Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. As Max Velmans and ...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ,
- The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. ,
- The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. ,
- The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. ,
- Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. ,
- The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. ,
- The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life. ,
- His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. ,
- My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ,
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
