And as one needs a brain to be conscious in any of the word's multiple meanings, there must be something about the human brain that differentiates us from the bonobos and enables consciousness.
The brainstem includes the medulla, which controls spontaneous respiration, the reticular activating system, a sort of on/off switch that enables consciousness without affecting its contents (the latter job belonging to the cerebrum), as well as the midbrain and pons.
Several interviewees believed that physiotherapists were particularly good at noticing consciousness or that their treatments enabled awareness to be more readily detected because positioning could aid alertness or because pain and exhaustion could mask consciousness or limit a patient's ability to respond.
In Paris, the deeply impressive Institute du Monde Arabe has enabled that consciousness to grow.
Our brains enable our consciousness, just as our legs enable our walking, as the anthropologist Tim Ingold has pointed out.
Having awareness of one's holistic attributes as they pertain to authentic confidence enables a consciousness that encourages continuous learning and daily iterative improvement.
Jains hold that the karmic matter is actually an agent that enables the consciousness to act within the material context of this universe.
One other enabling variable, stigma consciousness, was significantly associated with treatment utilization for Coloured participants only.
Channeling people other than the author also makes possible the presentation of multiple consciousnesses, enabling novels to capture some of the populous cacophony of real life.
The story is told in prose of intermittently easygoing lucidity, but his primary training as a neurologist compels him into passages of detailed neuro-anatomy, locating brain regions functionally responsible for enabling particular aspects of consciousness.
Upasni Maharaj, he later said, helped him to integrate his mystical experiences with normal consciousness, thus enabling him to function in the world without diminishing his experience of God-realization.
