With the growth of symbolization, practically
the whole of conscious experience was symbolically organized.
Not exact matches
One is never
conscious of more than a tiny part
of the
whole of one's
experience.
I mean to assert that my
conscious experience, the
experience constitutive
of me as a
conscious ego, is the
experience of the actual entities constitutive
of the personally ordered regnant society which dominates my brain and my
whole animal organism.
In his discussion
of the rationality
of our notion
of the universe, he writes that «the existential belief in the unity
of reality corresponding to the unity
of conscious experience permeates the
whole standard cosmological model, including all its constructs» (p. 280) and asks why the standard cosmological model is so convincing.
The phenomenon
of subception discussed by Rogers and selective inattention reported by H. S. Sullivan demonstrate that it is possible for the organism as a
whole to conform to or
experience events that the higher
conscious processes will fail to detect.23 Hence, the inhibiting and habit - ridden structures
of consciousness are transcended by perception in the adverbial mode.
For Piaget, the ontological egocentricity
of the child was due primarily to the fact that the child does not yet differentiate its selfhood from the Being
of the universe (RME 110, 241); therefore, the child is not yet
conscious of itself as being other over against the world and, therefore, interprets the
whole reality according to its own
experience.
Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements
of our
conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent
experience of the world.9 Only a living person
experiencing a
whole series
of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware
of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full
of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour
of his deepest need, when he
experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.
We are no longer assured
of the spontaneous, immediate, unself -
conscious participation in life,
experienced with a
whole heart and soul undivided against itself.
My
experience of nursing him (and our second son, who is now 2.5) pushed me to become much more
conscious of my own nutrition and the nutrition
of the
whole family.»
A few oddities, but on the
whole, a very self -
conscious kind
of experience.
Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals
of the profession in its public role: «the first - year
experience as a
whole, without
conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity
of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.