But it's testament to how impressively the film series has grown in the public consciousness that it would be no surprise if Francis Lawrence's movie became Hollywood's fifth $1bn film of 2015.
In three Schubert songs, he reined in a couple of climaxes by imposing a veneer of self-consciousness; but it would be hard to find a better performance of "Death and the Maiden".
But, till the level of men's collective consciousness is raised, it would be wiser, for sure, to discriminate each time.
Though some theorists call this across-time process unity of consciousness, a more distinctive name for it would be the continuity of consciousness.
If it's anything like consciousness as we know it, it would be Hell.
It would be good to see a replication of Hampton (2001), in which the same result was obtained for more than one monkey, but since we don't think meta-representation is sufficient for consciousness, further experiments would be needed in any event to show that this is the type of metamemory that does the trick.
Consciousness, it would seem, is itself a "Darwinian algorithm" that our brains execute in order to replace older algorithms, such as domestic violence, that have long outlived their usefulness.
The great Trinidadian historian CLR James, who wrote the best book ever written about cricket, Beyond a Boundary, had long argued that true West Indian independence and the national consciousness it required would be impossible until the West Indies had taken on the colonisers at their sacred game and mastered it sufficiently to defeat them at home in open play: 1950 was that moment.
Shushkevich contended that by developing a European consciousness, Belarus would be able to improve its "people's economic wellbeing and facilitate the process of political liberalization".
As he expresses it, "this unity of consciousness would be impossible if in the cognition of the manifold the mind could not become conscious of the identity of the function by means of which this manifold is synthetically combined into one cognition" (A108).
