Following Kant's terminology Rickert designates the epistemological subject "consciousness in general", that is, a "nameless, generic, impersonal consciousness" (Rickert 1921a, 42).
The latter I seem to remember was part of a trade mark dispute, so I'm not sure where having it be acknowledged by the Oxford Dictionary as a generic term in the public consciousness leaves it now.
At times, the moralizing aesthete came close to self-parody: "If we understand morality in the singular, as a generic decision on the part of consciousness, then it appears that our response to art is 'moral' insofar as it is, precisely, the enlivening of our sensibility and consciousness," and so on.
As well as generic arguments about the connections among consciousness, neural activity, and behavior, a considerable amount of scientific research directed towards understanding particular conscious states uses animals as proxies for humans.
In this generic form, such theories do not provide any particular obstacles to attributing consciousness to animals, given that animals and humans are built upon the same biological, chemical, and physical principles.
Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that visual communication is replacing text, but that's forced users to either use generic emoji out of convenience or deal with the chore and self-consciousness of shooting a quick photo or video.
A third generic objection is that higher-order approaches cannot really explain the distinctive properties of phenomenal consciousness (Chalmers 1996; Siewert 1998; Levine 2006).
In the canonical literature the term that most often translates as consciousness (vijñāna) is synonymously used for designating 'mind' or the 'life principle' in the most generic sense of those terms.
Cardiovascular instability, reduced consciousness, persistent hypothermia, and sepsis all contributed to a poorer outcome, as has been demonstrated before, but a generic outcome predictor model was shown to be useful in this group of patients.
