This is not to restate Santayana's view poetically but rather to convey that Santayana characterizes consciousness, itself, as poetic rather than as a means to an action or as a way of implementing an action.
We see here the important role played by his so-called voluntarism:[53] associationist psychologists, according to Wundt, cannot give an account of the (subjective) activity that immediately characterizes consciousness.[54] Yet this is not to deny association of sensations altogether.
4. "Intentionality" was a term first used by Franz Brentano to characterize consciousness as a sheer activity of aiming, directing itself toward objects or to its own unfolding.
There are at least two approaches to what characterizes unified consciousness that are compatible with the no experiential parts view.
The fact that it can be achieved marks the development of a psychokinetic aspect of humanity, as contrasted with the previous psychostatic aspect which characterizes core consciousness of state 3 (ref. 61, p. 249).
From the moment it appeared, the phrase has been used to characterize the consciousness of our era, the awareness of everything perilous about the modern world: the degradation of the environment, nuclear energy, religious fundamentalism, threats to privacy and the family, drugs, pornography, violence, terrorism.
A second attempt to characterize unified consciousness claims that a relation among local conscious states is the crucial element, a relation usually called co-consciousness.
Although most forms of experience seemingly feature succession and persistence – even the most primitive forms if James was correct in characterizing infant consciousness as a 'blooming, buzzing confusion' – it is not easy to understand how any form of experience can have such features.
Furthermore, this study provides information on the muscle activity, EMG, that in some cases are considered as the noise, significantly affecting the result to characterize the consciousness level.
Toxic encephalopathy, characterized by reduced consciousness, seizures, and delirium, may occur in poisoning with alcohols, sedatives, and many other chemicals and drugs the latter usually taken in overdose or for a prolonged period.
In 60% of cases, sepsis induces acute brain dysfunction (SIBD) clinically characterized by altered consciousness ranging from confusion to coma.
