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'''Consciousness''' is the quality or state of being [[awareness|aware]].<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness</ref>  To be conscious in the philosophical sense means to have mental processes that are self-directed <ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fDMNg2y9UN8C&pg=PA161&dq=consciousness+%22self-directedness%22</ref> and which provide a locus of subjective experience.<ref>http://www.consciousentities.com/bats.htm</ref> [[Animal]]s are alleged to possess a form of consciousness <ref>http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v5/psyche-5-16-saidel.html</ref> although this is not necessarily to be equated with the [[Christian]] notion of having [[moral]] worth or an [[immortal]] [[soul]].<ref>http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/448</ref>

'''Consciousness''' is the quality or state of being aware.<ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness</ref>  To be conscious in the philosophical sense means to have mental processes that are self-directed <ref>http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fDMNg2y9UN8C&pg=PA161&dq=consciousness+%22self-directedness%22</ref> and which provide a locus of subjective experience.<ref>http://www.consciousentities.com/bats.htm</ref> [[Animal]]s are alleged to possess a form of consciousness <ref>http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v5/psyche-5-16-saidel.html</ref> although this is not necessarily to be equated with the [[Christian]] notion of having [[moral]] worth or an immortal [[soul]].<ref>http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/448</ref>

== Origin of consciousness ==

== Atheism and the origin of consciousness ==

''See also:'' [[Origin of human consciousness]] and [[Atheism and irrationality]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and consciousness]] and [[Origin of human consciousness]] and [[Atheism and irrationality]]

The [[atheist worldview]] cannot explain the existence of consciousness and the [[theism|theistic]] worldview can offer a reasonable explanation.<ref>[http://www.johnpiippo.com/2012/03/argument-from-consciousness-for.html The Argument from Consciousness for the Existence of God]</ref><ref>[http://www.johnpiippo.com/2014/04/one-of-atheisms-irresolvable-problems.html Consciousness: One of Atheism's Irresolvable Problems]</ref>

The [[atheist worldview]] cannot explain the existence of consciousness, while the [[theism|theistic]] worldview can satisfactorily offer a reasonable explanation (see: [[Atheism and consciousness]]).<ref>

*[http://www.johnpiippo.com/2012/03/argument-from-consciousness-for.html The Argument from Consciousness for the Existence of God]*[http://www.johnpiippo.com/2014/04/one-of-atheisms-irresolvable-problems.html Consciousness: One of Atheism's Irresolvable Problems]</ref>

==Consciousness in Buddhism==

==Consciousness in Buddhism==

Consciousness or ''Vijnana'' in [[Sanskrit]] is the fifth of the [[Five aggregates]] in [[Buddhist]] philosophy of [[mind]].

Consciousness or ''Vijnana'' in [[Sanskrit]] is the fifth of the [[Five aggregates]] in [[Buddhist]] philosophy of [[mind]].

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