What is consciousness?
Consciousness (from Latin conscius, meaning "conscientious", and ago, meaning "to think") refers to the experience of awareness, feelings, thoughts, perception, imagination, decision-making, voluntariness, selfhood, memory, identity, and agency. It is characterized by the ability to interact with the environment and oneself in a flexible and adaptable way, allowing for new experiences and knowledge to be formed through interaction with the world.

There are many different schools of thought on what exactly constitutes consciousness, but there seems to be agreement that it involves some form of experience or activity of the mind or soul that can occur independently of any physical stimulus or outside influence. Some philosophers have even gone as far as to argue that consciousness is not something that can be reduced to physical processes, but rather an intrinsic property of reality itself.