Eli5: Difference between arousal, awareness and consciousness.
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Arousal is stimulation–a heightening of reaction or activity due to some external or situational event.
Awareness is A.) Ability or active process of being aware of things, percieving what’s going on in your environment, etc. B.) Actual knowledge of one’s self and ongoing state of experience.
Consciousness is essentially B of the above. Less focused on input being recognized and more focused on what experience itself is.
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