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  • Chapter 1.2 - Consciousness in the Light of Recent Philosophy and Science

  • from Part I - Consciousness
  • Raymond Romand, University of Strasbourg, Günter Ehret, University of Ulm
  • Edited by Steven Laureys, Liège University, Belgium
  • Book:
    Near-Death Experiences
    Published online:
    30 August 2025
    Print publication:
    04 September 2025, pp 10-25

  • Summary

    For many philosophers, the mind-body problem has to be solved in order to explain consciousness. Consciousness can be described by levels of awareness and wakefulness. The evolution of consciousness in animals shows in which taxa of animals awareness and wakefulness have been reached at levels from absence of consciousness to levels similar to humans. The ontogeny of consciousness in human babies reproduces the evolution of consciousness in animals. Brain injury and disorders in humans can throw back consciousness to animal levels.