Consciousness means being aware of yourself and your surroundings. It's that feeling of being awake and having thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. It's what makes us feel alive and differentiates us from things that don't have thoughts or feelings, such as rocks or plants.
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The discovery could help to determine the state
of consciousness of people with brain damage, and how fast they might recover.
I don't feel as though it is productive to try to make caregivers feel guilty, for there level of
consciousness in only where they can be.
You mentioned that there seems to be no prospect of reducing the
human consciousness of self to any other explanatory level.
Not that it will necessarily have the same kind of
consciousness as humans: it is unlikely to be wondering who it is, for instance.
Hidden guilt feelings are brought
into consciousness by being in the setting which represents the highest ideals of one's group.
In medicine, we use drugs to cause loss of
consciousness for the purpose of performing procedures.
I came away from this little experiment in social
consciousness with an unexpectedly profound revelation and more questions.
But even though sharks may disappear from the
collective consciousness for another year, that doesn't mean they'll cease to exist.
It is by getting lost in rivalry with competing interests that prayer slips out of life, and disappears
from consciousness by the back door.
For too long, librarians were defined in the public
consciousness by the place in which you work.
The person may immediately lose
consciousness which can last from a few seconds up to many months.
Anyone who did not
regain consciousness within a few weeks after a stroke or head injury was said to have no hope for meaningful improvement.
All I can say is I wish I could put that
high consciousness into a bottle and always keep it with me!
Today, consumers demand increasing
environmental consciousness from their food manufacturers and expect them to act in an ethical and eco-friendly way.
I had no idea that in 7 years I would become a Yoga teacher, nor that I would experience such a transformation and shift in
consciousness through that journey.
The present state of the world seems to me to be substantially determined and explained by the influence of two progressive changes affecting human
consciousness at the deepest level.
There is a kind of logic operative in promise and hope that seems to resist
critical consciousness as we usually understand it.
But the prophet, as distinct from both priest and sage, received his revelation deep in his
own consciousness by means that for him were genuinely supernatural.
The task therefore is not to fight religion but, more clearly stated here than before, to set up a society in which
religious consciousness will die out.
I experienced these issues not as a series of alternating commitments but as an
expanding consciousness of the present human social dilemma.
Considering technology as being an extension of body, mind and perception, she possesses a sharp
political consciousness about the role, psychology and aesthetics of these media forms.
It is a state of
consciousness when the mind is free from scattered thoughts and various patterns.
So, for the purpose of talking about the work, I am going to assume this collective cultural
consciousness does exist in this way.
«This is a chance to elevate
global consciousness about the challenges that we face now,» he told reporters.
But the fact, the great historical fact, still to be set forth in all its details and turned into
cultural consciousness, is that science owes its very birth to that dogma.
This transformation in
health consciousness also includes new perspectives in diet, lifestyle, emotional and spiritual development, and complementary health care.
Its creators say this feat means we are closer to understanding
where consciousness comes from.
Through the form of a mystical quest the artist creates a relationship
between consciousness and all that exists outside of it.
An excellent book for anyone who wants to bring
more consciousness into the way they work and improve their effectiveness and the way others respond to them.
More than 40 years after Title IX greatly expanded the opportunities for female athletes, the gender pay gap in sports is in the public
consciousness like never before.
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