Sentences with phrase «threshold of consciousness»

Subliminal means that the effect functions below the threshold of consciousness.

Neuroimaging is changing the way we are thinking about consciousness, making us revisit where the threshold of consciousness lies.»

This is the first threshold of consciousness: the human creature not only knows; he knows that he knows.

Resentment progressively lowers the threshold of consciousness, reducing experience to ever narrower spheres, or freezing a given state of consciousness by binding it to a hatred of its immediate ground.

We can not define consciousness in terms of a centralized nervous system, for there is a great deal of neurological activity lying below the threshold of consciousness.

And it is conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is thought by some to do), but comes within the field of awareness where the man can «know» it as he knows any other fact of experience.

Not exact matches

We have to expect the universe to converge in the eschatological future; there has to be a critical threshold of radical transformation in which all the complexifying personal centers of consciousness are unified in an ultimate center of unity, if we are to be faithful to the mechanics and laws of the evolutionary process.

Thus we may say that the rise of rational consciousness as an important new factor, which constituted the threshold crossed by civilized man, prepared for the possibility that the seat of existence shift into this consciousness.

This rising and lowering of a psycho - physical threshold exactly conforms to our notion of a permanent obstruction to the transmission of consciousness, which obstruction may, in our brains, grow alternately greater or less.6

The whole form and evolution of the consciousness will then depend on the rising and falling of this wave; the intensity of the consciousness at any time on the wave's height at that time; and the height must always somewhere exceed a certain limit, which we will call a threshold, if waking consciousness is to exist at all.

«In general terms: wherever a psycho - physical total wave is continuous with itself above the threshold, there we find the unity or identity of a consciousness, inasmuch as the connection of the psychical phenomena which correspond to the parts of the wave also appears in consciousness.

And these heights and depressions must exceed a certain limit of quantity which we may call the upper threshold, before the special mental state which is correlated with them can appear in consciousness» [pp. 454 - 456].

The threshold throughout nature in general is, however, very high, so the consciousness that gets over it is of the discontinuous form.

«So far now as we symbolize any system of psycho - physical activity, to which a generally unified or principal consciousness corresponds, by the image of a total wave rising with its crest above a certain «threshold,» we have a means of schematizing in a single diagram the physical solidarity of all these psycho - physical systems throughout Nature, together with their pyscho - physical discontinuity.

From this standpoint it is at once apparent that, to unify the living forces of humanity, at present so painfully at odds, the direct and effective method is simply to sound the call - to - arms and form a solid block of all those, whether of the right or the left, who believe that the principal business of present - day Mankind is to achieve a breakthrough straight ahead by forcing its way over the threshold of some higher level of consciousness.

Whitehead's theory of consciousness illustrates the way in which he conceives of fundamental emergents, or threshold crossings, in a process that also has a basic continuity.

The attempt to set a threshold for consciousness with our limited definition is much like early attempts to establish freezing and boiling points without a thermometer or a good definition of temperature, he says.

Neurologist Damasio, curious about how we cross the «threshold that separates being from knowing,» delineates the nature of consciousness and the biological source of our sense of self in this involving, paradigm - shifting combination of riveting case studies and inspired interpretation.

History, Memory, and Identity During the 1990s many artists began examining how representation has traditionally inscribed difference and «otherness» in terms of sexual orientation, racial identity, and ethnicity, thus opening a new threshold in cultural consciousness.

In the dramatically diverse and wide range of forms adopted in Hiller's artistic practice over the last 40 years, there emerges a persistent and inventively tenacious attempt to illuminate the workings and implications of the imagination in collective consciousness, consistently on the tight - rope and threshold between fantasy and believability.