AWARENESS, Jithin Jose

If you look up the word "awareness" in any general dictionary, you will find the only listing is as "self-awareness" (meaning "an awareness of one's own personality or individuality"). However, if you look up the word "aware", a much wider meaning is listed, namely "having or showing realization, perception, or knowledge". There not usually existing a general listing of "awareness" as a unique listing, we define it to mean "unique perception and/or knowledge of self and all". The first part of awareness is as unique perception of knowledge. Examples of knowledge are science, history, society, economics, mathematics, languages and religion.

Therefore in one sense to say a person "has greater awareness", it can mean they have greater knowledge of such subjects.  In contrast, unique perception of self or all does not require great knowledge of science, only of what a person is "feeling". Unique perception is completely subjective.  There are some words that are especially related to this aspect of awareness as they are most commonly used to mean the same thing. These are: Mind, Consciousness, Ethereal, Ether, Being and Self. Unique perception of all is considered a "higher" form of awareness and is a basic concept associated with ideas such as meditation, astral travel, telepathy, spiritual channeling and healing. The rational reason that awareness is not usually listed as an independent object in the dictionary is not because the concept does not exist, but because the concept does not exist in reality. The only evidence of awareness is self-aware lifeforms such as the human being and other higher-order species on planet Earth. There is simply no evidence awareness existing independent of a living thing. Even though awareness as an independently existing quality is considered impossible, it still exists as a theoretical idea.
Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something. In biological psychology, awareness is defined as a human's or an animal's perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event.

Awareness is a relative concept. An animal may be partially aware, may be subconsciously aware, or may be acutely aware of an event. Awareness may be focused on an internal state, such as a visceral feeling, or on external events by way of sensory perception. Awareness provides the raw material from which animals develop qualia, or subjective ideas about their experience.