Sentence examples for free conscious from inspiring English sources

John Gray writes in his 2002 British best seller, "Straw Dogs," "Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded animals".

Values, then, have a causal impact upon how people act and thus also on their life trajectories; but we cannot expect these impacts to flow from free, conscious choices that persons make.

Values make a causal difference, but, given Nietzsche's epiphenomenalism about consciousness (discussed, above, in 1.1), they do not make this difference because of free, conscious choices individuals make to adopt certain moral rules or cultivate certain dispositions of character.

In pain-free conscious dogs, Garofalo et al. [ 32] reported the presence of dysphoria in all animals after 1 mg/kg of methadone was intravenously administered.

Although this problem obviously has much to do with the philosophy of mind, it is less important than it used to be, in part because there are already so many problematic mental phenomena that need not involve free will; conscious and intentional states, for example, often occur quite independently of issues of choice.

"Do you wish to change your gown?" She smoothed the fabric with her free hand, conscious of the dust from riding, but her fingers, when they reached her waist, recalled the warmth of Moray's hand upon that place, and suddenly she did not wish to change her gown just yet, as though by doing so she stood to lose the memory of his touch.

This occurs when the physician prior to the exam does not explain the risks and benefits connected to the diagnostic act to the patient, and the patient cannot exercise an explicit, free and conscious choice (acceptance or rejection).

In both cases, the patient is unable to make a free and conscious choice.

ALEXIA NIEDZIELSKI, editor at large at Industrie and a founder of Ever Manifesto, a free eco-conscious publication based in London.

Unlike many technology companies that have become less freewheeling since the dot-com bust, Google has maintained a casual corporate culture with on-site massage therapists, free health-conscious meals and games of roller hockey in the parking lot.

In this book, which stands much more as a chronicle of that judgment, or revolution, than anything else – a personal testimony of time and place and experience – we are introduced to a writer who seems lighter, freer, less conscious of the weight of her prose and the story she has set to tell.