He defines the word fairly conservatively as a phenomenon in which "a person purports to transmit information or messages directly from a personality or consciousness other than his or her own, usually through 'automatic writing' or 'trance speaking'; this other personality usually claims to be a nonphysical spirit or being".
It's you, in every sense of the word: your intelligence, demeanour, personality, and consciousness.
There have been tiny shifts, I would say, in my personality and consciousness, but nothing radical.
The section on the soul is an able attack on the related doctrines of "vitalism", the soul and mind-body dualism the intuitive and still widely held body of ideas that hold that living creatures are animated by some sort of supernatural spark, and that an individual's personality or consciousness can survive death.
A damaged brain threatens the very essence of personality and consciousness.
Overt HE is characterized by various symptoms encompassing neuromuscular abnormalities, intellectual functions, personality and consciousness, traditionally graded on four stages according to West-Haven criteria [ 3].
The development of memory encompasses the development of language, the development of consciousness, personality and personal narrative.
But there are aspects of our experience (consciousness, personality, moral obligation, beauty) that may not be merely parts of the causal system.
Just as some objects are edible, but only in relation to a digestive system, so Mead thought of experience, life, consciousness, personality, and value as objective properties of nature which emerge only under (and hence are relative to) specific sets of conditions.
These notebooks represent the strain to personality of unintegrated consciousness, and it remains as characteristic of (female) experience now as then that what Lessing calls the existence of "false dichotomies and divisions" – the self as fragmentary and compartmentalised and thus as potentially dishonest in and of itself – damages individuality and its status in culture.
What force is it that, without close-ups to simulate intimacy or words to aid communication, imprints the dancers' personalities into our consciousness?
