Although the story is told in the third person, Carla is the focus of consciousness; the narrative unfolds through her memories, feelings, responses to friends and colleagues both black and white, her desire for Maxwell and her wish to bear his child before it is too late.
Wilhelm Wundt captured what we have in mind in his distinction between the field of consciousness (Blickfeld) and the focus of consciousness (Blickpunkt) (Wundt 1874, Vol. II, p. 67).
More significantly, in the early 1930s his younger colleague Tanabe Hajime and his former student and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun criticized Nishida's focus on consciousness and lack of attention to history and social being; Nishida subsequently developed his notions of the historical world and the historical body.
The whole place is super-expansive by design and feeling, idyllic for focused streams of consciousness.
He added that guidelines focusing on loss of consciousness were misdirected.
Ulysses is seen by many as one of the most influential works of the 20th century and focuses on the stream-of-consciousness wanderings through Dublin of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom.
Neurobiological explanations of consciousness focus on brain functions, he said.
A deluge of mostly archival material — pamphlets, broadsheets, posters, documents, photographs, videos — with only occasional artworks, its main focus is the evolution of consciousness and collective spaces that culminated in the Woman's Building, founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by Judy Chicago, the designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and the art historian Arlene Raven.
Nearly all discussions that focus on the type of consciousness that is associated with a specific perceptual occasion (e.g., visual consciousness with an instance of visual perception), seek to answer the question of causal priority (which is prior, sensation or cognitive apprehension?) by examining the nature of contact itself.
The meditator is guided by an intention to self-regulate, to self-explore, and finally to self-liberate using an attentive moment-by-moment focus on the contents of consciousness with an attitude of compassionate open-heartedness.
Our armpits may be the focus of much self-consciousness and advertisement, but they contribute less than 1percentt of total sweat: one study (sponsored by antiperspirant manufacturer Unilever) found that antiperspirant applied to the armpits of athletes made no difference at all to their body cooling patterns: the odor-free group did not overheat.
