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Consciousness
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentienceawarenesssubjectivity, the ability to experience or to  feelwakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives."

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