So we may conceive the coexistence of the infinite number of universal, apparently momentary states of matter, successive one after another in consciousness, but permanent each on its own basic phase of the progressive frequencies.

This sensitivity to the hidden motives of other people may be an evolved and universal feature of human consciousness.

Issues of concern in the philosophy of consciousness include whether the concept is fundamentally valid ; whether consciousness can ever be explained mechanistically ; whether non-human consciousness exists and if so how it can be recognized ; how consciousness relates to language ; and whether it may ever be possible for computers or robots to be conscious.

As a third issue, philosophers who dispute the validity of the Turing test may feel that it is possible, at least in principle, for verbal report to be dissociated from consciousness entirely: a philosophical zombie may give detailed verbal reports of awareness in the absence of any genuine awareness.

What many consider consciousness may simply be the personal awareness of all the neurons delivering messages to the mind, but operational consciousness can include all neuronal activity.

Bernard Baars proposed that once in place, this " recursive " circuitry may have provided a basis for the subsequent development of many of the functions that consciousness facilitates in higher organisms.

Patients may suffer from disorders of consciousness, or may need to be anesthetized for a surgical procedure.

Also, bioethicists may be concerned with the ethical implications of consciousness in medical cases of patients such as Karen Ann Quinlan, while neuroscientists may study patients with impaired consciousness in hopes of gaining information about how the brain works.

The outcome may be summarized using the Glasgow Coma Scale, which yields a number in the range 3 — 15, with a score of 3 indicating brain death ( the lowest defined level of consciousness ), and 15 indicating full consciousness.

While other conditions may cause a moderate deterioration ( e. g., dementia and delirium ) or transient interruption ( e. g., grand mal and petit mal seizures ) of consciousness, they are not included in this category.

The experiment is the centerpiece of Searle's Chinese room argument which holds that a program cannot give a computer a " mind ", " understanding " or " consciousness ", regardless of how intelligently it may make it behave.

The influence of such persons may reflect a heightened spiritual consciousness, or may simply represent people attempting to explain the world as best they could given the tools of the time.

The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, wherein individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.

The thoughts and ideas discussed and refined during this period have profoundly influenced lifestyles and social consciousness up to the present day in East Asian countries.

In Bahá ' í belief, souls in the afterlife will continue to retain their individuality and consciousness and will be able to recognize and communicate spiritually with other souls whom they have made deep profound friendships with, such as their spouses.

Patterson ( 1995 ) has proposed a form of afterlife equivalent to a collective dream but concludes that the individual will still have subjective consciousness.

Steiner believed results of this form of spiritual research should be expressed in a way that can be understood and evaluated on the same basis as the results of natural science: " The anthroposophical schooling of thinking leads to the development of a non-sensory, or so-called supersensory consciousness, whereby the spiritual researcher brings the experiences of this realm into ideas, concepts, and expressive language in a form which people can understand who do not yet have the capacity to achieve the supersensory experiences necessary for individual research.

Philosophers since the time of Descartes and Locke have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness and pin down its essential properties.

Most writers on the philosophy of consciousness have been concerned to defend a particular point of view, and have organized their material accordingly.

While most people have a strong intuition for the existence of what they refer to as consciousness, skeptics argue that this intuition is false, either because the concept of consciousness is intrinsically incoherent, or because our intuitions about it are based in illusions.

Many philosophers have argued that consciousness is a unitary concept that is understood intuitively by the majority of people in spite of the difficulty in defining it.

Since the dawn of Newtonian science with its vision of simple mechanical principles governing the entire universe, some philosophers have been tempted by the idea that consciousness could be explained in purely physical terms.

Many other neuroscientists, such as Christof Koch, have explored the neural basis of consciousness without attempting to frame all-encompassing global theories.

At the same time, computer scientists working in the field of Artificial Intelligence have pursued the goal of creating digital computer programs that can simulate or embody consciousness.

A few theoretical physicists have argued that classical physics is intrinsically incapable of explaining the holistic aspects of consciousness, but that quantum theory provides the missing ingredients.

Several theorists have therefore proposed quantum mind ( QM ) theories of consciousness.

It is particularly acute for people who believe in the possibility of philosophical zombies, that is, people who think it is possible in principle to have an entity that is physically indistinguishable from a human being and behaves like a human being in every way but nevertheless lacks consciousness.

For further explanation for why people believe other people have consciousness look at Peter Carruthers Phenomenal Consciousness.

Several psychologists and ethologists have argued for the existence of animal consciousness by describing a range of behaviors that appear to show animals holding beliefs about things they cannot directly perceive — Donald Griffin's 2001 book Animal Minds reviews a substantial portion of the evidence.

