Sentence examples for achieved consciousness from inspiring English sources

We spent so much time on computers – working on them, communicating with them, being entertained by them – it was easy, once the machines achieved consciousness, for them to reprogram us in their own image.

Once people have achieved consciousness of themselves as social beings, morality also becomes possible and this relies on the further faculty of conscience.

The machines upgraded the probe to fulfill its mission, and on its journey the probe gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness.

By engaging in body-based awareness and reflections, they achieved consciousness of how bodily sensations and reactions were strongly connected to the stress of their everyday lives.

"The Polyphony of the World" presents a man who achieves consciousness by interacting with sound.

But the counselors, tired and maybe a bit hung over, were barely achieving consciousness.

Its special effects, on the night Pinocchio achieves consciousness and speech, are inspired by "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

But with change blindness, we know that the information reaches some level of processing, even if it remains below the threshold needed to achieve consciousness.

So for Dennett, computers consisting of layer on layer of mindless programs can indeed achieve consciousness, at least in the very restricted sense in which philosophers – and neuroscientists – use that multidimensional word.

We first covered Freebase in March 2007 (see "This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and kills us all").

One of the hottest issues in current consciousness research is the issue of how brains achieve consciousness and what parts of the brain are most involved in doing do, what the 'neural correlates of consciousness' (NCC) are.