Joy, he says, is a genuine state of feeling, but self-approval "belong[s] to the objective consciousness of self" (ibid).
Feeling is "immediate" self-consciousness as contrasted with "that consciousness of self which is more like an objective consciousness, being a representation of oneself, and thus mediated by self-contemplation" (The Christian Faith, §3.2).
In social movement theory, the ability to redirect public discourse toward your point of view is called "reframing," and it's a primary objective of consciousness-raising efforts of many varieties.
We developed a six-section questionnaire that covered the drugs used, modalities of drug administration, use of sedation scales and procedural pain scales, use of written local procedures, and targeted objectives of consciousness.
We investigated the use of continuous IV hypnotics and alternatives to continuous IV hypnotics, the use of local written procedure; the type of strategy used to prevent oversedation, the detection and treatment of procedural pain, and the assessment and objectives of consciousness level.
Nonetheless, Darwin (1871) and Lorenz (1978) showed how consciousness, objective knowledge, conceptual thought and moral instincts enhance their possessors' survival and reproduction.
Many subjective experiences, like pain, have objectively observable neurobiological correlates, a circumstance that gives me but not Nagel (p. 38 41), hope that we may eventually have some objective understanding of consciousness.
Class experiences emphasize that identification is a reflection of actual social and economic situations stemming from a long-term interaction with the objective world; class consciousness emphasizes that class identity is a social construct concerning people's active role in the historical process (Thompson 1966).
Yet it develops a kind of logic — a theory of meaning (today we say logical semantics) — in that it describes and analyzes objective contents of consciousness: ideas, concepts, images, propositions, in short, ideal meanings of various types that serve as intentional contents, or noematic meanings, of various types of experience.
Clearly, validating an objective marker of consciousness that can be applied to patients that are unable to interact with the external environment is challenging by definition, since, in these cases, there is no behavioural reference to assess the presence of consciousness.
Rather than undertake the specious task of documenting the actual world, Brakhage created objective documentaries of his consciousness in an effort to awaken the consciousness of his viewers.
