So, consciousness is part of RS and part of psychology. This is not an entirely recent idea — over time a wide range of philosophical, religious and psychological thinkers have attempted to narrow down what this elusive ‘thing’ called consciousness really is.
The first person to use the word consciousness in its modern sense of wakefulness with subjective experience was John Locke in 1678. Before that time, the word had existed but it had been used to mean awareness among other people — meaning knowledge of something. Since John Locke’s time, the usage we are familiar with has remained.
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