For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live.
All you do is explore, passing your consciousness from object to organism and back across seemingly infinite biomes, planets, and celestial bodies.
What is far harder to predict is whether the nearly unprecedented attention it is attracting will pave the way for a broader revival of public interest in boxing, or will instead with a final bang mark the sport's passing from mainstream consciousness for good.
The retentional structure of experience, that is, the fact that when I am experiencing something, each passing moment of consciousness does not simply disappear at the next moment but is kept in intentional currency, constitutes a coherency that stretches over an experienced temporal duration.
Mussard remarks on another tension, a "triple consciousness" for passing as white, being black, but resisting America's definition of blackness given her European ancestry.
It makes me sad and angry to think about how Kristen Schaal's character, Carol, was introduced in the pilot: Phil regains consciousness after passing out and has an intense vision of the woman who is caring for him as he wakes up.
Beyond time describes a state of mind when time passes without full consciousness and no awareness of what is going on.
"The closest concept I can think of that could describe the transition from the human consciousness to the proto-consciousness that Stuart Hameroff talks about is death," says Athanasiou. "A moment where our consciousness passes from the human realm into another realm that is undetectable by human senses.
In this period, one's consciousness passes through what Buddhists call the "clear light moment," an opportunity to propel one's consciousness into higher rebirth, even enlightenment.
We begin with a brief discussion of the total quality management (TQM) concept that passed through industry consciousness in the early 1990s.
