Talk:Awareness

levels

May i add a section of levels of awereness? something like this:"Levels of consciousness"

 -Not aware  (Sub-conscious)
 -Weak awareness (Phenomenal consciousness)
 -Self-awareness 
  -awareness of ones existense
  -awareness of ones observation
  -awareness of ones calculation
  -awareness of ones psychological aspects 

I just need some help to complete the list and to make it more representative to reality.. Ressonans 15:52, 17 aug 2006 (CMN)

Chordate

How is it known that the chordate nervous system facilitate awareness?--Brad Weisbecker 06:12, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Blank awareness

Is there a word for the general category of campaings and movements to foster "______ awareness," where "_____" is a poitical issue or crisis (as in breast cancer awareness, poverty awareness, etc.)? If so, should an article on that be listed under "see also" or up at the top? $\sim$ Lenoxus " * " 11:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Situational awareness

• analyze and communicate about people and things of interest” in a number of complex environments
• See Battlespace —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.163.44.102 (talk) 12:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Elements of awareness?

Perhaps there should be some link to "situational awareness". Endsley's definition does unpack the notion, and perhaps is more broadly applicable to "awareness"?

Situation Awareness is the perception of the elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future (pp. 36). (Endsley, 1995, after Endsley, 1987, 1988).

Company names Awareness?

I added the disambiguation link at the top of the page to differentiate between the concept of awareness (religion/philosophy) and the Massachusetts-based company, Awareness, Inc.Adammetz 23:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

minor thing

from the second paragraph: "awarement" I checked dictionary.com and this supposed word isn't listed. I would like a better explanation of this concept, because I think this part is a little vauge. "the form of awareness", etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Checazoe (talk • contribs) 07:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

does this link fit here?

or where is the right place (in addition to the wikisite of Paul Brunton? is this eventually enlightenment or illumination or awakening? Please share your idea.

Austerlitz -- 88.75.82.3 (talk) 14:46, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Add refimprove template

Since there are a few citations, I took out the Unreferenced template and replaced it with the Refimprove.  ^{.`</sup>^) Paine<sup>diss`cuss} (^^`.  09:47, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Awareness is the same as Mindfulness

I believe this article is missing a major point. Awareness is a western term for Mindfulness_(Buddhism) & Mindfulness_(psychology).

Awareness occurs in the now (present moment). Buddhist refer to it as Mindfulness.

Mindfulness is a very good descriptive word of what occurs particular in relation to the human condition. Awareness or Mindfulness watches the mind (inner world) and the external world (at the present moment). It can watch everything that occurs, memories, thoughts, emotions, feelings, physical objects, form etc. It does not get involved... it just watches non-judgementally. Real awareness can only occur in the now present moment (non-juddgemental observation). You cannot become aware of something later... that is a memory.

Without the incorporation of mindfulness this article lacks depth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashleyjoyce (talk • contribs) 20:47, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Review

This article is barely trustworthy and is biased, incomplete, and in need of better writing and more accuracy. The article attempts to address awareness from the perspective of biological psychology and provides a tentative outline. However, the articles provides little in-depth information and random unreferenced examples presented in an arbitrary order. Fundamentally, it lacks an overview of the main theories on awareness from perspectives of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and neuropsychology. For the purposes of an encyclopaedia it further lacks a lucid concise folk-psychological notion to be stated in the introduction. The reference to awareness in relation to digital information systems appears misplaced and unjustified. The edits contain apostrophizations, which belong to informal language. Finally, the references are not written in APA style. Ostracon (talk) 22:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

minimum requirement for language use

In a para overleaf you say "capacity for thought and understanding". Neither of the two words seem to be defined there or elsewhere. So it is impossible to check out the meaning of the definition. I doubt that it is right to claim such an idea. Mind you, even an insect may have "thoughts" and mammals and other animals or even plants are surely feature understanding as it is exhibited in theses days increasingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.63.35.70 (talk) 13:36, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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Reflective Access

Is awareness the same as the (philosophical) concept of "Reflective Access"? See, for example: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/#DegRefAcc Thanks.--Lbeaumont (talk) 18:33, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Circular reasoning

In the intro awareness is declared as "the state of being conscious of something". Then conscious is referred to as "the state or quality of awareness". This is a circular definition. 82.217.111.143 (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

For the discussion of this topic, please see Talk:Consciousness#circular_reasoning 82.217.111.143 (talk) 23:26, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

yep, I just noticed that as well coming from the article "Cognitive science#Consciousness" seems a bit silly to state as fact with no sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:600:3A78:3133:3DBF:D4A3:C255 (talk) 16:08, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Plagiarism

I think the whole section under Neuroscience has been plagiarized. Clarheart (talk) 17:03, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Spiritual Awareness

Hello Fellow Wikipedians: I feel the article needs to take into account the new use of the word in the context of meditation. However, although there are good references available, in this meaning, it lacks a scientific basis, and always will do, due to its necessarily subjective basis. Therefore it would not sit well here, and may need its own Wikipage. Could anyone help with this? Yesterday I wrote a rough outline, without references, which was swiftly reverted, of course. But what I wrote is as follows:

The word Awareness is being increasingly adopted by the worldwide spiritual movement as the word to describe transcendent mindfulness, where the meditator is completely detached from all objects of consciousness. This is such a supremely important new useage, it really deserves a Wikipage all of its own. Ajahn Sumedho may possibly be referring to this state in his phrase 'Intuitive Awareness.'

The term Awareness in this context is hard to exactly pin down, because it is not itself an object of consciousness. Instead, the word is used to describe a way of looking. Thus, in this context, 'Awareness' (capital A) is a way of looking, of seeing without an observer, of seeing without attachment, without identification, without identity, without an ego, without a centre. And yet, infuriatingly, many respected teachers go on to encourage the practice of being aware of Awareness. It seems therefore that even experts struggle to reckon with this Awareness. Some experts deny that there can be awareness of Awareness. Ultimately it seems that each of us must come to realise the truth of the matter for ourselves, without any hope of universal agreement. This is therefore an abstruse field of the most primary importance, because it is generally regarded as the direct route to Nibbana, Nirvana, Enlightenment. The practice of Awareness has suddenly become apparent in many religious traditions, and yet it is also becoming increasingly obvious that the practice of this Awareness has a very long history indeed. It is even visible in the ancient Upanishads. However, although many teachers agree to call this practice Awareness, any term for it is unsatisfactory. It is a state to be realised, not conceived of, or argued about. Therefore it has a plethora of other names, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. It has been called Emptiness or God or Truth or Love, and so on. It is one's true identity. One IS that. It is not to be objectively known. And yet, by consciously abiding in that state, one is led to final liberation from all that is known. By abiding in that state, one becomes gradually released from all attachment. Ajahn Chah called it Our True Home. Sukusala (talk) 05:51, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

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Psychology

I feel it would be nice to add some reliably sourced coverage of psychological experiments pertaining to one's ability to be aware of something/certain things during the experiment. 2A00:23C4:41A:9601:85A0:9D14:AB9D:DED (talk) 17:52, 9 February 2024 (UTC)