Some of Mr. Smith's stories have unusually piquant resonance in the present day: the Bright Young Things of Moscow who danced the fox trot in the 19-teens were denounced by the Revolutionary propagandists Maxim Gorky and Anatoly Lunacharsky as "decadent and lacking in class consciousness," he notes.
It is claimed, for example, that we can easily conceive of creatures who enjoy the postulated kinds of higher-order representation, related in the right sort of way to their first-order perceptual states, but where those creatures are wholly lacking in phenomenal consciousness.
In actuality, these so-called jokes were thinly disguised, general, modern, stereotypical representations of Jews and the Jewish religion as rich, self-absorbed, clannish, bloodsucking, and immature and/or lacking in religious consciousness.
Using multichannel video installations, she caught the participants joking, singing, making lewd remarks and teasing one another, all in a manner notably lacking in self-consciousness.
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Indeed, I was curious, and scrambled into it, feeling a little foolish and self-conscious — but less so than I might have been, because Temple herself was so wholly lacking in self-consciousness.
It may turn out to be lacking in a machine consciousness, which is not bound to carry over into its workings the precisely human operations of the precisely human ego, though that is not to say the machine will be without feelings.
He has now devoted a book to a society -- our own -- that he believes is lacking in both humanity and consciousness.
It is consciousness that is lacking in digital computers.
Descartes regarded nonhuman animals as machines, devoid of mind and consciousness, and hence lacking in sentience.
