Instinctive and unconscious elements continued prominent among axial peoples, but these forms of love could also contain a large element of
autonomous conscious activity.
While dualism may have been an important factor in our coming to vivid awareness of the faculty of mentality which makes us aware of our special status in the world, it has simultaneously purged nature outside of ourselves of the qualities of mind and aliveness that we experience in the subtlety of our
own conscious activity.
Ergo, our aspiration is a deliberate state of intention and the distance defining our journey is measured by the actions that move hope and vision toward existence and propelled
by conscious activity and purpose.
Since no psychic activity is fully conscious, and all are dependent on unconscious functioning, the term «
conscious activity» or «process» is misleading.
This spontaneity may be minimal for protons and electrons, but in the course of the evolutionary advance, sustained until now, it has manifested itself in ever richer forms as the vitality of living cells,
the conscious activity of the higher animals, and the self - conscious freedom of man.
Cosmology as such consists in a naive realistic ontology which is a contradiction in terms, in that, naive realism is a non-philosophical, mythopoeic posture and can not be assimilated into the philosophical perspective which of necessity is a self -
conscious activity.
We may conclude, therefore, that the notion of purpose is logically compatible with the emergent aspects of nature but that the discernment of such purpose can not be achieved by a purely scientific quest for peculiar mechanisms or unusual disturbances of the normal, lawful flow of physical, biotic and
conscious activities.
Marx saw man as «free,
conscious activity»; in other words, as «a continuous self - world creator.»
A few neurologists and brain scientists are proposing that the secret underlying
all conscious activity must lie with the way cells respond to stimuli they receive from their environment.
The brain also controls «higher» order,
conscious activities, such as thought, reasoning, and abstraction.
When you put these features together, Borjigin says, they suggest that the dying brain is hyperactive in its final seconds, producing meaningful,
conscious activity.
Those who have IBS have higher rates of other functional disorders, also called somatic disorders since they relate to the somatic nervous system — brain and
conscious activity.