One of the most poignant images conjured in the collective consciousness from the sinking of the Titanic is that of the band continuing to play while the ship went down.
Now, like so many ideas that were at first highly controversial, people say 'Well that's obvious!'" "May-Britt and Edvard's research lies at the very heart of the cognitive-neuroscience enterprise," Stanislas Dehaene, who studies consciousness at the Collège de France in Paris told Nature.
It hasn't really penetrated the public consciousness in the way some thought would happen.
Public consciousness, as well as opposition and outrage, will grow as the world's people, not just a handful of diplomats, can read the cables of "the embassy where all information about everything sooner or later arrives".
Douglas has this year been widely applauded for his role in Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, as well as helping to raise public consciousness about links between the HPV virus and cancer.
I had some minor consciousness of widespread violence against Tasmania's Aboriginal people, and I was moved by the shameful stories of the forced removal of Aboriginal children.
He popped into consciousness last month for re-posting a rant about "wanting a white President".
Still their most commercially successful record, it propelled them out of the Olympia DIY scene on to bigger stages and into mainstream consciousness.
"I lost consciousness," he says, speaking in his first newspaper interview since fleeing Belarus.
"We want people to watch and think about the meaning of human existence and consciousness and mortality," said Margot Heller, director of the South London Gallery.
And because there has been some (partial) good news on the headline problem – deforestation – it has faded in our collective consciousness in the past few years.
