All variants of the approach have this much in common: they compress the experiencing of change into momentary (or near-momentary) phases of consciousness.
A marked difference in these cities arose in two phases of consciousness in the gay community: "Before" in 1980, and "After" by 1985.
The noosphere is a way of helping us deal with this "phase transition" of consciousness that may well be akin to the phase transition between liquid water and water vapor -- a change in degree that effects a change in kind.
President Barack Obama announced last month that clean energy specialist John Bryson will head the Commerce Department, further expunging the ill affection toward "bad guy" utility companies and suggesting that we have entered a new phase of climate consciousness.
Phase in and out of consciousness without worrying about future consequences; or, 'future tripping.'" If Urie's sentiment seems a bit flip, that's because the now 26-year-old got drugs in -- and out -- of his system at an early age.
If this is the case, our experience of change and persistence cannot essentially depend on experiential connections between the neighbouring phases of our streams of consciousness, connections of the sort Extensional models posit and require: for if such connections were to exist, adjoining stream-phases would not be logically independent of one another.
Someone might object: 'There cannot be an experience of succession without genuine succession, and the latter consists of the coming into being of successive phases of a stream of consciousness.' If this view could be shown to be correct, the Growing Block theorist would have the upper hand.
In particular, predicting the abrupt transition from consciousness to unconsciousness resembling a phase transition as well as the biphasic response during induction of anesthesia leading to a paradoxical phase prior to the loss of consciousness [21].
It does not seem implausible to suppose the same holds more generally: does not each brief phase of a typical stream of consciousness seem to merge smoothly and seamlessly with its successor?
If diachronic co-consciousness were transitive, all the phases of a continuous stream of consciousness would be experienced together – we would be back with the totum simul.
