Can consciousness be studied using a reductionist approach, or is consciousness an emergent property arising from brain complexity and thus not amenable to the divide-and-conquer approaches of reductionism?
The bestseller is based on Eagleman's idea that we should be open to the fictional possibilities of what consciousness could be like after death.
My main complaint about the sunbathing afternoons proved not to be self-consciousness.
The need for embedding this Hayekian understanding of markets in the public consciousness cannot be overstated.
But it is a demonstration that one aspect of consciousness can be modified in a reproducible way.
Even better is that this state of consciousness can be witnessed in EEG recordings of the brain as a heightened, synchronous pattern of brain waves (called gamma synchrony).
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Speaking on the programme this morning the Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University Colin Blakemore went further claiming it was incumbent on neuroscience's critics to offer a better explanation for how consciousness might be generated.
Consciousness seems to be a mechanism for recursively modeling internal states within a body.
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It seems, therefore, that (3) there can be no natural science of consciousness.
This change in buying habits will be swift as our mass consciousness is being rapidly influenced by the game changers such as social media and the Groupons of the world.
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It's common in these circles to believe computers are becoming so much like people that, in another few decades, we will be able to download our consciousness into them and thus live forever.
Will businesses continue to be willful outliers in a changing corporate consciousness?
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Three-dimensional printing has entered the public consciousness enough for Congress to be considering legislation banning people from making guns using the technology.
This power becomes immediately noticeable, evidencing itself in the form of a more vivid imagination and the consciousness of what appears to be a sixth sense.
This is wrong, Mr Searle believes: science's job is to show how neural structures produce consciousness, and nobody can be sure in advance that it will fail.
However, if we are unable to reduce consciousness to simpler building blocks or concepts, it may be impossible to apply the tried and true tools of modern science to the daunting task of understanding consciousness.
Those social entrepreneurs will be looking for people who already demonstrate social consciousness through volunteer work.
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You can be fully aware, you can lose total consciousness or anywhere in between.
As Hollywood's obsession with the opening weekend filters into the general consciousness, cinema-goers may be rushing to the big screen for fear of missing the new release altogether.
Mr Doubleday said: "I think the enormity of the sacrifice and the brutality of WWI shouldn't be allowed to just slip away from the consciousness of the population as a whole, " he said.
Henry is suddenly incapable of throwing accurately, undermined by paralytic self-consciousness, or, Harbach seems to be arguing, by the onset of adulthood itself.
She is unable to talk and had been thought to be in a vegetative state, with no awareness or consciousness of her surroundings.
The other set of worst car names are ones that seem to be a calculated attempt to play upon consumer class-consciousness and social insecurities.
The guidelines say the definition of death should be regarded as the irreversible loss of the capacity for consciousness, combined with irreversible loss of the capacity to breathe.
For some, Mr Sebald's stream-of-consciousness, along with his other mannerisms, will be frustrating.
Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.
To be sure, loose socks don't herald a revolution in youth consciousness or the rise of a student disobedience movement.
McNamara believes this to be a Magdalene Laundry for the UK that isn't even in the public consciousness.
Companies that reach the public consciousness with positive values and principles supporting their pay-setting processes will be able to avoid reputational damage from shareholder rejection.
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