But this much is clear: those factors found on the most basic
level of conscious experience are precisely those that he attributes to the world at large.
But in ultimate reality all conventional experience is time - limited in and out of awareness — a mere
flash of conscious experience and no solid or permanent thing - being.
Much of our conscious experience is «subjectively objective,» or guided and shaped by external things: Sausage - eating experiences are shaped by sausages, and driving - to - church experiences are mediated through the car and structured by the road.
In this way, the recent past and the momentary present, the recession of the old and the recurrence of the new, form the boundaries of a virtual duration that is the
theatre of conscious experience.
By this distinction of two modes of passivity — of receiving forms - Aristotle sets off the
world of conscious experience from the world of nature, but in such a way that not only the objects but the very workings of nature are included as part of what is felt.
The
stream of conscious experience and synthetic activity is the dominant society of actual occasions in human (and animal) bodies, being influenced by subordinate organic processes in those bodies, then influencing them in turn in an ongoing dialectic of causality and creativity.
The belief that God acted became a part of the conscious, conceptual structure, but the action itself stood outside the
sphere of conscious experience and was looked on as past and future rather than present.
By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the
determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.
Although this may not be an extreme form of materialism, since it does not flatly deny the
occurrence of conscious experience, by rejecting any role of such experience, it comes close enough for me to use the label.
He said that a person is a
series of conscious experiences, and that for the one who trusts and follows Jesus, death itself has no power to interrupt this life, for Jesus said that the one who trusts in him will not taste death.
Researchers also tested the
validity of conscious experiences using objective markers for the first time in a large study to determine whether claims of awareness compatible with out - of - body experiences correspond with real or hallucinatory events.
His 1966 sculpture, Truro Series # 1, named for the town in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Huebler spent his summers, demonstrates this early interest in time and location as structural
paradigms of the conscious experience, as well as Huebler's idiosyncratic brand of humor.