Sentence examples for lay consciousness from inspiring English sources

It is possible that calorific expenditure is more easily linked to stair climbing in lay consciousness though there is no evidence for this suggestion.

For example, in The Psychology of Imagination (1940), Sartre argues that Husserl remains captive to the idealist principle of immanence (the object of consciousness lies within consciousness), despite his stated goal of combating idealism, when he seems to consider images as miniatures of the perceptual object reproduced or retained in the mind.

"At midnight the patient lay without consciousness, and almost without pulse".

By their very nature these symbols cannot point directly to an external world (even given an unshakable belief in the existence of that world) lying beyond consciousness.

Woz noted that the difficulty in emulating human consciousness lay in replicating memory: "It seems to be everywhere in the brain, like a hologram".

The foundation of consciousness lies in the city's awareness of the motives, personalities and moods of its inhabitants.

It was as if the ideas associated with the symptoms were quarantined from the consciousness and lay neglected by normal curiosity.

Although Tegmark rejects many current speculations that bemuse lay people (eg quantum consciousness; humans as simulations in some alien's computer game), he constantly returns to a notion equally outlandish: a version of quantum mechanics that implies countless clones of ourselves inhabiting parallel universes.

There is no "answer" – or, if there is, it lies in the consciousness of the observer and this is what makes it special.

Behind the achievements of individual African American writers during the antislavery era lies the communal consciousness of millions of slaves, whose oral tradition in song and story has given form and substance to much subsequent literature by black Americans.

Dennett points out that the fallacy lies in locating consciousness in Searle, who is merely a low-level robot in a complex system, whereas it actually is an emergent property of the entire system in which Searle is embedded.