# Autonoetic consciousness --- # # Definition From the [Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour, 2010](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/autonoetic-consciousness): > Autonoetic consciousness is the capacity to recursively introspect on one’s own subjective experience through time, that is, to perceive the continuity in one’s identity from the past to the present and into the future. --- Autonoetic consciousness represents human’s ability to mentally travel through time and space, and represents a form of self-awareness through [[Memory, episodic|episodic memory]]. It is derived from the term [[Noetic]], of Greek origin. --- # # Notes - First read about this concept in [[oconnor2019WayfindingScienceMystery]]. O’Connor suggests this is related to our ability for navigation and [[Wayfinding]]. ```dataview list file.inlinks where file = this.file ```