Though jurors said they all agreed he was mentally ill, they saw intent in the planning and execution of his act, awareness of the consequences to his victim and an understanding that what he was doing was wrong.
To avoid this we might posit a higher-order act awareness, A*, which takes [A1, A2, A3 … An] and their contents its objects, and in so doing creates an experience of succession.
For all that core thesis says, being appeared-to F-ly could be a way of representing that something is F. Historically, adverbialists' main motivation was to oppose the act-object conception of experience, according to which experiences are structured by an act of awareness, on the one hand, and an object of awareness, on the other.
As can be seen, act of awareness A1 apprehends the tone-sequence C-D, and act of awareness A3 apprehends the tone-sequence E-F, but the tone-sequence not recognized by the Discrete Block model – D-E – is now apprehended by the act of awareness A2, which occurs between A1 and A3.
The sense-datum theory is often characterized as an act-object theory of the nature of immediate experience: it accounts for such experience by postulating both an act of awareness (or apprehension) and an object (the sense-datum) which that act apprehends or is an awareness of.
Hence, two or more ideas that are related by "earlier than" must be experienced in one single act of awareness.
William James, a U.S. Pragmatist philosopher and also a pioneer psychologist, popularized the term specious present for the span of time covered by a single act of awareness.
Thus, students who are more dispositionally mindful than their peers tend to be non-judgmental and act with awareness, rather than on automatic pilot, which may engage executive functions and self-regulation.
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.
Thus, God is able in a single act of awareness to comprehend all of history, the past and future as well as the present, just as though they were now occurring.
Rather than require a further act of awareness, some acquaintance theorists add constraints to the nature of the foundational belief or the manner in which it is formed so that acquaintance with some mental state or mental feature provides part of the content of the belief itself, and does so in such a way as to guarantee the truth of the belief.
