Consciousness
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Consciousness is a unique quality of humans - it is the quality of being self-aware, and rising above one's baser animal instincts. Grappling with the question of consciousness - why is humanity conscious, and no other species? - is an important question in philosophy and religion. Creationists believe that, on account of the creation story, consciousness is God's gift to man, since we are made in His image.