Sentence examples for conscious being from inspiring English sources

After all, the fact that there are some conscious beings is not contrary to physicalism — why then should the possibility that everything is a conscious being be contrary to physicalism?

These physical workings certainly seem to be a good simulation of a conscious being.

In Woolf's case, that moment in her bed in the St Ives nursery was the moment she became a conscious being.

The god-like Mother of the film's second-person narration evokes the inclination to humanize nature, to treat nature itself as a conscious being.

Awareness is only one of the several meanings the OED ascribes to consciousness, including self-knowledge and, to me the most important, "the totality of the impressions, thoughts, and feelings, which make up a person's conscious being".

From the outside, it's possible to imagine that the octopus is a "zombie" — physically alive but mentally empty — and, in theory, the same could be true of any apparently conscious being.

"Conscious," was the reply.

How conscious was she of it?

Fate made conscious is destiny.

The time I'm most conscious is watching the television.

In America, government officials find themselves doubly self-conscious, being both victims and beneficiaries of events in Chile.