Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "意识" in Chinese language version.
In defining 'consciousness' as a self-reflective act, psychology loses much of the glamour and mystery of other areas of consciousness-study, but it also can proceed on a workaday basis without becoming paralyzed in pure abstraction.
Consciousness is based on language.... Consciousness is not the same as cognition and should be sharply distinguished from it.
The basic connotative definition of consciousness is thus an analog 'I' narratizing in a functional mind-space. The denotative definition is, as it was for Descartes, Locke, and Hume, what is introspectable.