I would think that consciousness is what 'we' are conscious of.
Sub-consciousness is what we are conscious of but on a lower level and its often 'just under the radar' and we don't realize we were conscious of it until afterwards..
UNconsciousness is the part of the brain that we are NOT conscious of...like all our memories that are storied in their that we are not thinking about for example...
Perhaps SELF-consciousness in when we are being more conscious of our own consciousness - e.g thinking about our own thinking...
I would think if there is a distinction between consciousness and SELF-consciousness - I can believe that there could be quite a few at least partially conscious animals - but to be SELF-conscious - to be conscious of the self and one's own consciousness (like we are now - TALKING about consciousness - we are conscious of our own consciousness - one step further.) I don't know if any other animals can do that...
PERHAPS chimps or bonobos or whatever...I have no idea how they would be able to form any sort of even primitive VERY basic concept of the fact that they have consciousness though...
So if a few or even many other animals have consciousness TO SOME EXTENT at least - I think perhaps we humans are the only animal on the planet that has SELF-consciousness. E.G - we recognize and realize that we are 'conscious' that we have 'consciousness' - we are aware of our own consciousness. And we can think about our own thinking...
TBH there are an awful lot of people in my experience who don't think about their own thoughts! They just go throughout the day not really thinking much apart from about practical things that they 'gotta do'. That's a lot of people. Luckily not everyone
But yet they're still conscious of their own self...their own consciousnes - they're still self-conscious...
Perhaps just less aware than they potentially good be.
EvF
Sub-consciousness is what we are conscious of but on a lower level and its often 'just under the radar' and we don't realize we were conscious of it until afterwards..
UNconsciousness is the part of the brain that we are NOT conscious of...like all our memories that are storied in their that we are not thinking about for example...
Perhaps SELF-consciousness in when we are being more conscious of our own consciousness - e.g thinking about our own thinking...
I would think if there is a distinction between consciousness and SELF-consciousness - I can believe that there could be quite a few at least partially conscious animals - but to be SELF-conscious - to be conscious of the self and one's own consciousness (like we are now - TALKING about consciousness - we are conscious of our own consciousness - one step further.) I don't know if any other animals can do that...
PERHAPS chimps or bonobos or whatever...I have no idea how they would be able to form any sort of even primitive VERY basic concept of the fact that they have consciousness though...
So if a few or even many other animals have consciousness TO SOME EXTENT at least - I think perhaps we humans are the only animal on the planet that has SELF-consciousness. E.G - we recognize and realize that we are 'conscious' that we have 'consciousness' - we are aware of our own consciousness. And we can think about our own thinking...
TBH there are an awful lot of people in my experience who don't think about their own thoughts! They just go throughout the day not really thinking much apart from about practical things that they 'gotta do'. That's a lot of people. Luckily not everyone
But yet they're still conscious of their own self...their own consciousnes - they're still self-conscious...
Perhaps just less aware than they potentially good be.
EvF
