It means being aware of ourselves as thinking beings, knowing what we are doing and why. Certainly in being conscious we are aware of what we are thinking, feeling, and doing. When you enter a rage you lose most of your control and mental capacity. Your knowledge of what you are doing, and why, is temporarily suspended due to the intensity of your emotional outpouring. Also, when from any cause you are not fully conscious, you become dangerous to yourself and others.
History is full of cases where people of diminished consciousness have made tremendous errors.
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