Sentences with phrase «phenomenon of human consciousness»

Just because science hasn't explained the genesis of life, or the phenomenon of human consciousness, or even how the big bang banged — it doesn't mean that it will never do so in the future.

, the genesis of life, and the phenomenon of human consciousness.

The «First Meditation» is essentially an examination of the phenomena of human consciousness, an examination repeated and refined by all phenomenologists and, as we have seen in section II, by Whitehead with his subjectivist principle.

Not exact matches

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

While in one sense it is correct to identify this consciousness and experience as a human phenomenon, in another sense it is not; for a total vision, or a quest for it, must negate and oppose every isolated and particular expression of experience, and therefore it must set itself against everything which is given or immediately present to us as consciousness or experience.

We would be gravely mistaken to understand this phenomenon as somehow obsolete, as a sort of infantile stage in the development of human consciousness.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

In the last fifty thousand years, after twenty billion years of evolution in the cosmos and four billion years of evolution on Earth, the evolutionary beat brought forth the remarkable phenomena of human mind and consciousness.

Instead it is something that explores the phenomena of consciousness and challenges the meaning of human intuition — you know, as you do.

The Turing Test is a first person puzzler that explores the phenomena of consciousness and challenges the meaning of human intuition.

the phenomena of consciousness and challenges the meaning of human intuition — you know, as you do.