# Contested concept: awareness

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: The contestation obscures whether self-modeling and prediction suffice for consciousness or only for non-conscious cognition.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/awareness` (data: `/concept/awareness.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Typed awareness (agency, goal, sensorimotor) that may be non-conscious** — used in 5 claim(s)
- **Self-awareness as the acquired ability to imagine oneself in the future, graded** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **Creating and testing models of processes, the world, self, and others** — used in 2 claim(s)
- **Synonym of consciousness** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Creating such a model [of a process, as part of awareness] includes modeling the physical world, modeling one's own internal states and pro…](/claim/claim_0c02a72428ec.md) _(sense: Creating and testing models of processes, the world, self, and others)_
- [Agency awareness, goal awareness, and sensorimotor awareness may also be conscious or not.](/claim/claim_253ef3ee5657.md) _(sense: Typed awareness (agency, goal, sensorimotor) that may be non-conscious)_
- [Because objects of awareness are often conscious, the distinction between awareness and consciousness is frequently blurred or they [awaren…](/claim/claim_323caf55f910.md) _(sense: Synonym of consciousness)_
- [Awareness includes creating and testing alternative models of each process based on the information received through the senses or imagined.](/claim/claim_4b7e2fac2a4c.md) _(sense: Creating and testing models of processes, the world, self, and others)_
- [Consequently, [according to Hod Lipson's definition,] as machines learn to simulate themselves more accurately and further into the future,…](/claim/claim_4d856d2245e3.md) _(sense: Self-awareness as the acquired ability to imagine oneself in the future, graded)_
- [In agency awareness, you may be aware that you performed a certain action yesterday, but are not now conscious of it.](/claim/claim_79b410ccc86d.md) _(sense: Typed awareness (agency, goal, sensorimotor) that may be non-conscious)_
- [In sensorimotor awareness, you may be aware that your hand is resting on an object, but are not now conscious of it.](/claim/claim_7b129a8f6b17.md) _(sense: Typed awareness (agency, goal, sensorimotor) that may be non-conscious)_
- [There are at least three types of awareness: agency awareness, goal awareness, and sensorimotor awareness.](/claim/claim_a46b8cb23978.md) _(sense: Typed awareness (agency, goal, sensorimotor) that may be non-conscious)_
- [In goal awareness, you may be aware that you must search for a lost object, but are not now conscious of it.](/claim/claim_ba4f34b4a4ce.md) _(sense: Typed awareness (agency, goal, sensorimotor) that may be non-conscious)_
- [According to [Hod Lipson's self-modeling] definition, self-awareness is "the acquired ability to imagine oneself in the future".](/claim/claim_da5a07b46ea4.md) _(sense: Self-awareness as the acquired ability to imagine oneself in the future, graded)_
- [[Hod Lipson's self-modeling] definition allows for a continuum of self-awareness levels, depending on the horizon and fidelity of the self-…](/claim/claim_e29469d35d08.md) _(sense: Self-awareness as the acquired ability to imagine oneself in the future, graded)_
- [The distinction between awareness and consciousness is frequently blurred or they [awareness and consciousness] are used as synonyms.](/claim/claim_f4669bf82078.md) _(sense: Synonym of consciousness)_