Sentence examples for merely consciousness from inspiring English sources

But his meaning was gloriously, luminously clear: All life really is in constant, self-revealing investigation, all space, time and matter merely consciousness ever waking up to itself through, well, us!

Whatever integration of bodily functions remains is maintained by external supports and by bodily systems other than the brain, which merely preserves consciousness (Bartlett and Youngner 1988, 205 6).

How could such a percept then acquire the properties distinctive of phenomenal consciousness merely by virtue of me coming to believe (in non-inferential fashion) that I am undergoing an experience of red?

Is a drug which causes loss of consciousness merely a placebo?

Stretching sometimes involves merely stretching your consciousness, stretching your belief system: what do you believe about that goal?

Or perhaps it's merely that unself-consciousness and self-satisfaction are developmental stages in some artists' lives: the enviable concentration of someone who works only for his own pleasure becomes the annoying complacency of someone who thinks that the same solution will always please.

Certainly, Darren Aronofsky's film Black Swan has pushed an art form once thought rarefied into the popular consciousness, but this has merely caught the tailwind of a trend that had its own momentum.

Some interpret this research as showing that consciousness is merely an observer of the output of non-conscious mechanisms.

The soul was superfluous since consciousness was merely an effect of mechanistic processes, and sensibility, the source of intelligence, was a property of the nervous system.

The idea is to add a little fragrance, something that will merely seep into your consciousness as you eat the dessert.

With her unique combination, in post-war British history, of tectonic achievement and combustible personality, she is the leader from whom there is no escape; in comparison, ten-year Tony Blair merely grazed the national consciousness.