He would later collect several essays on content in The Intentional stance and synthesize his views on consciousness into a unified theory in Consciousness Explained.

In Consciousness Explained, Dennett's interest in the ability of evolution to explain some of the content-producing features of consciousness is already apparent, and this has since become an integral part of his program.

Yet, in Consciousness Explained, he admits " I am a sort of ' teleofunctionalist ', of course, perhaps the original teleofunctionalist '".

* Consciousness Explained ( Back Bay Books 1992 ) ( ISBN 0-316-18066-1 )

* Consciousness Explained

Another stimulus was the publication in 1991 of Consciousness Explained by Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett, which incorporated the meme concept into a theory of the mind.

Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain.

A year after Consciousness Explained was published, Dennett noted " I wish in retrospect that I'd been more daring, since the effects are stronger than I claimed ".

This has led detractors to nickname the book Consciousness Ignored and Consciousness Explained Away.

In his earlier book Consciousness Explained, Dennett argued that, without denying that human consciousness exists, we can understand it as coming about from the coordinated activity of many components in the brain that are themselves unconscious.

The emergentist multiple drafts principle proposed by Daniel Dennett in Consciousness Explained may be useful for prediction: it involves the evaluation and selection of the most appropriate " draft " to fit the current environment.

* Daniel Dennett, in Consciousness Explained, has called into question the validity of this sort of thought experiment altogether, maintaining that when a thought experiment is too far removed from the actual state of affairs, our intuitions cease to be meaningful.

Dennett describes the book as an installment of a lifelong philosophical project, earlier parts of which were The Intentional Stance, Consciousness Explained and Elbow Room.

As in Consciousness Explained, Dennett advertises the controversial nature of his views extensively in advance.

This has led detractors to refer to Dennett's book Consciousness Explained as Consciousness Ignored or Consciousness Explained Away.

Dennett discussed this at the end of his book with a section entitled Consciousness Explained or Explained Away?

* Dennett, D. " Heterophenomenology " in Dennett, D. Consciousness Explained, Penguin Press, 1991.

* The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies video interview with Daniel Dennett 2010-03-05 ( with transcript )

* Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, a book by Daniel Dennett

These papers ( by Daniel Dennett, Colin McGinn, Francisco Varela, Francis Crick, and Roger Penrose, among others ) were collected and published in the book Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem.

* Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett, 1992, ISBN 978-0-316-18066-5

* An Examination Of Chirography And Typography On The Consciousness, Human Relations And British Culture By Daniel Blackmore

* " Facing Backwards on the Problem of Consciousness " ( 1996 )-Daniel Dennett

The term Cartesian Theater was brought up in the context of the Multiple Drafts Model that Dennett posits in Consciousness Explained ( 1991 ):

* Dennett, D. and Kinsbourne, M. ( 1992 ) " Time and the Observer: the Where and When of Consciousness in the Brain ".

-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.

The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals ; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans ; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.

Consciousness in mammals ( this includes humans ) is an aspect of the mind generally thought to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, sentience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment.

The most recent High was seen between World War II and the Consciousness Revolution.

Marxist Georg Lukács would also criticize, in his book History and Class Consciousness ( 1923 ), the Kantian abandon of knowledge of the concrete totality: according to Lukács, Kant's distinction between noumenons and phenomena lead to the abandonment of the knowledge of the historical process, which could be only apprehended, in his eyes, by dialectical materialism.

The style in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and in North India, also worn in the West by devotees of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, consists of folding the cloth in half, taking the left side, pleating it vertically, passing it between the legs and tucking it in the waist at the back.

In Richard Bucke's 1901 treatise Cosmic Consciousness, special attention was given to the profundity of Böhme's spiritual enlightenment, which seemed to reveal to Böhme an ultimate nondifference, or nonduality, between human beings and God.

This may be a reference to the difference between the portrayal of the Consciousness in Spearhead from Space and " Rose ".

Both Being and Consciousness, however, are immediately known to us, as also the relation existing between them.

Chen once wrote an article entitled " Self Consciousness on Patriotism " ( 愛國心與自覺 ) which conveyed a strong sense of patriotism and encouraged people to fight for their freedom.

In Cosmic Consciousness ( starting with Part II, Chapter 2, Section IV ) he explains how animals developed the hearing sense ( noise detection ) in order to survive.

Consciousness is compared to light which illuminates the material configurations or ' shapes ' assumed by the mind.

Georg Lukács, minister of Culture in the brief Béla Kun government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ( 1919 ), published History and Class Consciousness ( 1923 ), which defined dialectical materialism as the knowledge of society as a whole, knowledge which, in itself, was immediately the class consciousness of the proletariat.

Julian Jaynes ( February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997 ) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ( 1976 ), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.

A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population.

In 2010 he announced that he was to release " Shame ", a duet with Take That lead singer songwriter Gary Barlow as the first single from his greatest hits collection In and Out of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990 – 2010 which was certified silver in the UK and charted in 19 countries worldwide.

Consciousness is a state of cognition that includes the subject, which can never be doubted as only it can be the one who doubts, and some object or objects that may or may not have real existence without reference to the subject.

An exception to this acceptance is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ), which includes several members who actively oppose " Darwinism " and the modern evolutionary synthesis.

# Objection: How indeed could ignorance become a covering ( or an obscure factor ) for Brahman ( or the Supreme Spirit ) who is Pure Consciousness, as if the darkness arising from the night ( could become a concealing factor ) for the sun which is self-luminous?

But its power of Consciousness in living beings, which is established in this world, is not veiled.

While the PAC proved to have little lasting organizational impact ( the group was suppressed a mere 11 months after its founding ), its policy of Africanism and acceptance of Maoism informed the black student uprisings of the mid and late 1970s which were led by the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania ( South Africa ) and Steve Biko.

That Personality is not a permanent, but a transient thing: That it lives and dies, begins and ends, continually: That no one can any more remain one and the same person two Moments together, than two successive Moments can be one and the same Moment: that our Substance is indeed continually changing ; but whether this be so or not, is, it seems, nothing to the purpose ; since it is not Substance, but Consciousness alone, which constitutes Personality ; which Consciousness, being successive, cannot be the same in any two Moments, nor consequently the personality constituted by it.

Furthermore, alchemy is seen as the " key " to theurgy, the ultimate goal of which is to become united with higher counterparts, leading to the attainment of Divine Consciousness.

Forman argues that some of the unusual states of consciousness typical of mystical experience are Pure Consciousness Events in which awareness exists, but has no object, is not awareness " of " anything.

Edelman is noted for his theory of consciousness, which he has documented in a trilogy of technical books, and in several subsequent books written for a general audience including Bright Air, Brilliant Fire ( 1992 ), A Universe of Consciousness ( 2001, with Giulio Tononi ), Wider than the Sky ( 2004 ) and Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge ( 2007 ).

Together with a female backing singer named Kay Starr, they released a single, " Dollars ", and performed at several concerts including " Western Consciousness 2004 " on April 28 in Jamaica, of which a live video was released shortly thereafter.