The intellect is
required by consciousness to master materiality; it does so through fabrication and anticipation, the formal relations for these operations being derived from action.
Not exact matches
We can only show this if we can show that we have a quite different kind of
consciousness (understanding and selfreflection), which can not be explained materially and, therefore,
requires the immaterial soul, created
by God, to explain this power.
Through an innate knowledge of materiality, expressed in intellectual categories and relations,
consciousness can determine future material movement; the accuracy of this determination is furthered
by personal memory in areas that
require more than is furnished
by a common physical condition.
Again, even if what is thus apprehended is of the same kind, the distinction is great enough — has enough breadth — to
require consciousness to function
by modes that themselves appear as different in kind.
For the act of resignation faith is not
required, for what I gain
by resignation is my eternal
consciousness, and this is a purely philosophical movement which I dare say I am able to make if it is
required, and which I can train myself to make, for whenever any finiteness would get the mastery over me, I starve myself until I can make the movement, for my eternal
consciousness is my love to God, and for me this is higher than everything.
From this analysis emerged Whitehead's own interpretation of philosophy, whose job, as he saw it, was not to continue to carry further the discrimination made
by our
consciousness, but rather, conversely, Whitehead
required that philosophy connects the later abstractions of
consciousness with the original totality of experience (PR 14f.
Also, in low - grade living societies this purposive adaptation occurs quite without any
consciousness; all that is
required is that an occasion be able to incorporate some alternative for itself beyond what is supplied
by physical feelings of its past.
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Breathing more than
required by a person's metabolic rate leads to hyperventilation, followed
by dizziness, palpitations, and loss of
consciousness.
One eye is always favoured
by consciousness, while the other comes into use unconsciously when close - range precision is
required or the favoured eye obstructed.