consciousness
IPA: kˈɑnʃʌsnʌs
noun
- The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
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Examples of "consciousness" in Sentences
- Coming again, to our consideration of the term consciousness, we will take
- Tribal consciousness is _revolutionary _consciousness: mutable and fluid and transforming.
- How do different “programs,” all running at once, interact with each other to produce what we call consciousness?
- Yet, all the while, our consciousness, _so far as we are conscious of our consciousness_, was busy with other thoughts. "
- Heinz Pagels, the esteemed theoretical physicist, once stated: "If you deny the objectivity of the world, unless you observe it and are conscious of it (as many prominent physicists have), then you end up with solipsism -- the belief that your consciousness is the only one."
- It introduced into the national consciousness, Henry James wrote in 1879, by the national consciousness undoubtedly meaning his own as well, a certain sense of proportion and relation, of the world being a more complicated place than it had hitherto seemed, the future more treacherous, success more difficult
- Hereafter, then, we shall continue to use the term consciousness as descriptive of that part of our mentality which constitutes what is commonly known as the "mind"; while that mental force, which, so far as our animal life is concerned, operates through the sympathetic nerve system, we shall hereafter describe as "_sub_conscious."
- While not fully accepting the theory of "duplex personality," _i.e. _, active consciousness and _subliminal consciousness_ (Myers 'name for the pseudo-dormant consciousness), as having been proven, Newbold says: "Of all the theories developed from the point of independence, Mr. Myers' is the most comprehensive in its scope, is kept in most constant touch with what the author regards as facts, and displays the greatest philosophic insight. "[
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