Sentences with phrase «experience of conscious thought»

What robots can never have, which humans have, argues Bringsjord, is phenomenological consciousness: «the first - hand experience of conscious thought», as Justin Hart of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, puts it.

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Near - death studies are about the best we have and anecdotally I think that many people do report «conscious» experience whether that's due to anoxia or otherwise there is no substantial evidence suggesting the absence of «consciousness.»

And it is conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is thought by some to do), but comes within the field of awareness where the man can «know» it as he knows any other fact of experience.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

Though it has been done, it is philosophical stupidity to deny either that we experience spatially extended objects or that we experience ourselves as active conscious centers of feeling, experience, thought, intention, attention, volition, desire, emotion, satisfaction, etc..

The stream of human conscious experience and creative activity (the human mind or soul) has one vitally important property in process thought that it does not have in Cartesian metaphysics: it is spatially (as well as temporally) extended.

By psychic phenomena I understand all immediately «given» conscious experiences, that is to say, sensations, mental images, feelings, thoughts and processes of volition.

When we take conscious experience as our basis for understanding what experience is, we think of receiving and responding to stimuli from the body and the environment, of emotion, purpose, and thought, of the significant organization of data and the influencing of action.

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.

Illusion is now thought to be omnipresent in definite, conscious perceptual experience — yet the dichotomy between physical objects and illusions was introduced to express observable differences within the field of conscious perception.

Nevertheless, despite the wonder of this prophetic vision, as we read the New Testament we may sometimes be conscious of a vast and timeless energy confined within the thought - forms and restricted knowledge of the first century A.D. Today the experience, knowledge and responsibility of every thinking man is very much greater than that of most of the men of New Testament days.

I explained the phenomena as partly due to explicitly conscious processes of thought and will, but as due largely also to the subconscious incubation and maturing of motives deposited by the experiences of life.

Thus, when we think of reality as consisting of moments of experience, we are conscious that reality is always becoming.

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.

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.

A conscious field plus its object as felt or thought of plus an attitude towards the object plus the sense of a self to whom the attitude belongs — such a concrete bit of personal experience may be a small bit, but it is a solid bit as long as it lasts; not hollow, not a mere abstract element of experience, such as the «object» is when taken all alone.

«On the contrary, I think that we need to come to terms with fear because the conscious feeling of fear is a key part of human experience and an important factor in psychopathology.

The intrusive thoughts you may experience throughout the day or before bed illustrate the disconcerting fact that many of the functions of the mind are outside of conscious control.

By giving children the tools that help them tap into their creativity, harness a sense of personal agency, and in effect, personalize their own experience, we are teaching resilience, critical thinking, and helping them to develop a conscious knowledge of self that will carry them far.

Psychology is referred to as the science of behaviour and mind, embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experiences as well as thoughts.

However, flexing the muscle of an affirmation with the conscious expression of your own words, thoughts and experiences is a transformative thing.

Respecting the need for confidentiality, empathy, honesty and humor, I encourage the exploration of conscious and unconscious thoughts / feelings and help to identify how significant past experiences have influenced the present.

I think about my clients and their experiences from a psychodynamic framework; meaning that I believe that the problems clients face are rooted in both current and past relational experiences as well as in feelings outside of conscious awareness.

IT WOULD BE MY PRIVILEGE TO HELP YOU TO LEARN: * Get into your heart * Quiet your mind * Organize your thinking * Experience «Being Present» * Be real with yourself and others * Get comfortable with discomfort * View challenges as opportunities to grow * Get clear on what is happening inside of you * Learn to be centered and calm during turmoil * Accept «what is» without resisting, in order to feel peace * Become aware of your feelings without getting lost in them * Feel more comfortable about facing fears and the unknown * Step out of your thoughts and view them from a calm place inside * Learn to take clear, conscious action steps in life that are guided by your inner wisdom.