Sentence examples for mental consciousness from inspiring English sources

The medics believed he was in a persistent vegetative state, devoid of mental consciousness or physical feeling.

The scientific revolution of the 17th century, which has given rise to such extraordinary progress in the understanding of nature, depended on a crucial limiting step at the start: It depended on subtracting from the physical world as an object of study everything mental – consciousness, meaning, intention or purpose.

Not only does Tsongkhapa deny the existence of self-awareness, but also the notion of a "foundational consciousness" separate from mental consciousness.

Hence at the time when the mental consciousness delivers it judgment, the perceptual cognition no longer exists since all things are momentary.

When we make a perceptual judgement, at that time we do not perceive the external object as it is in our mental consciousness (manovijñāna) that carries out the judgement and since the visual consciousness that perceives the object has already ceased.

Nagisa's story was written to incorporate what Maeda described as a "perfect family" with a focus on mental consciousness.

Perception, in the form of active sensory and mental consciousnesses, is caused by the "storehouse consciousness" (ālayavijñāna), which stores, in mental form, the seeds of all of our future experiences.

Or we could try to explain the subjectivity of either qualitative or meta-mental consciousness.

One can refer specifically to phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness, reflexive or meta-mental consciousness, and narrative consciousness among other varieties.

Arguments of a far more empirical sort have challenged the causal status of meta-mental consciousness, at least in so far as its presence can be measured by the ability to report on one's mental state.

Such worries have been raised especially with regard to qualia and qualitative consciousness (Huxley 1874, Jackson 1982, Chalmers 1996), but challenges have also been leveled against the causal status of other sorts including meta-mental consciousness (Velmans 1991).