Sentences with phrase «determined by consciousness»

As we have seen, the philosophy of mental causation teaches that experience is determined by consciousness.

Today more than ever before we feel the need — and also see a greater possibility — of objectifying the problem of the subjectivity of the human being... [W] e can no longer go on treating the human being exclusively as an objective being, but we must also somehow treat the human being as a subject in the dimension in which the specifically human subjectivity of the human being is determined by consciousness.

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1830), Schleiermacher made a similar but quite different move, concentrating on the human self - consciousness, which he determined to be characterized by «the consciousness of being absolutely dependent, or, which is the same thing, of being in relation to God.»

In Whiteheadian terms agent self - consciousness could be accounted for by the self - enjoyment of the concrescence as an at least partly self - determined process.

The association on which it was based was determined by the association given to that consciousness by the external world.

Instead of believing with Hartshorne that man's convictions about the ultimate character of reality can and should be determined by allegedly neutral logical principles, the understanding here being argued is that man's thinking about God is and should be governed by a vision emerging in the context of faith, a vision that is itself decisively conditioned by its rootage in history and in the prereflective levels of consciousness.

Through an innate knowledge of materiality, expressed in intellectual categories and relations, consciousness can determine future material movement; the accuracy of this determination is furthered by personal memory in areas that require more than is furnished by a common physical condition.

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.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

We must emphasize once again that what we are calling critical consciousness is shaped primarily by what it can clearly determine to have happened in the past.

So, even when consciousness is wholly lacking, we need not posit that events are totally determined by the past.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

Portraying the individual choice to abort in this way, as a step toward freedom for the entire human race, invites women to see the sorrow they feel about their own abortions as part of a false consciousness instilled by a society determined to repress female sexuality.

Patients with suspected concussive injury are categorized as having mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI if, when they are first seen by an emergency medicine provider, they receive a score of 14 - 15 on the 15 - point Glasgow Coma Scale, which is used to determine level of consciousness based on responses to various stimuli:

Most disorders of consciousness result from head trauma, and where someone falls on the consciousness continuum is typically determined by the severity of the injury.

To determine whether inadequate responses by fellow team members may well be an unappreciated serious obstacle to successful resuscitation of athletes collapsing with cardiac arrest during competition, investigators reviewed 29 available videos from 1990 - 2017 of sudden circulatory arrest (SCA), or loss of consciousness.

All of the above continuous ECG devices are particularly useful to determine if a pet is having episodes of collapse due to arrhythmias (both from very fast rhythms or very slow rhythms) and also to help differentiate between seizures and syncope (or fainting: loss of consciousness due to reduced output by the heart) as in some circumstances these can look very similar.

Inspired by the assertion of Roland Barthes in La Chambre claire (Camera Lucida)(1980) «I have determined to be guided by the consciousness of my feelings», the works are themed around the idea of emotional affinity.

In determining the value of these damages, consideration must be given to numerous factors, including the degree of consciousness of the decedent following the accident, the severity and duration of the pain and suffering experienced by the victim, and the degree of apprehension of impending death.