Because much of our moral and legal system is based on protecting conscious entities, we need to answer the question of who is conscious to make responsible judgments. (discovermagazine.com)
The survival of this family as a self - conscious entity through forty centuries would be enough in itself to make the Jews a unique people. (religion-online.org)
Subjectively speaking, one's identity is one's awareness of oneself as a separate conscious entity. (faith.org.uk)