Sentence examples for conscious either from inspiring English sources

The Los Angeles police and district attorney's office first approached O. J. Simpson as an old friend, then later as a big catch; they were, at turns, remarkably solicitous and opportunistically grandstanding — conscious, either way, of how his celebrity might benefit them.

It is one thing to say of an individual person or organism that it is conscious (either in general or of something in particular); and it is quite another thing to say of one of the mental states of a creature that it is conscious.

As Beattie and McGuire put it: "People can choose not to go to the cinema to watch An Inconvenient Truth, people can ignore television documentaries on climate change, people can fail to attend to images of climate change – and this whole process does not have to be conscious either".

So why should thinking about my perception of the rock make the latter phenomenally conscious, either?

But how can this be, if what makes M conscious is the existence of an unconscious higher-order thought targeted on M? Since I don't know that this thought exists, it seems that I shouldn't be able to know that M is conscious, either.

"People remained conscious, either in their beds or out, for up to an hour or so in which they did anything and everything imaginable, from performing chores such as brewing ale... to stealing a neighbor's firewood," he said.

Tchaikovsky, on the other hand, was conscious of either infusing his work with personal problems, or avoiding doing so.

"With 'traditional' rhyme, the decision about whether two words rhyme or not is something we can explain pretty easily based on our conscious reflection (either they're the same or they're not)," Dr. Wendell Kimper, a linguistics professor at the university who supervised the research, told The Huffington Post in an email.

All dogs were fully conscious, and either in a sitting position or in dorsal recumbence.

Highly polarized view of the involvement of either conscious or unconscious processes in learning is in the centre of discussion in the paper.

This approach, however, is obviously inconsistent with maintaining that conscious states are either identical with or constituted by physical or functional states.