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    Challenges→Most vertebrates and invertebrates are conscious.

    Without higher-order representation, sensory responsiveness in invertebrates constitutes mere sentience rather than full-blooded consciousness as philosophers standardly define it.

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    Full-blooded consciousness(as used in contrasting different levels of awareness)
    Complete, genuine consciousness that includes not just sensing things but also being aware that you're sensing them.
    Invertebrates(as used in discussing consciousness)
    Animals without a backbone, like insects, worms, octopuses, and jellyfish.
    Philosophers standardly define(as used to indicate mainstream philosophical consensus)
    The typical or commonly accepted way that most philosophers use a term or concept.
    consciousness(Philosophy of mind; framing the 'What is consciousness?' question)
    A dynamic process characterized by self-transforming flow, intentional coherence, and semantic self-understanding, rather than a static or momentary state.
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    (Higher-order and self-representationalist theories of consciousness)
    A representation that targets another mental state, making that targeted state conscious by virtue of being represented.
    sentience(Bolzano's formulation of the supreme moral law)
    The capacity for experience relevant to happiness or suffering; a baseline morally relevant quality shared by all beings subject to the supreme moral law

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