Others commented that Western society breeds neuroses and increased body consciousness, possibly leading to more white women suffering from eating disorders.

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We begin in the closet, dissecting pieces and wardrobe categories, and using those individual garments as a springboard to discuss lifestyle, aesthetic preferences, areas of body consciousness, frustrations, and comfort zones.

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While in grad school, I continued to work on all sides of the fashion industry, always feeling like an outsider doing inside observational work, and with a hyper-awareness of the power of aesthetic manipulation and body consciousness.

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On the third day, the reptiles were replaced by the occasional amphibian and I began to sense a reliable connection between one moment and the next, to feel with some security that I inhabited one body and one consciousness.

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He's hoping that Pistorius' high-profile competitions will help move us toward an evolution in social consciousness: accepting the validity and equality of synthetic body parts just as we do different races and genders.

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Consciousness seems to be a mechanism for recursively modeling internal states within a body.

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On cooler days, guests huddle around blazing cave fires to listen to ageless tales, learn the art of body painting and are encouraged to simply let the old legends seep freely into their consciousness.

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