It was as if the garden had become a sort of embodiment of the domestic dreams forever intrinsic to human consciousness.

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Jake Sully's out of body experience is simply another extension of this interconnectivity, as if role-playing games might one day lead to a profound philosophical empathy, a higher human consciousness.

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Unless their is a sea change in human consciousness, the number of celebrities willing to fly to Moscow for a few million dollars will continue to exceed those who refuse to do so.

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The objective is to mimic human interactions so closely that the device disappears from consciousness, leaving the users to communicate though all their senses.

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Terence McKenna, in his book "Food of the Gods, " wrote about the origins of human language: this unique, often ecstatic expression of consciousness that bursts forth as morsels of meaning encoded as vocal patterns.

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David Eagleman talked to the BBC's Tom Bateman about the various theories of what forms consciousness - whether it is a property of the human brain or a "property of the universe".

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All this supports a once-radical idea that has been floating about in psychology since put into words by the consciousness expert Nick Humphrey in the 1970s that human beings evolved big brains not to understand the world, but to understand each other.

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The resort to this sinking moral high ground is made by people properly concerned with the human ill of racism, but so preemptively concerned with it that they now layer that racial consciousness over the evidence of other features of reality.

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And the plight of these human tumbleweeds, as one observer had labeled them, had by now worked its way into the national consciousness.

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