Question

Consciousness is a defining property of living being but in some cases human being lost their consciousness(coma) for a certain tym or until their death In that tym they will not respond to any thing else going around them so how can we define consciousness as a defining property....? They meaning of consciousness is to respond to a stimuli then in coma no body will respond then how it can be a refining property

Answer 1

With reference to human being it is self consiousness, that is consious of himself......... unique to human beings.... and octopus.