Like any good memoirist, Wood is shamelessly honest and devoted to his own irresponsibility: lying, thieving and other disreputable behavior (like giving his first wife "a Quaalude sandwich" so he could flirt with her replacement) merit only fleeting self-consciousness.
The idea of the immortal soul is challenged by the anatta ("no soul") doctrine, with its claim that the personal mind or soul is not an enduring substance but a succession of fleeting moments of consciousness.
The Fly Boy Blue lyric is almost stream of consciousness: fleeting, broken images of travel and coming home, with a killer line about a politician: "a chinless prefect gone Godzilla".
However, there is still a very high rate of misdiagnosis because it is easily possible to miss important signs (for example, fleeting signs of consciousness) and this can lead, for example, to minimally conscious patients being incorrectly diagnosed as vegetative.
Maybe, particularly the directive requiring doctors in future to review video footage a second time even after a head injury assessment has been passed to make 100% sure there was no fleeting loss of consciousness.
When these movies are playing in festivals or theatrical release, filmmakers and actors will speak solemnly, if unsurely, about the cause in interviews, and, for a fleeting moment, "awareness" of the issue will be raised in the public consciousness.
Spirit, or consciousness, is momentary, fleeting, and depends on the physical forces of our bodies and environment in order to exist.
Religious imagery and emotions, as well as a consciousness of fleeting time, were deeply ingrained in him.
The new "Bird 1," with a stark drumbeat and chantlike melody that hinted at Peter Gabriel, was a cinematic stream of consciousness: "He caught a fleeting glimpse of a man moving uphill pursued by a bus," Mr. Hyde intoned.
David Hume was closer to the truth, describing the process of consciousness as "fluctuating, uncertain, fleeting..., in a perpetual flux", thoughts and experiences "succeed[ing] each other with an inconceivable rapidity".
There was that first slippery awareness, darting in and out of my consciousness, white-hot and fleeting.
