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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Consciousness/awareness

Hi

Do you think there is any difference between "consciousness" and "awareness"?

For example, somebody wrote: "left-brain consciousness" and "right-brain awareness" and also "left-brain awareness"
  

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Newguest Do you think there is any difference between "consciousness" and "awareness"? Yes, I do. But my opinion is irrelevant!

  • Newguest Do you think there is any difference between "consciousness" and "awareness"?
  • Yes, I do.
  • But my opinion is irrelevant!
  • These words are so slippery that you need to understand them in context.
  • Whatever the writer understands as the difference (or lack of difference) is the understanding you have to come to in order to interpret that writer's use of those words.
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NewguestDo you think there is any difference between "consciousness" and "awareness"?
Yes, I do. But my opinion is irrelevant! These words are so slippery that you need to understand them in context. Whatever the writer understands as the difference (or lack of difference) is the understanding you have to come to in order to interpret that writer's u
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yes dear,

consciousness is differed from awareness, let me explain u, consciousness mean being in the stage of active whether the body or brain and awareness means , aware about a thing.

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From a grammatical standpoint, they may form different collocations.

For example, you can lose consciousness at the hospital and they will be resusitating you.

I don't think anyone uses "lose awareness" the same way as "lose consciousness", although I can't speak for native speakers.

The old adage is "there's not a pair of words that would be 100% equal". There are slig
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I agree we don't say that an unconscious person has "lost awareness" in the way we would say he has "lost consciousness."

But if you pricked a person whom you knew to be unconscious, with a pin, and he responded in some physical way; you might speculate that "he seems to be aware of the pin," the physiology of it notwithstanding.

I'm just referring to the lay usage of the two te

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