Sentences with phrase «complex conscious experience»

Their results are even shedding light on the way our brains produce our rich and complex conscious experience.

If one accepts this doctrine, one can account for the highly complex conscious experiences of human beings in a fully non-reductionistic way, while at the same locating human beings fully in the context of the natural world.

Not exact matches

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

A decline of conscious attention, as in exhaustion, in which the figure - ground structure dissolves into a homogeneous field, illustrates that consciousness is derivative from a more complex experience, which I have located in the overwhelmingly nonconscious occasions in the «nonsocial» nexus.

I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.

Because of this, and because human experience is so complex, conscious introspection is not the best way to examine experience for its most fundamental elements.

And because consciousness is not a simple phenomenon but admits of differences, of «levels» of consciousness, of more or less complex supplemental phases, our conscious experience can be more or less temporal.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

The point being stressed here is that conscious experience is a radically new emergent in the evolutionary process, and required and still requires an extremely complex, even awe - inspiring set of conditions; and yet it emerged and still emerges out of entities which are not totally different in kind.