Sentences with phrase «of conscious experience mere»

The evidence indicates that in the growth of conscious experience mere awareness is prior and primordial.

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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.

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.

From the Bergsonian perspective, Whitehead's claim that according to his «account of the World of Activity there is no need to postulate two essentially different types of Active Entities... the purely material and [those] alive with various modes of experiencing,» would entail the conclusion that the notion of «the activity of mere matter» devoid of a «conscious confrontation of memory with possibility» is an abstract limit concept.