Sentience is one facet of consciousness, but it is not the only one and plausibly not the one responsible for “observe and compare”, which requires high cognitive function. See my list of facets here:
Good list. I think I’d use a triangle to organize them. Have consciousness at the base, then sentience, then drawing from your list, phenomenal consciousness, followed by Intentionality?
I see it as a hierarchy that results from lower to high degree of processing and resulting abstractions.
Sentience is simple hard-wired behavioral responses to pleasure or pain stimuli and physiological measures.
Wakefulness involves more complex processing such that diurnal or sleep/wake patterns are possible (requires at least two levels).
Intentionality means systematic pursuing of desires. That requires yet another level of processing: Different patterns of behaviors for different desires at different times and their optimization.
Phenomenal Consciousness is then the representation of the desire in a linguistic or otherwise communicable form, which is again one level higher.
Self-Consciousness includes the awareness of this process going on.
Meta-Consciousness is then the analysis of this whole stack.
Sentience is one facet of consciousness, but it is not the only one and plausibly not the one responsible for “observe and compare”, which requires high cognitive function. See my list of facets here:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8szBqBMqGJApFFsew/gunnar_zarncke-s-shortform#W8XBDmjvbhzszEnrJ
Good list. I think I’d use a triangle to organize them. Have consciousness at the base, then sentience, then drawing from your list, phenomenal consciousness, followed by Intentionality?
I see it as a hierarchy that results from lower to high degree of processing and resulting abstractions.
Sentience is simple hard-wired behavioral responses to pleasure or pain stimuli and physiological measures.
Wakefulness involves more complex processing such that diurnal or sleep/wake patterns are possible (requires at least two levels).
Intentionality means systematic pursuing of desires. That requires yet another level of processing: Different patterns of behaviors for different desires at different times and their optimization.
Phenomenal Consciousness is then the representation of the desire in a linguistic or otherwise communicable form, which is again one level higher.
Self-Consciousness includes the awareness of this process going on.
Meta-Consciousness is then the analysis of this whole stack.
See also https://wiki.c2.com/?LeibnizianDefinitionOfConsciousness
Yes, I like it! Thanks for sharing that analysis, Gunnar.