What Consciousness is Not: What is Consciousness?

While the following topics are related, to equate them with consciousness can lead to confusion:
- Brain activity or mental processes
- Awareness
- The conscious mind
- Transpersonal psychology (the psychology of spirituality and meaning)
- Parapsychology (the study of ESP, mind-matter interaction and consciousness survival after bodily death)
- “Paranormal” phenomena such as psi and telepathy
- Techniques such as hypnosis, meditation and lucid dreaming
- Conscience (an inner feeling of right or wrong)