Because much of our moral and legal system is based on
protecting conscious entities, we need to answer the question of who is conscious to make responsible judgments.
The survival of this family as a self -
conscious entity through forty centuries would be enough in itself to make the Jews a unique people.
- the sun is regarded as
a conscious entity whose worship has been «cast out by today's dominant religion».
«When
a conscious entity dies,» Nahum says, «all of what's embodied in it can not just simply disappear.
Physicists have dreamed up some bizarre ideas over the years, but a decade or so ago they outdid themselves with the concept of Boltzmann brains — fully formed,
conscious entities that form spontaneously in outer space.
Li's vision is a post-human, non-carbon world where water itself has become a living,
conscious entity.
They are not
a conscious entity.