Here is the unreasonable, unwelcome contradiction, the necessary fact that we hide
from consciousness because its implications run counter to the fundamentals of human morality.
Not exact matches
«Meanwhile, the masses are convinced that master's degrees and doctorates are the way to wealth, mostly
because they are trapped in the linear line of thought that holds them back
from higher levels of
consciousness... The wealthy aren't interested in the means, only the end.»
«Meanwhile, the masses are convinced that master's degrees and doctorates are the way to wealth, mostly
because they are trapped in the linear line of thought that holds them back
from higher levels of
consciousness,» he writes.
If one believes Cameron Crowe's recent PBS documentary Pearl Jam 20, then Pearl Jam has to be the whiniest band that has ever existed,
because apart
from a few good songs, their catapult - like trajectory into the national and international
consciousness ought to be the norm — or at least that is what Mr. Crowe's documentary would have you believe.
With this step
from unconsciousness to
consciousness,
from apathetic hopelessness regarding ones fate to faith in the liberating God of the poor, the quality of poverty also changes
because one's relationship to it changes.21
I hadn't really thought about it much, but I'd have to say that mostly, it's as not - God,
because daily life is so distracting; though the awareness of being immersed in God is not usually far
from my
consciousness.
That I'm the one who couldn't bear the difference in our social derivations,
because class
consciousness rises up
from below — doesn't it?
The «heightened
consciousness» might not have been so dramatic,
because society hadn't yet developed such a severe disconnect
from nature as we have today.
It is incipiently rational,
because its attention is directed to data supplied by the receptive
consciousness, and insofar as the reflective
consciousness becomes free
from the dominance of the unconscious, these data must play a larger and more direct role in their own interpretation.
Because we do not permit the quest and the questions a significant place in our
consciousness, we also fail to discern responses which,
from the side of the tradition of Jerusalem, might indeed engage those who ask, including ourselves.
It does this
because it is profoundly and accurately aware that the kind of thinking which declared Jesus Lord and Christ by his Resurrection
from the dead is a kind of thinking which is a function of the historical
consciousness of the community within which that claim was made.
A similar judgment is tendered by William Seager, who points out that if the psychological is supervenient upon the physical, it is so in a way that is crucially different
from the way in which liquidity is supervenient upon certain molecular states,
because we have no idea as to why the joint activity of insentient neurons should give rise to
consciousness (MC 179).
For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark of apparently irreconcilable views of what is vital to the place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality,
because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness of deeper, dynamic layers of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner
consciousness and an independent world apart
from inner
consciousness.
But it is misguided
from the start when Whitehead,
because of a hypothetical and procedural assumption, reduces to the concept of multiplicity that which manifests itself, both in immediate relationships and in self -
consciousness, as a primordial unity.
Consciousness does not emerge
from matter,
because everything is conscious already; what is emergent is merely the complexity of systems of interaction.
Nonetheless we human beings, precisely
because we are matter and spirit, body and soul, can not, in our very understanding of human
consciousness, prescind
from the material conditions that characterise the human condition.
The temporal point of departure is nothing; for as soon as I discover that I have known the Truth
from eternity without being aware of it, the same instant this moment of occasion is hidden in the Eternal, and so incorporated with it that I can not even find it so to speak, even if I sought it;
because in my eternal
consciousness there is neither here nor there, but only an ubique et nusquam.
In these cases, as noted above, reflective
consciousness occurs in the anticipative set
because of certain prehensions of the presently concrescing occasion of the supportive nexus which has reacted to previously received data
from the rest of its bodily — and through that, extra-bodily — environment.
Humanity is so distant
from reaching our potential and higher
consciousness because of religion.
It is difficult to explain the peak experience in terms of a simple expansion of
consciousness because the type of
consciousness exhibited in this experience seems to represent a transcendent disconnection
from the ordinary, discriminate modes of
consciousness:
The self -
consciousness of Jesus, however, is not a legitimate concern,
because we have no sources for such knowledge, and when we supply the deficiency by analogy
from other historical individuals, we are psychologizing about Jesus.
With this step
from unconsciousness to
consciousness,
from apathetic hopelessness regarding one's fate to faith in the liberating God of the poor, the quality of poverty also changes
because one's relationship to it changes.21
Sadly, Ray has, at least to some extent, faded
from the Arsenal collective
consciousness in a way that many other stars of that Double year haven't — partly I suppose
because there were just too many subsequent goals for Liverpool (each one a small dagger to my heart), and partly, and far more seriously,
because his dreadful illness impacts on his ability to travel and maintain any kind of profile.
I don't even recall most of the first few days
because I was in and out of
consciousness and mostly delirious
from the severe pre - eclampsia / eclampsia that necessitated his very early delivery.
Neuroscientists believe that
consciousness emerges
from the material stuff of the brain primarily
because even very small changes to your brain (say, by drugs or disease) can powerfully alter your subjective experiences.
Thus, the slower you eat, the less likely you will be to over-eat,
because the satiety signals
from hunger - hormones and stomach - wall - detectors will reach your
consciousness only after about 20 to 30 minutes.
This is
because, Csikszent - mihalyi explains, «as you concentrate, you clear
from your
consciousness things that bother you.
The idea behind the scene is funny,
because what can we expect
from a movie like Cop Out, which quickly establishes a nine - year partnership between two cops played by a straight - up straight man like Willis and an absurdist, stream - of -
consciousness comedian like Morgan, except the formulas and clichés to which we've become accustomed?
These Delusionscapes manifest
from delusions residents of Akiba have - usually
from one person in particular that has a strong aura for it - and exist
because of lies we tell ourselves that we eventually believe to be true, which then lead to an ominous overtaking of a person's
consciousness.
He dwelled mostly outside popular
consciousness, an invisible giant since the 1950s,
because in 1951, the same year that Leen's famous photograph was published in Life magazine, the very moment that this group of young Americans were skyrocketing to international recognition, Pousette - Dart walked away
from it all.
Many people black out, or forget the moments immediately after their t - bone collisions
because they lose
consciousness, pass out
from pain, or
because the events of the accident took place too fast to recall.
Augmented intelligence refers to the same set of technologies that comprise AI, but the term is preferred by some parties
because it steers us away
from the misconception that AI somehow replicates or substitutes for human
consciousness.
Seward states that the unconscious is kept unconscious
because of a person's inability to stay with that part of the self that feels intolerable and is subsequently split off
from consciousness.