Workers are oppressed, central to the capitalist mode of production, endowed with a cognitive style based on their practical productive material interaction with nature, and collectively self-conscious agents of a potentially universal class.
Contrast this with gay men who are planning to get married and can adopt children – this group achieves so much because they are dedicated, conscious and collectively organised.
Yet while each and every individual neuron is conscious in itself, collectively they also constitute my unitary consciousness as a human being.
"But collectively, museums haven't embraced it in a strategic, conscious fashion until recently".
But if Americans collectively ate less meat and adopted a more health-conscious diet, in line with US Department of Agriculture recommendations, it would actually increase emissions by 12%.
Each individual is conscious of himself, but nobody conscious of themselves collectively".
As Trivers (2000) puts it, this information was relegated "to portions of … the organization that [were] inaccessible to consciousness (we can think of the people running NASA as the conscious part of the organization)." In this case, collectively held values created a climate within NASA that clouded its vision of the data and led to its endorsement of a fatally false belief.
Jenna will be encouraging consumers -- especially teens -- to make a conscious choice by shopping second-hand and lowering the amount of resources we, as a society, collectively demand.
Responses of participants such as "test-oriented preparation impaired the real language training," "self-conscious to speak in public," "poor language skills to complete school assignments" and so forth collectively portrayed an array of events with logical connections.