Another issue with verbal report as a criterion is that it restricts the field of study to humans who have language: this approach cannot be used to study consciousness in other species, pre-linguistic children, or people with types of brain damage that impair language.

A number of studies have shown that activity in primary sensory areas of the brain is not sufficient to produce consciousness: it is possible for subjects to report a lack of awareness even when areas such as the primary visual cortex show clear electrical responses to a stimulus.

" The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness.

::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.

The desire, or the need, did not come upon him often, and it came usually when he was feeling ill or depressed ; then whole lines and stanzas would present themselves to him without any effort, or any consciousness of composition on his part.

Though the Wissenschaftslehre demonstrates that such an Anstoss must occur if self-consciousness is to come about, it is quite unable to deduce or to explain the actual occurrence of such an Anstoss — except as a condition for the possibility of consciousness.

The term " gonzo " has also come into ( sometimes pejorative ) use to describe journalism that is in the vein of Thompson's style, characterized by a drug-fueled stream of consciousness writing technique.

The phenomenological position is that although the facticity of the social world may be culturally and historically relative, the formal structures of consciousness, and the processes by which we come to know and understand this facticity, are not.

| Stream of consciousness || Literary genre || Technique where the author writes down their thoughts as fast as they come, typically to create an interior monologue, characterized by leaps in syntax and punctuation that trace a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings.

By a growth from simple sensations, those states of consciousness which appear most remote from sensation come into being.

Through discernment of the real and the unreal, the sadhak ( practitioner ) would unravel the maya and come to an understanding that the observable world is unreal and impermanent, and that consciousness is the only true existence.

An altered state of consciousness can come about accidentally through, for example, fever, infections such as meningitis, sleep deprivation, fasting, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis ( deep diving ), psychosis, temporal lobe epilepsy or a traumatic accident.

Owen Flanagan of Duke University, a leading consciousness researcher, writes that " Evidence strongly suggests that humans in all cultures come to cast their own identity in some sort of narrative form.

However, psychology may explain the same experiences in terms of altered states of consciousness, which may come about accidentally through ( for example ) very high fever, infections such as meningitis, sleep deprivation, fasting, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis ( deep diving ), psychosis, temporal-lobe epilepsy, or a traumatic accident.

Haidt's fundamental stance on moral reasoning is that " moral intuitions ( including moral emotions ) come first and directly cause moral judgments "; he characterizes a moral intuition as " the sudden appearance in consciousness of a moral judgment, including an affective valence ( good-bad, like-dislike ), without any conscious awareness of having gone through steps of searching, weighing evidence, or inferring a conclusion ".

Mean recovers consciousness and kills ex-Chief Judge Fargo who had just come upon the scene.

Shephard regains consciousness in a Black Mesa medical bay, tended to by the science team, learning that the Marines are being steadily beaten by the alien forces from Xen and orders have come through to pull out.

The Spitting Image asserts that the claims of abuse of soldiers by antiwar demonstrators became ingrained in the American consciousness only some years after the war had come to a close ; Lembcke attributes the legend's growth to films relating to Vietnam, notably Rambo.

Coming by Delenn's side as she briefly regains consciousness, she tells him: " I knew you would come.

He explained: " Political things such as class consciousness or class struggle or other aspects of social existence really come down to the problem of man alone .... I have discovered the powerful, very fundamental force in man which sustains his survival and which can be called sexual energy ... My idea of sex is nothing but the expression of the vitality of man, his urge for survival.

Hegel's approach, referred to as the Hegelian method, consists of actually examining consciousness ' experience of both itself and of its objects and eliciting the contradictions and dynamic movement that come to light in looking at this experience.

These theorists argue that once we really come to understand what consciousness is, we will realize that the hard problem is unreal.

According to Ryerson, and many other Marxist thinkers, the ability to breakthrough to a more open society will come about from the “ dispelling of the fog of false consciousness, gaining for ourselves a true recognition of the real nature of the existing social structure .”

Eventually, thanks primarily to Changeling's encouragement, and Omen and Raven holding Vic together long enough to come up with a plan, Vic's consciousness was restored, and " downloaded " into the Omegadrome, a morphing war-suit belonging to former Titan Minion.

In his 1997 book, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, historian Rashid Khalidi notes that the archaeological strata that denote the history of Palestine — encompassing the Biblical, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Fatimid, Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods — form part of the identity of the modern-day Palestinian people, as they have come to understand it over the last century, but derides the efforts of some Palestinian nationalists to attempt to " anachronistically " read back into history a nationalist consciousness that is in fact " relatively modern.

Thus, the disciple can only surrender himself and wait for the divine grace to come down and eliminate the limitations that imprison his consciousness.

Because of the recent concern with the environment, environmental consciousness or awareness has come to be related to the growth and development of understanding and consciousness toward the biophysical environment and its problems.