Consciousness

What is Consciousness?

Internal Consciousness: 1st person, subjective, mental 

Awareness of the self, Perceiving sensation, Experiencing working memory, Recovering and displaying space-time event memories, and Decision-making capacity 

External Consciousness: 3rd person, objective, behavioral

Wakefulness, Background emotions, Attention, and Purposeful behavior

Core Consciousness

Our sense of ourselves in the here and now, Our sense of objects in the here and now, and Our sense of the relationship between these objects and ourselves

Extended Consciousness

Our sense of ourselves in the flow of time, Thinking about ourselves in the past, Forecast ourselves living in the future, Known as the autobiographical self, Depends on long-term memory, and Extended consciousness depends on core consciousness