"What I did become more and more directed towards consciousness than towards what we can do without it," Cleeremans said.
One can affirm the existence of one's soul from direct consciousness of one's self (what one means by "I"), and one can imagine this happening even in the absence of external objects and bodily organs.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation brings latent working memories back to direct consciousness.
Some philosophers, for example, George Berkeley, have argued that the only grounds that can justify beliefs about ordinary things is direct consciousness.
In contrast to the Groundwork III argument from freedom to the validity of the moral law, the second Critique argues that our "direct consciousness" of the moral law grounds our conception of ourselves as free: Our consciousness of our ability to do what we judge that we ought to, in spite of temptations to act otherwise, makes us conscious of our freedom (CPrR 5 30).
You then direct your consciousness to your breathing, an object, or a word or phrase known as a mantra.
So it's not far-fetched to think that we can direct our consciousness -- that undefinable experience that cannot be explained by the physical brain -- in ways that we desire.
Capability, by contrast, is a conditioning efficacy externally directed towards another consciousness series: it constitutes a condition that assists another dharma in the production of its own effect (Cox 2004A, 570 573; Williams 1981, 240 243).
When you apply pressure to these points, energy is directed to your consciousness and you will feel less drowsy.
The distinction is sometimes marked as that between transitive and intransitive notions of consciousness, with the former involving some object at which consciousness is directed (Rosenthal 1986).
