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- Dictionaryself-consciousness/ˌsɛlfˈkɒnʃəsnəs/
noun
- 1. undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions: "people warm to her candour and lack of self-consciousness"
- 2. the quality of being carried out deliberately and with full awareness, especially in an affected way: "the self-consciousness of the opening scene devolves steadily into parody"
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17 hours ago · To explore the relation between matter and consciousness, some theorists compare humans to philosophical zombies, that is, hypothetical creatures identical to humans but without conscious experience. [102] A related method relies on commonly accepted beliefs instead of intuitions to formulate arguments and theories.
17 hours ago · It dispenses with the concepts of a fixed id, ego and superego, and instead posits conscious and unconscious conflict among wishes (dependent, controlling, sexual, and aggressive), guilt and shame, emotions (especially anxiety and depressive affect), and defensive operations that shut off from consciousness some aspect of the others.
