Consciousness is a difficult concept for theorists, psychologists, neurologists, and philosophers to define. One neurologist, Antonio Damasio, attempted to define consciousness as "the special features that exist in the mind that permit us to know that we ourselves exist and that things around us exist" (Ettinger, 2018, p.211).

How do you interpret this quote? What "special features" can you recognize that allow you to know that you and the things around you exist?

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