Intellect vs Consciousness - What's the difference?
intellect | consciousness |
the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
a person who has that faculty to a great degree
The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
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As nouns the difference between intellect and consciousness
is that intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)consciousness is the state of being conscious or aware; awareness.intellect
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- Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
- They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
- Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
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* mindconsciousness
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Noun
(wikipedia consciousness)The machine of a new soul, passage=Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness .}}