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Consciousness

The felt interior of experience.

Key Terms

Latin

conscientia

Sanskrit

cit / vijñāna

Across Traditions

Student Synthesis

Cartesian

Thought is the one thing that cannot be doubted.

Buddhist

Consciousness is analysed into momentary, conditioned arisings, not a single watcher.

Modern

Chalmers names the 'hard problem': why processing is accompanied by experience at all.

Comparative Analysis

Student SynthesisOpen Question

Where do these traditions agree, and where do they genuinely part? Open the editor to write the comparison in your own words.

Modern AI — the Contemporary Lens

The hard problem marks the limit: even a system that behaved as if conscious would leave the question of inner experience untouched.

Defined plainly: Hard Problem · Chinese Room

Related Thinkers

Thinker

Descartes

Thinker

The Buddha

Thinker

Zhuangzi

Related Human Questions

Question

What is Consciousness?

Question

What is the Self?