Sentence examples for Momentary awareness from inspiring English sources

A track from Coldplay's most recent album features Barks reciting one of the poems: "This being human is a guest house / Every morning a new arrival / A joy, a depression, a meanness, / some momentary awareness comes / as an unexpected visitor".

But while the eye-catching stunt raises momentary awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – also known as motor neurone disease – and is reported to have raised over $100m to date, opinion is divided as to the longer-term impacts of the ice bucket challenge, just as it was over the likes of movember and #nomakeupselfie in the past.

For according to one influential line of thinking regarding phenomenal unity, in order for contents to be experienced as unified, they must be presented simultaneously to a single momentary awareness.

Many realists have no doubt found the Retentional approach appealing because it offers a simple and intuitively satisfying explanation of how an experience of succession differs from a mere succession of experiences: in the former case, the contents forming the succession are presented together, as an ensemble, to a single momentary awareness.

In other words, even if it were possible to map out the exact pattern of brain waves that give rise to a person's momentary complex of awareness, that mapping would only explain the physical correlate of these experiences, but it wouldn't be them.

But with the resources available to the Cinematic realist – momentary acts of awareness, momentary contents – there is no obvious way of creating the required unity.

The earlier and later parts of the temporal spread apprehended by the momentary act of awareness depicted in Figure 8 are evidently experienced together – they are diachronically co-conscious – and they are also experienced as a succession.

and you have a brief momentary experience of just being awareness, you will never think of awareness as ordinary ever again.

The doctrine that diachronic phenomenal unity can only exist in strictly momentary states of consciousness is rejected in favour of a more natural (or naïve) model of temporal awareness.

It is constructed around acts of awareness that are themselves momentary, but which apprehend phenomenal contents distributed over a short interval of time; a stream of consciousness consists of dense sequences of such acts, with the consequence that the contents apprehended by neighbouring acts largely overlap.

Anyone who inclines to realism, but also follows Augustine in confining consciousness to the momentary present, faces the difficulty of explaining how we can have an awareness of succession if our consciousness consists of nothing more than a succession of momentary snapshot-like experiences.