In the majority of experiments that are specifically about consciousness, the subjects are human, and the criterion that is used is verbal report: in other words, subjects are asked to describe their experiences, and their descriptions are treated as observations of the contents of consciousness.

For one thing, if verbal reports are treated as observations, akin to observations in other branches of science, then the possibility arises that they may contain errors — but it is difficult to make sense of the idea that subjects could be wrong about their own experiences, and even more difficult to see how such an error could be detected.

Empirical evidence ( the record of one's direct observations or experiences ) can be analyzed quantitatively or qualitatively.

Much of the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine derived from empirical observations of disease and illness by Taoist physicians and reflects the classical Chinese belief that individual human experiences express causative principles effective in the environment at all scales.

Brooks ' observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS / 360.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary ( abbreviated CatB ) is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail.

It is used to ascribe properties or relations to objects or types based on previous observations or experiences, or to formulate general statements or laws based on limited observations of recurring phenomenal patterns.

With reference to science and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations with previously acquired knowledge from abstract thought and everyday experiences.

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

He set down his experiences in Kriegsgefangen Erlebtes 1870 ( 1871 ) and published his observations on the campaign in Der Krieg gegen Frankreich 1870-71 ( 1874 – 1876 ).

The assessment incorporates the patient's self-reported experiences as well as the clinician's observations.

Peek raised a few eyebrows both for his candid discussion of his experiences with drugs and religion and for his observations of Beckley and Bunnell.

The journal includes his astronomical observations and personal notes about the American frontier environment and his experiences in colonial America.

In mathematics and empirical science, it is the act of counting and measuring that maps human sense observations and experiences into members of some set of numbers.

In this sense of the word, scientific statements are subject to, and derived from, our experiences or observations.

Many lesbian readers have found in it a reflection of their own experiences and observations.

Specifically, the clinician's observations of his or her own feelings in the transference help the clinician see things from the subjective view of the patient — to experience the world in ways that are closer to the way the patient experiences it.

Building on his observations while conducting LSD research and on Otto Rank's theory of birth trauma, Grof constructed a theoretical framework for pre-and perinatal psychology and transpersonal psychology in which LSD trips and other powerfully emotional experiences were mapped onto a person's early fetal and neonatal experiences.

His assertions and assumptions were based on his personal observations and experiences, with no empirical data to support them.

UFO researchers and theologians critical of TST admit that, while, observations of diffuse lights during ( and sometimes before and after ) very severe earthquakes may give some weak support to some parts of TST and Earthlights theory ( see Earthquake lights ), they question the ability of fault lines to generate luminous effects and hallucinatory experiences under much less severe conditions.

In a broader sense, critics have long argued that the majority of the people, places, and events of " The Blithedale Romance " can be traced back to Hawthorne's observations and experiences over his lifetime.

In turn, Clark Kent has a slightly dark side with which he comes to grips over time, made even worse by his experiences with red kryptonite, which causes him to lose his morals and act solely on impulse while under its influence.

All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

The Dilbert phenomenon accepts — and perversely eggs on — many negative aspects of corporate existence as unchangeable facets of human nature ... As Xerox managers grasped, Dilbert speaks to some very real work experiences while simultaneously eroding inclinations to fight for better working conditions.

In the Season Two episode " White Tulip ", Olivia experiences déjà vu while investigating the apartment of a time traveler who reset the timeline.

British Commando and other elite units were issued an especially slender dagger, the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, developed by William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes from real-life close-combat experiences gained while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police Force.

After barricading all of the doors, Ash descends into the cellar to find some extra shotgun shells, and while down there he experiences a series of strange events such as mysterious voices and blood seeping from numerous crevices and openings in the walls.

For a while he " went native " in his own country, dressing like a tramp and making no concessions to middle-class mores and expectations ; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in The Spike, his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ).

For example, while genes play a role in determining an organism's size, the nutrition and health it experiences after inception also have a large effect.

Jean and Wolverine address their long-unspoken mutual attraction, deciding it is best not to act on their feelings ; Cyclops grows further alienated from Jean due to her growing powers and institute responsibilities and seeks consolation from the telepathic Emma Frost to address his disillusionment and his experiences while possessed by Apocalypse.

Meher Baba described heaven and hell as transitory and illusory states between incarnations: The states of heaven and hell are nothing but states of intensive experiences of the consciousness of the soul, experiencing either of the predominant counterparts of the opposite impressions while the soul is dissociated from the gross human body or form.

The next day, Viacom announced that by the end of 2008, Neopets, Inc would be renamed to NeoStudios, " which will focus on developing new virtual world gaming experiences online, while continuing to grow and evolve the existing ones.

Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future.

But while these events were the setting of his childhood, his school experiences were just as formative.

Some cognitive features may reflect global neurocognitive deficits such as memory loss, while others may be related to particular issues and experiences.

One significant undertaking was the Census of Hallucinations, in which 15, 000 people were asked to report on hallucinatory experiences while awake and in good health.

The 1983 film Last Plane Out about journalist Jack Cox's experiences in Nicaragua portrayed the Sandanistas as crazed communist psychopaths while making Anastasio Somoza Debayle look like a sympathetic hero.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

The narrator experiences the blade mostly through sound as it " hissed " while swinging.

A University of Chicago researcher Linda Waite Professor in Sociology, states " 16 percent of cohabiting women reported that arguments with their partners became physical during the past year, while only 5 percent of married women had similar experiences.

This technique, employed properly, can be a very powerful one as it plays off the real life experiences of the viewer while evoking the equally unique memory of the victim.

Kesey's experiences while under the influence of LSD inspired him to promote the drug outside the context of the MKUltra experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.

Harris claims that while it ’ s true that siblings don ’ t have identical experiences in the home environment ( making it difficult to associate a definite figure to the variance of personality due to home environments ), the variance found by current methods is so low that researchers should look elsewhere to try to account for the remaining variance.

* " Mystical Brain " by Isabelle Raynauld ( 2006 )-a documentary film about 5 Carmelite Nuns who volunteered to have their brains scanned while they meditated by recalling mystical experiences