalism, god and mysticism. — Tom Storm
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