In fact, one's own past consciousness becomes the object of present consciousness.
Although New York City is, in many ways, a more diverse and far safer place today, the same issues are reflected in our present consciousness.
But in looking backwards, and in analysing the reverberation of long-ago events in present consciousness, these stories acknowledge that there are as many perspectives on events that have been and gone as there are possible projections about eventualities yet to come.
The patients presented consciousness impairment (Glasgow coma score: 13 [6; 15]), opioid syndrome (48%), serotonin syndrome (36%) and seizures (24%).
The patients presented consciousness impairment (Glasgow coma score 3 [3 + 9]), tonic clonic seizures (12%), mydriasis (23%), QT lengthening (55%) and QRS enlargement (50%).
Our episodic (or autobiographical) memories supply us with access to our own pasts; thanks to such memories our earlier states of consciousness are not altogether lost to us: they can be recreated (or relived), albeit imperfectly, in our present consciousness.
Peter Forrest advocates a form of the Growing Block model in which consciousness only exists in the present; consciousness, he believes, is a by-product of the 'frisson' generated at the interface between being and non-being.
Russell, the greatest empiricist of the first half of the twentieth century, tended to think of evidence as sense data, mental items of one's present consciousness with which one is immediately acquainted.
This is the mechanism by which I would be justified, for example, in anticipating the afterlife, just in case at the resurrection there will be someone to whom my present consciousness extends.
But in Being and Time Heidegger conceives the human being as Dasein, which is not simply a present consciousness, but an event of ecstatic temporality that is open to a past (Gewesensein) that was never present (its already being-there) and a future (Zu-kunft) that is always yet to come (the possibility of death).
