Consciousness allows an input of that awareness in addition to other people's awareness. However words should not be used as a restriction of what can or cannot exist in the mind.Īwareness to me, is what your body, sense organs know from your own viewpoint. We all use words to communicate, hopefully with a standard "unpacking" from symbols to meaning. The threshhold CAPACITY of the individual for achieving so developed a state of interoperability, predicated as it is on both sentience and awaress is, I submit, reasonably termed CONSCIOUSNESS. A brightly robust, internally stable CONSCIOUS awareness of one's own sense of values & assigned meaning as derived through abstract thought processes that are capable of adapting to and integrating with functionally similar processes in a wide range of inhabitants (i.e., across multiple species of living participants) in the relevant ecosystem. Such a state, IMHO, would qualify as a "CONSCIENCE".
SENTIENCE VS CONSCIOUSNESS FULL
Not an impossible objective (witness the UN, the OAS, the EEU) but one which demands an individually optimized abstraction of the full range of human experience integrated and shared among a spectum of multiple and distinct social systems. Introspection and imaginative extrospection are both requied to achieve high degrees of interoperability across boundaries of sophistocated, highly evolved and possibly ridgid systems of social interchange. Similarly, faced with a more expansive sphere of potential interchange, abstraction of a more complex nature is required. That is to say, a broader plane of interoperability. The need to express or the potential utility derived from sharing and exchanging of such assigned meaning drives the process of abstraction yielding vocabulary of both physical utterance and action that demands organized AWARENESS within the individual's own mentation and that of other individuals in the relavent social environment. One acquires somatisensory input, such as it is and assigns highly personalized, idiosyncratic and subjective meaning to the input. Developmentally, for example, an otherwise physically nourished individual possess and makes individually beneficial use of what is sensed in the absence of a formal vocabulary and extensive societal protocal for information interchange. SENTIENCE seems to carry and connote characteristics which satisfy conditions of minimal interoperability between the individual and a necessary set of others. Hope I could help, check the links for more information.ĭrawing on existing contributions, I wonder if introducing the concept of interoperability might lend clarity and a useful organizing stability to the discussion of these interrelated terms? To wit:Ĭonsider human development (both of an individual subject and of the specie in toto) and the utility of the underlying characteristics embodied by each of these three terms. Consciousness then is used in many different meanings, but often as a umbrella term for several faculties. Awareness is mainly the physical act of perceiving, while sentience is a subjective way of actually being affected. If I'm not mistaken it's halfway safe to say that awareness and sentience are levels or subclasses of the consciousness.
In biological psychology, awareness is defined as a human's or an animal's perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. (Wikipedia)Īwareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns.
SENTIENCE VS CONSCIOUSNESS PLUS
Sentience is a minimalistic way of defining "consciousness", which is otherwise commonly used to collectively describe sentience plus other characteristics of the mind. In modern western philosophy, sentience is the ability to have sensations or experiences (described by some thinkers as " qualia"). Eighteenth century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think ("reason") from the ability to feel ("sentience"). Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or be conscious, or to have subjective experiences. You should check the SEP article for there is a lot more to say about consciousness than one of us could actually summarise here. Others, though, have argued that the level of disagreement about the meaning of the word indicates that it either means different things to different people, or else is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of distinct meanings with no simple element in common (Wikipedia). I will try to find some exemplary definitions:Ĭonsciousness: Many philosophers have argued that consciousness is a unitary concept that is understood intuitively by the majority of people in spite of the difficulty in defining it. These are all terms that one frequently reads in texts on Cognitive Science.
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