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A 4 page overview of this complex philosophical arena. Questions regarding the nature of human consciousness and how it relates to cognitive unconsciousness are inextricably tied to questions of consciousness and unconsciousness in animals. So too are questions regarding the nature of human speech tied up in questions of whether animals have the capacity for language when, admittedly they have nothing like human syntactic speech. Modern philosophers have even occupied themselves with the question of how human behavior differs from that of intelligent machines such as computers and robots. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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our understanding of our existence as living beings has occupied the minds of philosophers from all time periods and all cultures. Questions regarding the nature of human consciousness and
how it relates to cognitive unconsciousness are inextricably tied to questions of consciousness and unconsciousness in animals. So too are questions regarding the nature of human speech tied up
in questions of whether animals have the capacity for language when, admittedly they have nothing like human syntactic speech. Modern philosophers have even occupied themselves with the question of
how human behavior differs from that of intelligent machines such as computers and robots. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of those questions and the explanations
which have been presented. The distinction between the consciousness and the unconsciousness revolves around a cultures sense of self. In the Vedanta
view, for example, the self is consciousness. Under this view consciousness and cognition are two independent phenomena. In the Vedanta view cognition occurs in response to specific stimuli
(Mohanty, 2001). Cognition ends in the absence of that stimuli (Mohanty, 2001). Therefore, to accept this view of knowing we must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a
separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stimuli (Mohanty, 2001). At the same time, however, under the Vendanta of Samkara view we must accept
that an individual is aware of his or her own ignorance as it existed before cognition occurred (Mohanty, 2001). If an individual is aware of the fact that they
are cognizing an object or event for the first time the, by association, they are also aware that they were unaware of this object or event previous to that cognition
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