Sentences with phrase «making conscious experience»

As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: «Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.»

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Insofar as the experience of this self has been made conscious, it fails to provide the process thinker with the desired immediate and authoritative access to the essence of experience.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

To learn from the pine tree or from the bamboo in a conscious way is to make effective a kind of «nonobjective knowing» that has been implicit in our experience throughout, and that is central to our true identity (p. 163).

Although «experience» and «feeling» are not necessarily conscious events in Whitehead's philosophy, the use of «private experiences,» «percept,» and especially the fact that the man reports his experience, all make it seem evident that the experiences and feelings mentioned in the above passage are conscious.

As Ross points out, «Whitehead's examples of causal efficacy in conscious experience are a light flash and the agent's claim that «the flash made me blink» (PR 175).

Indeed, finally, for Whiteheadians, the events that make up nature are all occurrences of experience, albeit most of them are not conscious.

It is for the teacher to convey the difference within the framework; he or she does this by making conscious allowances for the student to experience all three stages.

Assuming that I make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required by a single experience (and this because my experience includes both the clear, conscious experience of the regnant society and the dim experience of other members of the nonsocial nexus); or, my experience is that of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the other occasions of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes acceptance of a doctrine of regional inclusion.

The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual individual with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the body).

Suppose, then, that we begin our description of the natural world by making explicit what it means to be an experiencing, conscious subject.

In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days of the Civil War, we find a level of experience which does the seemingly impossible of making us firm in the right, «as God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»

To a large extent my conscious decisions are made on the basis of memories of past conscious experiences and anticipations of future ones.

Only during the last two have I been made conscious of the fact that a Holocaust survivor is a distinctive kind of person, not just one who underwent a special experience, but almost a person sui generis — because the Holocaust itself was sui generis.

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.

The experience of the first rite of passage for the women clergy I have talked with varies from the male experience in the following ways: The young woman is likely to have a similar inner experience of a mystical «call,» or in some other way feel led to make a conscious decision to train for the ministry.

In his letter of December 10, 1934 Brightman shares Hartshorne's worry, «that other selves are merely inferred but never given,» and goes on to present his own empiricist colors «I'd like to be able to make sense out of the idea of a literal participation in other selves... whenever I try, I find myself landed in contradiction, in epistemological chaos, and in unfaithfulness to experience...» Brightman's argument is that any «intuition» (for him a synonym for «experience»), «is exclusively a member of me,» but the object of that intuition is «always problematic and distinct from the conscious experience which refers to it.»

There is a self - conscious use of archetypes from other genres that contributes to making Star Wars such an enjoyable experience.

It would seem that this sudden transfer of control of behaviour from a lower to a higher level of the hierarchy — analogous to a quantum jump — is the essence of conscious decision - making and of the subjective experience of free will.

What happens in a crisis, or in any less dramatic problem situation involving unexpected, puzzling or discordant experiences, is this sudden shift of control of an ongoing activity to a higher level in the many - leveled hierarchy, from a semi-automatic to a more conscious performance, because the decision to be made or the problem to be solved is beyond the competence of the automatic pilot and must be referred to higher quarters.

Descartes, Whitehead maintains, made a most important philosophical advance when he «laid down the principle, that those substances which are the subjects enjoying conscious experiences provide the primary data for philosophy, namely, themselves as in the enjoyment of such experience.

When mistakes are made, animals can sometimes endure this harrowing experience whilst conscious.

The fact that you «get that» and are so understanding and conscious of the myriad of people who won't get to attend makes me hope that you squeeze every ounce of pleasure from the experience mate!

At the same time, this experience can be freeing and empowering to be awakened and to make a conscious decision about changing family legacies and making a difference in the world.

But by making a conscious choice to acknowledge what is actually happening in the present moment without getting lost in judgment or wishing things were different, we can meet the waves of our experience with more openness and compassion.

I made a conscious effort to sit back and let me kids experience the world, good and bad, for themselves.

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A Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekwow Spio - Garbrah has asked educational institutions to make conscious efforts to tap into the rich expertise and experiences of their alumni in making career choices and counselling of students.

And she noted that a colleague at her first city government job in 1987 made $ 5,000 more than her despite the fact that they were in the same divisions and had the same title because «he had family to take care of» — an experience that made her more conscious of pay equity issues as an elected official.

Rather than posting a verbal idea in our conscious minds («I have to wait until the meeting on Friday»), experiential memory makes use of somatic markers, emotions or physical sensations that inform us about a situation based on past experiences or feelings.

As such, executive function is integral to our conscious experience of the world as prior knowledge is integrated into the current «state of play» to make predictions about likely future events.

These are some of our favorite brands making beauty and self - care a more conscious experience.

Exhaustion Cure: Extend Your Exhalations If you make a conscious effort to deepen your breathing, says Weil, «you'll sleep better, gain more control over your moods, experience less fatigue, and have better energy overall.»

Changes in body odor can make the menopausal women experiencing them very self - conscious.

In my experience, as Mike indicated, those who benefit from eating breakfast are those who also make other health conscious decisions such as working out regularly and exercising proper portion control.

Here are eight top tips for making your holiday shopping a more conscious, less consumer - driven experience.

So in order for positive experiences to have a long standing impact on us, we must make a conscious effort to focus on them.

In order for positive experiences to have a long standing impact on us, we must make a conscious effort to focus on them.

During the interview, Hooper talked about if he felt any pressure following up Les Miserables and The Kings Speech, the experience of making a film about transgender issues when the subject is so timely, when he first realized Redmayne and Vikander would deliver such tremendous performances, deleted scenes, how his first cut compared to the finished film, if he's conscious of making «awards» films and whether he want to break out of that, future projects, and so much more.

To assemble this list of best new filmmakers to watch, a conscious effort was made to shed light on a variety of filmmakers — women and men alike, from a wide range of experiences.

His script, written with Vanessa Taylor, makes a conscious effort here to focus on Eliza and her experience, generally leaving much of the mystery on the outskirts of the proceedings.

The 35 - year - old Hollywood actor plays the role of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistle - blower who is currently living in exile in Russia, and has admitted that his experience on set has made him more conscious of privacy issues.

Through experiencing everyday life in different ways, students become more conscious deliberators, pausing to see all sides of an argument before making a judgement or decision.

The solution for teachers is to make the conscious decision to communicate and collaborate with students, including them in the planning and decision - making of the learning experiences based on Readiness, Interests, and Learning Preferences.

In an increasingly virtual, convenience - driven, safety - conscious and arguably desinsidtised world, people will alway search for authentic, intense and meaningful experiences - the dominance of fast food doesn't diminish the number of people who care about their cooking and eating experience, the ányplace, anywhere» availability of digital music streams and downloads has made vinyl record sales thrive and the likes of Singer, Eagle E-types, Morgan are making hay from established OEMs not being able or willing to deliver the full flavour experience (except for a tiny number of limited edition Porsches that no one can buy at list price anyway and get sold at inflated collector prices as a result.

This way, you'll be able to see hotels that offer similar experiences but at different price points, letting you make the most budget - conscious choice.

«Our partnership with ME to WE provides travelers with culturally rich and socially conscious travel experiences so that we can expose travelers to a tourism experience that makes a positive impact.»

I want to make games that even when you evaluate them with your conscious mind, you're happy about the experiences you had with them.

In all of his work, experience is inextricably linked to self - conscious processes of perception, the connection of the eye and mind seamlessly sealed but made evident.»

Weil made conscious formal decisions to convey the texture of each community's experience while also respecting their dignity and insularity.