Consciousness ascribes meaning to the pattern of photons hitting your retina, thus differentiating you from a digital camera.
If the pattern of your consciousness is transferred onto a computer, is the pattern "you" or a simulation of your mind?
He titles several of the new drawings "thoughtforms," suggesting provisional maps of the patterns of consciousness.
Yet how we are able to perceive and act upon the changes ahead will depend very much upon the patterns of human consciousness, that is, our cognitive, perceptual and instinctive structures.
To render Aron believably, Shepard had not only to sublimate copious research; he had to channel the consciousness and patterns of speech of a Jewish-Polish boy from the 1930s while divesting himself of most of the tools and tactics a typical writer uses to tell a story: elevated diction, reader-directed introspection, knowing metaphor.
In spite of the fact that I'm a strong person, I couldn't turn off my consciousness from this pattern of thought.
An anesthesiologist, for example, could apply magnetic pulses to a patient's brain every few seconds and instantly see whether it responded with the rich complexity of consciousness or the meager patterns of unconsciousness.
Both behavioral levels of consciousness and the correlated patterns of electrical activity are related to the function of a part of the brainstem called the reticular formation.
On the one hand, it has been claimed that the ventral stream conveys visual consciousness, whereas unconscious patterns of neural activity are to be found in parietal areas along the dorsal stream and in subcortical pathways (Milner and Goodale 1995; Ohman 2002; Pasley et al. 2004; Fang and He 2005; Tong et al. 2006).
The point is over the decade of the 90's and into the fledgling days of 21st century, our consciousness was not attuned to the emerging pattern of attacks.
