Sentence examples for described consciousness from inspiring English sources

She might also have cited Sartre, who memorably described consciousness as "a wind blowing from nowhere toward the world".

In "Consciousness Explained," a 1991 best-seller, he described consciousness as something like the product of multiple, layered computer programs running on the hardware of the brain.

William James described consciousness as the "alternation of flights and perchings," suggesting that we tend to overvalue the "perchings," the nouns or the primary verbs in a sentence that steal the spotlight from the little words, like "in," "and," "but," "or," and "of".

Thus, Horgan and others have described consciousness as "self-presenting" (Horgan, Tienson, and Graham 2005; Horgan and Kriegel 2007; the usage appears to follow Chisholm 1981, but Chisholm actually has an indubitability rather than a self-intimation thesis in mind).

Wilber described consciousness as a spectrum with ordinary awareness at one end, and more profound types of awareness at higher levels.

Dictionaries describe consciousness as the state of being awake and aware of our own existence.

Describing consciousness as ambiguous, Beauvoir identifies our ambiguity with the idea of failure.

Descartes does not describe consciousness in terms of sentiment, and this addition raises important questions is consciousness simply a kind of sensation?

Descriptive psychology (to which Brentano sometimes also referred as "phenomenology") aims at describing consciousness from a first-person point of view.

As initially developed by Bernard Baars (1988)) global workspace theory describes consciousness in terms of a competition among processors and outputs for a limited capacity resource that "broadcasts" information for widespread access and use.

Due to his introspectionist approach of describing consciousness from a first person point of view, on one hand, and his rigorous style as well as his contention that philosophy should be done with exact methods like the natural sciences, on the other, Brentano is often considered a forerunner of both the phenomenological movement and the tradition of analytic philosophy.