| − | '''Consciousness''' is variously defined as ''subjective experience'', ''[[awareness]]'', the ability to experience "[[feeling]]", ''wakefulness'', the understanding of the concept "[[self]]", or ''the executive control system of the mind''.<ref name="Farthing1992Psychology">Farthing, 1992</ref> It is an [[umbrella term]] that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena.<ref name="van_Gulick2004">van Gulick, 2004</ref> Although humans realize what everyday experiences are, consciousness refuses to be defined, philosophers note (e.g. [[John Searle]] in ''The Oxford Companion to Philosophy''):<ref>Searle, 2005, In Honderich, 2005</ref> | + | '''Consciousness''' is variously defined as ''subjective experience'', ''[[awareness]]'', the ability to experience "[[feeling]]", ''wakefulness'', the understanding of the concept "[[self]]", or ''the executive control system of the mind''.<ref name="Farthing1992Psychology">Farthing, 1992</ref> It is an umbrella term that may refer to a variety of mental phenomena.<ref name="van_Gulick2004">van Gulick, 2004</ref> Although humans realize what everyday experiences are, consciousness refuses to be defined, philosophers note (e.g. John Searle in ''The Oxford Companion to Philosophy''):<ref>Searle, 2005, In Honderich, 2005</ref> |