phenomenal consciousness
feh-NOM-ih-nul KON-shus-nes
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the dimension of mental life characterised by subjective, first-person experience — the felt quality of being aware of oneself and one's environment, as distinct from access consciousness, which concerns the availability of information for use in reasoning and behaviour; David Chalmers distinguishes phenomenal consciousness as the seat of the hard problem of consciousness: even a complete functional and physical explanation of the brain would seem to leave open the question of why any of this processing is accompanied by subjective experience at all; theories of phenomenal consciousness range from higher-order thought theories and global workspace theory to integrated information theory and illusionism
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