Thus aesthetic judgments might be seen to be based on the senses, emotions, intellectual opinions, will, desires, culture, preferences, values, subconscious behavior, conscious decision, training, instinct, sociological institutions, or some complex combination of these, depending on exactly which theory one employs.

Recently, especially in the context of cognitive decision making, symbolic cognitive modeling is extended to socio-cognitive approach including social and organization cognition interrelated with a sub-symbolic not conscious layer.

Ideally, a secure system should require a deliberate, conscious, knowledgeable and free decision on the part of legitimate authorities in order to make it insecure.

These results have been interpreted to suggest that people are capable of action before conscious experience of the decision to act occurs.

While the album is almost completely guitar-driven, it is mostly devoid of any conventional sounding guitar solos, a conscious decision made by Lifeson during the writing process.

LUH becomes disillusioned and makes a conscious decision to break the law and stop taking her drugs.

" It means that a couple slowly slides into cohabitation instead of making a clear, conscious decision to move in together and take the next step in their relationship.

As the film is the sole source of most people's knowledge of Schindler, he is generally perceived much as Spielberg's film depicts him: as a man who was instinctively driven by profit-driven amorality, but who at some point made a silent but conscious decision that preserving the lives of his Jewish employees was imperative, even if requiring massive payments to induce Nazis to turn a blind eye.

In other words, according to Rousseau, reason, language and rational community did not arise because of any conscious decision or plan by humans or gods, nor because of any pre-existing human nature.

" Aware that he was a novice, Mendes drew on the experience of Hall: " I made a very conscious decision early on, if I didn't understand something technically, to say, without embarrassment, ' I don't understand what you're talking about, please explain it.

" Haseltine explained the decision to " shy away from ... traditional religious language " as a conscious one, in part to make their music more accessible to those " put off by religion ", and to " love people in a way that isn't exclusive to simply people that understand the language of Christianity.

The central idea is that, under pressure, it is impossible to visually recognize the precise direction and speed of an attack and make a conscious decision on an effective way in which to react, all within the very brief amount of time you have before your opponent's attack lands.

Pittsburgh coach Lou Angotti later admitted that a conscious decision was made to finish the season as the team with the worst record, stating in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that a mid-season lunch prompted the plan, in light of the fact that there was a high chance of the franchise folding if Lemieux was not drafted.

In 2008, no Australian movies made $ 3 million at the box office, but a conscious decision by film-makers to broaden the types of films being made as well as the range of budgets produced a series of box-office hits at the close of the decade.

Fatherhood was not a conscious decision.

He made a conscious decision to tone down the band's sound, introducing more acoustic elements and foregrounding Jarboe as a singer.

The drafters of the new Strategy made a conscious decision to remove terms such as " Islamic radicalism ", instead speaking of terrorism generally.

a conscious decision that anticipated military advantage outweighed collateral damage.

He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland ; his father had taken a conscious decision not to send his children to any of the more fashionable public schools.

" After completing his dissertation ( 1907-see Van Dalen ), Brouwer made a conscious decision to temporarily keep his contentious ideas under wraps and to concentrate on demonstrating his mathematical prowess " ( Davis ( 2000 ), p. 95 ); by 1910 he had published a number of important papers, in particular the Fixed Point Theorem.

His death was a conscious leaving of life brought about by fasting, a decision and experience described in his wife Helen Nearing's memoir, Loving and Leaving the Good Life.

His obituary in Variety Magazine states that there he was wounded and captured by the British on the second day of combat, but Kinski's autobiography claims he made a conscious decision to desert.

At heart, the individual is a servant first, making the conscious decision to lead in order to better serve others, not to increase their own power.

“ But I made a conscious decision to be positive .” Jaclyn Smith cancelled a trip to New York City, meeting Jackson at her doctor ’ s office before she checked into the hospital.

Libet tells when the readiness potential occurs objectively, using electrodes, but relies on the subject reporting the position of the hand of a clock to determine when the conscious decision was made.

Hands-off the economy was replaced by conscious guidance through planning -- the economic side of the constitutional revolution.

They are conscious of this state's new feeling of optimism and assurance and are definitely impressed by the number of new plants and construction projects in Rhode Island.

I was at least conscious of the distinction in my full Yokuts presentation that awaits publication, in which, in listing ' Two-Stem Meanings ', I set off by asterisks those forms in which N of stem B was Af of stem A/3, the unasterisked ones standing for Af ; ;

But there is very little frank and conscious espousal of the interests of any one social class by the people who have the power to make decisions in education.

In this process the vaginal muscles come under better conscious control by the girl.

If the latter knows nothing about the absent sitter except his name ( given by the experimenter ), he cannot possibly give any clues, conscious or unconscious, far less ask leading questions.

It is apparently by symbols that the unconscious speaks to the conscious, and the medium has to translate these into meaning.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

Whichever explanation is true, it seems certain the appellation was chosen by the Almoravids for themselves, partly with the conscious goal of forestalling any tribal or ethnic identifications.

It has therefore been argued that astrology began as a study as soon as human beings made conscious attempts to measure, record, and predict seasonal changes by reference to astronomical cycles.

* By transcending such imaginative pictures, the meditant can become conscious of the meditative activity itself, which leads to experiences of expressions of soul-spiritual beings unmediated by sensory phenomena or qualities.

The strong anthropic principle ( SAP ) as explained by Barrow and Tipler ( see variants ) states that this is all the case because the Universe is compelled, in some sense, for conscious life to eventually emerge.

In any event, if speech is indeed governed by rules, they appear to be opaque to any conscious consideration.

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

His own view is that consciousness has subjective, first-person causal powers by being essentially intentional due simply to the way human brains function biologically ; conscious persons can perform computations, but consciousness is not inherently computational the way computer programs are.

Another way of putting the argument is to say computational computer programs can pass the Turing test for processing the syntax of a language, but that semantics cannot be reduced to syntax in the way Strong AI advocates hoped: processing semantics is conscious and intentional because we use semantics to consciously produce meaning by what we say.

The objective is to understand the relationship between the conscious awareness of stimuli ( as indicated by verbal report ) and the effects the stimuli have on brain activity and behavior.

Peter Carruthers has put forth one such potential adaptive advantage gained by conscious creatures by suggesting that consciousness allows an individual to make distinctions between appearance and reality.

If evolutionary processes are blind to the difference between function F being performed by conscious organism O and non-conscious organism O *, it is unclear what adaptive advantage consciousness could provide.

His injuries left him in a minimally conscious state ( MCS ), a condition akin to a coma but characterized by occasional, but brief, evidence of environmental and self-awareness that coma patients lack.

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).