Sentences with phrase «conscious experience only»

These occasions would contribute to conscious experience only when they were positively prehended by the presiding conscious occasion.

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Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.

They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature of conscious centers competing for control of the organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly by the members of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.

By this distinction of two modes of passivity — of receiving forms - Aristotle sets off the world of conscious experience from the world of nature, but in such a way that not only the objects but the very workings of nature are included as part of what is felt.

More precisely, from a Whiteheadian standpoint, we should say that, if God is loving, then we all feel this, at some level, all the time, so that the only extraordinary feature of mystical experiences is that in them this feeling of the holy rises to the level of conscious awareness.

The subject - object structure, as he himself indicates, stands out clearly only in the upper reaches of conscious experience.

I experience God only in terms of his primordial satisfaction, not in terms of his consequent experience, and hence not in terms of my past self as conscious in God.

If the Dr. acted in secret and successfully covered his tracks, then he alone would be the only agent to have a conscious experience of his actions.

Only during the last two have I been made conscious of the fact that a Holocaust survivor is a distinctive kind of person, not just one who underwent a special experience, but almost a person sui generis — because the Holocaust itself was sui generis.

Basically, his solution takes the form of distinguishing two different levels of human experience, or of more or less conscious thinking about experience, on only the deeper of which is there an experience of God that is both direct and universal.

The distinction Hartshorne insists on making here as applied to our present question can be expressed by saying that, whereas mere experience or feeling of God can be not only direct but immediate, high - level thought or cognition of God, being mediated, as it is, by the conscious judgment or interpretation of such feeling, is of necessity mediate.

At any rate, one thing is certain: only an experience of «the inclusive something» as «an inclusive experience» and hence the conscious realization that this is all it can be could possibly warrant the claim that it is «the model of all experiences.»

As explained in chapter two, Hartshorne regards human conscious experience as our only reliable key to unlock the mysteries of reality.

Thus human conscious experience is our only reliable key to unlock the mysteries of reality.

«We can only discuss experiences which have entered into conscious analysis» (PR 179/273).

This experience «can be used to include not only human and amoebic experience, conscious or non-conscious as the case may be, but also non-conscious taking account of the environment which characterizes molecular, atomic and quantum events as well» (LL 131).

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

The chiasm enacted through physical feelings not only remains beneath the level of conscious experience, but also below that of clear, sharp sensory perception in feelings of presentational immediacy.

But there is likewise no significant influence from Dewey, and James enters in only with respect to Whitehead's approval of his views on the nature of conscious experience.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

Because an actual occasion is merely a drop of experience, we are generally conscious only of groups of actual occasions, or nexus (plural of nexus).

Only by a process of physical and conceptual «prehensions,» «feelings» and «experiences» — through several levels of increasing awareness — do we arrive at a final resolution in acts of self - cognition and conscious purpose.13 In other words, Whitehead believed that conscious and purposive acts are the tip of a «prehensive» iceberg that remains below the level of consciousness, yet participates in every moment of concrescence, resulting in novelty and creativity in an evolving universe.

Conscious knowledge is only a small, surely not the most important part of experience.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

Besides this, the preservation of the world in God can hardly be conceived within the scope of Suchocki's interpretation, 45 and she explicitly bars any possibility that such a preserved world could influence worldly entities: «I experience God only in terms of his primordial satisfaction, not in terms of his consequent experience, and hence not in terms of my past self as conscious in God» (WR 9).

A great many of the responses to Bell assume that there is only one right way to think about the destiny of people who do not put their trust in Christ in this life: they will experience eternal, conscious punishment in hell.

Its co-founders, Sean Kelly and Andy Mackensen, attribute this growth not only to HUMAN's successful business model — which has ensured that its operators and locations experience unparalleled success - but also to its conscious culture, which has inspired social entrepreneurs around the world.

When I corresponded with the public (and we got a fair number of emails every week), I tried to be conscious of the fact that I was representing not only the organization, but in some sense the environmental movement itself — if someone had a bad experience with us, it could easily color their perception of our issues and of other groups working on them.

The practice of mindfulness and conscious walking bring a state of deep relaxation that can only be experienced in the absence of mental chatter.

In my experience, that's only if you are not conscious of your spending.

Only by doing so can these experiences by assimilated into conscious awareness, into what the child already knows of the world.

Imago Therapy has not only humbled me into the realization that I hold the key to my happiness in my relationship, but that a conscious love relationship allows both connection and individuation, so that each partner can experience the beauty of the connection while also enjoying personal freedom and responsibility.