Sentences with phrase «aspects of consciousness»

The question comes from the discovery that brain areas thought to be involved in introspection and other aspects of consciousness are fully formed in newborn babies.

Work with monkeys also may elucidate some aspects of consciousness, particularly visual awareness.

At places like the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, researchers examine various aspects of consciousness to see if it functions independently of the physical brain, implying the existence of an independent life spirit.

They do not refer to the immediate, obvious, superficial aspects of consciousness, but to the deepest and most pervasive factors which determine the long - term quality of existence.

Apart from the aspect of consciousness, this sentence seems to me to contradict the difficult final paragraph of Process and Reality (PR 351).

Prouvost always interested in the automatic aspect of consciousness through psychoanalytic theory, is also addressing these issues through her drawing and painting, and presents for «C'est l'est not ouest» a series of new paintings.

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Perhaps the most important aspect of the negotiations, were that they moved the Canada - Japan trade relationship closer to the forefront of the public consciousness.

As the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.»

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

The more I ponder this mystery the more it assumes in my dreams the aspect of a «turning inward» of consciousness, an eruption of interior life, an ecstasy.

Other communication research has dealt with the power of mass media in altering our consciousness and informing our choices - the propaganda or advertising aspect of media messages (Lasswell 1927; Roloff and Miller 1980).

Yet the belief that any aspect of my given is also ours would be an additional postulate, akin to the postulate that what is totally absent from consciousness is really faintly given.

It is very true, as Capek points out (1:351 f.), that James (lid not extend, in the Psychology, his conclusions beyond the aspects of the stream of consciousness in the way Bergson did.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

The maturing of a collective consciousness accompanied by numerical expansion: these are two aspects inseparably linked in the historical unfolding of the Incarnation.

But there is a wider aspect; and at the moment I am concerned with that wider aspect, with what Whitehead styled the «secular functions» of deity, recognized as operative in the world but not necessarily the occasion for explicit religious consciousness.

As we have said, human endeavour, viewed in its natural» aspect, is tending towards some sort of collective personality, through which the individual will acquire in some degree the consciousness of Mankind as a whole.

Important and increasing areas of the existence of many individuals were dominated by this rationalized aspect of the reflective consciousness.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

Aspects of the external world appear to register on them, as in the receptive consciousness of man.

The first aspect deals with the givenness to consciousness of spacetime and how thinking separates them.

It can not be an accident, or a mere concurrence of countless misperceptions, if, after thousands of years, people of different epochs and cultures feel that they are somehow parts and partakers of the same integral Being — carrying within themselves a piece of the infinity of that Being — whose very relative aspects are not just categories of space and time, but of matter and consciousness as well.

When I hold a beautiful sunset in my consciousness, I'm experiencing a magnificent aspect of reality that is pleasurable.

The strangest aspect of Augustine's significance is that he can also be called the first modern spirit, one of the founders of modern Western consciousness.

Tillich distinguishes between two aspects of human nature: being and consciousness (Sein and Bewusstsein).

If human nature has the two aspects of «being» and «consciousness» (being and being aware), political romanticism corresponds more to the former element, socialism to the latter.

The diversity lies in the respective roles of subject and object and in the aspects of this structure that enter consciousness.

(Elements and aspects of this new consciousness, its forms and contents, can be found in the following sources: William Braden, The Age of Aquarius (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970); Charles Reich, The Greening of America (New York: Random House, 1970); Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope (New York: Bantam Books, 1968); Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966); Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1959); Ferkiss, The Technological Society; Lynn White, Jr., Machina ex Deo (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968), and Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Culture.

To understand the significance of the world forces of collectivization, and what it is that they so imperiously demand of us, we need to look down from a great height and contemplate, in their widest, most general aspect, the organic relationships linking consciousness and complexity within the Universe.

In the interest of truth, we must open the illusory aspects of our God - consciousness to the purification of critical consciousness.

It is only one aspect or «part» of consciousness, though it is that part which is most clear and distinct and, hence, most noticeable.

Of all our society's multiple revolutions, the revolution in female / male consciousness and roles will become the most earthshaking; eventually it will touch and change every aspect of man - woman relationshipOf all our society's multiple revolutions, the revolution in female / male consciousness and roles will become the most earthshaking; eventually it will touch and change every aspect of man - woman relationshipof man - woman relationships.

The other four aspects of human existence - feeling, thought, will, and consciousness - are likewise nothing more than emptiness, and emptiness nothing more than they.

The appreciation for the specific terrain and the honing of consciousness are important aspects of this maturation.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

To understand the aspects of social protest in Pulaya conversions it may be helpful to draw a fine distinction between dalit consciousness and caste consciousness.

Rejecting Cartesian dualism in favor of what he calls «dual - aspect monism,» Polkinghorne opens biology to the existence of supra - physical consciousness or spirit; and he opens physics to a reality that transcends the world of the Big Bang and the evolution of conscious life.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

In a recent survey of research in this area, John Searle suggests that the task of banishing mystery from consciousness depends on finding a way to explain that aspect of subjective experience that he calls «qualitative feels.»

If in the course of a synthesis there were consciousness of better or worse alternatives and the ability to choose either, that aspect of the choice would be a morally responsible free choice.

The story of this awakening consciousness is the most dramatic aspect of the earth story.

Certainly there is all aspect of it in our consciousness of God.

For all the beauty of ethnic, religious and racial diversities, there is a troubling aspect to the current rise of ethnic consciousness — or, as it is sometimes called, the new ethnicity — and that is the fact that it has become politicized.

The former is wholly derived from bits of the streams of consciousness of many observers and is restricted to those aspects which can be communicated.

Consciousness is sui generis an aspect of existence.

Consciousness - raising in racial and women's groups continues to emphasize the experiential aspect of oppression and the struggle against it.

The «thesis... that all interests should be organized as to function as one,» so as to be «creative of integrated experience,» while «sustaining and increasing the number of different elements or aspects of the world which enter into consciousness,» seems to adumbrate a vision of aesthetic organization of value experience (OI 3, 15).

As an individual gradually claims and develops the neglected dimensions of the unconscious and integrates these balancing aspects with consciousness, the destructiveness of the reclaimed dimensions is transformed so that they feed the creativity of the person's inner life.

One of the great aspects of the ancient East was its consciousness of the flow of time and the significance of history.

In other words, consciousness awakens in the comparison of an immediate feeling with the conceptual prehension of that feeling, which treats only certain aspects of the feeling.