The Global Dimensions of Consciousness

Some dairies, I don't necessarily think have explicitly made that claim directly, but use that as a sort of starting point. Well, and it may be a useful heuristic because there is a sort of global difference between losing consciousness entirely in general anesthesia,. maybe being a little bit conscious in drowsiness or in light sleep and being fully awake and aware. But yeah, I find myself more attracted to the view that this idea of the global level is a good starting point. There are some globally useful distinctions like anesthesia and waking consciousness, but that it's more multidimensional. That again is a feature that shared with life, life you don't measure how much life something has

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