This campus-diversity consciousness has over the years filtered into the liberal media, and not subtly.
Suggesting that political progress can't emerge from conservative storytelling, "Privilege" reflects, in its stylistic diversity, the expanded consciousness on which social change depends.
The evolution of the cosmos from the big bang to today is characterized by a movement toward life, toward diversity, and toward consciousness.
Again there are a wide range of specific theories and models that have been proposed, appealing to a variety of quantum phenomena to explain a diversity of features of consciousness.
But this self-consciousness about diversity also reflects one of the show's themes.
"When major diversity efforts are mounted, and consciousness is raised, and special efforts are made, and you look five years later at the quality of the people who have been hired during that period, how many are there who have turned out to be much better than the institutional norm who wouldn't have been found without a greater search.
It is an enterprise, he argues, that spurs amazement, because if it succeeds, it will show that out of accident and diversity, something as miraculous as human consciousness can be born.
Luciano argued that the ads reflected the company's social consciousness and advocacy of tolerance and diversity.
"We wanted to tap into people's consciousness through the sheer beauty and diversity of plants," said Dr. Christine Flanagan, an ecologist and manager of programs.
These included the need for more women's voices and diversity in Hollywood and the media ("Media creates consciousness. It's the modern day oral tradition..
