AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Consciousness is our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment. Consciousness is functional because we use it to reason logically, to plan activities, and to monitor our progress toward the goals we set for ourselves. Consciousness has been central to many theories of psychology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Consciousness is your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, and environments. Essentially, your consciousness is your awareness of yourself and the world around you. This awareness is subjective and unique to you.

Detailed explanation-3: -Self-consciousness can be defined for an individual as the awareness of his/her own body in a time-space continuum and its interactions with the environment – including others. It also encompasses the awareness that the individual has of his/her own identity, built over time in interaction with others.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Nagel, a being is conscious just if there is “something that it is like” to be that creature, i.e., some subjective way the world seems or appears from the creature’s mental or experiential point of view.