Through interior domestic space and its components, Bachelard attempts to trace the manner in which the poetic image is received
in the subjective consciousness.
Consequently the event in the process of revelation is not an objective reality, it is simply a change
in the subjective consciousness of man.
They had concentrated rather on the external world in its externality and had passed over, or taken for granted, the modalities it formed
in subjective consciousness.
Not exact matches
(PR 130) Yet this is puzzling, for
consciousness is a feature of the
subjective forms of at least some phases of some concrescences, and the
subjective forms of earlier phases of concrescence can not be simply eliminated
in later phases, of which the satisfaction of course is last.
In Farley's case the circle is broken by introducing a
subjective construal of habitus, and hence of theology, as a mode of
consciousness.
In the case of the woman strolling beside the Empire State Building on lunch break, one might say that whereas God does not convey to her the information that there is in fact a piano falling her way, he could shoot into her consciousness via subjective aim an awareness of the possibility that a piano just might be falling her wa
In the case of the woman strolling beside the Empire State Building on lunch break, one might say that whereas God does not convey to her the information that there is
in fact a piano falling her way, he could shoot into her consciousness via subjective aim an awareness of the possibility that a piano just might be falling her wa
in fact a piano falling her way, he could shoot into her
consciousness via
subjective aim an awareness of the possibility that a piano just might be falling her way.
Consciousness is found chiefly
in the
subjective form of intellectual feelings, and «intellectual feelings,
in their primary function, are concentration of attention involving increase of importance» (PR 416).
If my past self was conscious, then it is now conscious
in God, since
consciousness is part of the
subjective form being reenacted, 7 but it is the
consciousness of that past self, not my present self.
But what the mind can imagine
in this primitive and picture — like manner does not exhaust our
subjective repertoire; a neglected form, prominent within private
consciousness, is of primary importance to our question.
(3) The Demands of Logic: The materialistic philosophy of nature fails to take into account not only our experience of
subjective consciousness and the modern revolution
in physics.
Including the
subjective immediacy, this «objective» immortality also includes
consciousness in those cases where
consciousness is the
subjective form of immediacy.
He wrote (p. 267, my translation): «The world is a richly varied configuration of interdependent qualities; some of these are given factors
in my (or another's)
consciousness, and I call these
subjective or psychic, others are not directly given to any
consciousness and these I term objective or extramental — the concept of the psychical does not arise
in this connection.»
In the marital act, moreover, husband and wife do not use their bodies as instruments to provide them with
subjective states of
consciousness but rather respect their bodies as intrinsic to themselves as bodily persons.
Secondly, conceptual feelings, apart from complex integration with physical feelings, are devoid of
consciousness in their
subjective forms.»
By
subjective immortality I mean that the
subjective feeling (which
in persons includes
consciousness) is retained
in God.
This experience may
in some way be connected with an event of revelation, and it may be necessary first to extract the distinctive Christian self -
consciousness, but that does not make it any the less
subjective.
Is the history recorded
in the New Testament just a vague reality which underlies the Christian
consciousness, the contours of which can no longer be recovered, or is it not rather the event par excellence, quite apart from our
subjective consciousness?
Myth therefore employs
subjective means derived from the human imagination to describe a reality which utterly transcends
consciousness, and which possesses an objective validity
in its own right, quite apart from its effects on the disciples and witnesses.
Accordingly, the primary experience of receiving with emotional and purposive
subjective form the causal influence of other actualities tends to be only dimly illuminated
in consciousness precisely because it is primary.
That this first step is an error is indicated by Searle himself
in his allusion to the bipolar (private and public) character of conscious awareness, which prompts one to ask whether most scientific approaches to the problem of
consciousness are vitiated at the outset by a failure to leave open the possibility of an indissociable bipolarity
in key ideas (such as public - private,
subjective - objective, and body - mind).
«
Consciousness» for Whitehead has a more restricted use applying to the
subjective form of particular types of intellectual feelings; thus something much broader
in Whitehead's conceptuality must be found.
In a recent survey of research in this area, John Searle suggests that the task of banishing mystery from consciousness depends on finding a way to explain that aspect of subjective experience that he calls «qualitative feels.&raqu
In a recent survey of research
in this area, John Searle suggests that the task of banishing mystery from consciousness depends on finding a way to explain that aspect of subjective experience that he calls «qualitative feels.&raqu
in this area, John Searle suggests that the task of banishing mystery from
consciousness depends on finding a way to explain that aspect of
subjective experience that he calls «qualitative feels.»
The awareness of intuitive realization of the
subjective immediacy of concrescence then is the awareness of the energetic force present
in all existents and as such serves the same ontological function as
consciousness in Aurobindo.
Similarly, there is no need to posit that human beings have
consciousness (
in the sense of
subjective experience of qualia) or free will (some sort of influence that is neither random nor deterministic), yet most atheists believe
in both (even your venerable Richard Dawkins has affirmed belief
in free will).
Nothing is more likely to help a person overcome and endure objective difficulties or
subjective troubles than the
consciousness of having a task
in life.»
Both kinds of feelings are pre-reflectively meaningful because, for Whitehead, reflective, judgmental
consciousness is only one «
subjective form» of feelings, which is possibly present
in the final phase of some concrescences.
Instead of the contents of
consciousness being treated as the
subjective counterparts of objects
in external space, Whitehead treats them as the residue resulting from natural transmutation processes that occur within that space.
In contemporary biology
subjective aspects of life such as
consciousness, purpose and free will are either ignored or else attempts are made to reduce the
subjective to the objective.
In May, researchers in Sydney, Australia, suggested that the main part of the insect nervous system works in a similar way to a mammal's midbrain, and might provide the capacity for the most basic form of consciousness, subjective experienc
In May, researchers
in Sydney, Australia, suggested that the main part of the insect nervous system works in a similar way to a mammal's midbrain, and might provide the capacity for the most basic form of consciousness, subjective experienc
in Sydney, Australia, suggested that the main part of the insect nervous system works
in a similar way to a mammal's midbrain, and might provide the capacity for the most basic form of consciousness, subjective experienc
in a similar way to a mammal's midbrain, and might provide the capacity for the most basic form of
consciousness,
subjective experience.
The boundary between an objective «world out there» and our own
subjective consciousness that seemed so clearly defined
in physics before the eerie discoveries of the 20th century blurs
in quantum mechanics.
In the jargon of philosophy, these intuitions we have about whether a creature or thing is capable of feelings or
subjective experiences — such as the experience of seeing red or tasting a peach — are called «intuitions about phenomenal
consciousness.»
His insight, plain perhaps to us
in our post-Freudian age but startling
in its time, was that the
subjective «I» was a construct, a useful fiction — something he'd deduced from the fact that the mind could observe itself at work, which suggested to him that
consciousness itself, far from being straightforward, was faceted.
Lauren Scavo's small - scale charcoal drawings examine the connection that exists between human
consciousness and its surrounding environment, specifically the way
in which our sensory experience of a place influences our
subjective interpretation of...
Mind,
in the
subjective experience of it,
consciousness and information processing, can be some emergent property of energy and information flow.
Certainly, human
subjective experience -
consciousness - everyday language is filled mainly with nonsensical, magical statements - thus, meaningless
in terms of behavior.
Though traditional models of therapy described some aspects of a
subjective system of «mind,» recent advancements
in studies of
consciousness, mindfulness, and emotion have greatly expanded views of the complex and interactive nature of the mind.