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Conscious vs Representationalism - What's the difference?

conscious | representationalism |

As an adjective conscious

is alert, awake.

As a noun representationalism is

the belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world of the mind of the beholder.

conscious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Alert, awake.
  • Aware.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • *
  • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
  • Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
  • * 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
  • The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .

    Antonyms

    * asleep * unaware * unconscious

    Derived terms

    * consciously * consciousness * subconscious * unconscious * preconscious * price-conscious * self-conscious

    representationalism

    English

    Noun

  • (philosophy) The belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world of the mind of the beholder.
  • (arts) Realistic representation of the world in art.
  • Synonyms

    (philosophy) * internal perception * indirect realism * epistemological dualism (art) * realism