If those elements fade from managers' and employees' consciousness, the framework is in jeopardy.
They note that physicist Richard Feynman and mathematician Norbert Weiner described the universe as kind of a giant digital computer decades ago, and that physicist Edward Fredkin explored biological processes and consciousness through the framework of simple computer programs.
He'd shifted his consciousness into a cosmic framework that no one on earth had experienced before.
Modern science has abandoned the soul in favor of probing the framework of consciousness, a concept that is only slightly less elusive.
Primitivism and Medievalism had awakened interest in neglected early texts; scientific Positivism encouraged a scrupulous regard for facts; and the German idea that each country's literature had sprung from a unique national consciousness provided a conceptual framework.
Dennett has created a remarkable oeuvre in which he has tried to work on notions like consciousness, freedom within the framework of scientific materialism, and this, I am sure, has contributed greatly to his feeling that his life is meaningful, because it connects to the vast project of the Enlightenment.
Using telepathy as a lens with which to perform a feminist reading of the capabilities of the modernist novel, this essay illustrates how telepathy's utopian vision of consciousness offers a feminist framework for imagining modes of relation that are intersubjective and non-hierarchical.
The dissociation of metacognition from task-specific systems has direct implications for the conceptual framework of consciousness (Crick & Koch, 2003; Ramsoy & Overgaard, 2004; Tononi, 2008; Lau, 2008).
This fits human consciousness into a normal biological framework: it offers the possessor of bigger and better brains the kind of advantage that natural selection can see and work on.
Indeed part of the motivation for representationalism is to show that one can accommodate all the facts about consciousness, perhaps within a physicalist framework, without needing to find room for qualia or any other apparently non-representational mental properties (Dennett 1990, Lycan 1996, Carruthers 2000).
