They take center stage in consciousness and decision-making in ways we can't even fathom.
Moreover the Wall Street bail-out has heightened a sense of populist antipathy - at this stage class consciousness sounds overambitious - towards the inept, wealthy stewards of the American economy.
Each of the presidential candidates, collectively, represents the stage of consciousness of our nation.
His major work, the Jūjū shinron ("The Ten Stages of Consciousness"), written in Chinese in a poetic style, classified Confucianism, Taoism, and all the existing Buddhist literature into 10 stages, the last and highest stage being that of Shingon philosophy.
The key for Locke is that what grounds both prudential concern and moral responsibility is the personal identity relation, a relation uniquely unifying temporally distinct person-stages via consciousness.
Various "Stages of Consciousness" (from the "naïve" to the "critical" and the "magical") were employed in the curriculum as lenses through which to observe and analyze subjects within literature, history and current affairs.
As we evolve culturally from traditional to modern to postmodern, through Integral stages of consciousness and cognition, we begin to gain a capacity to see all of our human experience, and all of the experience that's happening in the world process around us, as being part of a Kosmic process of unfolding.
First, there is no golden standard for the way in which the division of stages of consciousness is described and this also limits the use of brain function monitors in differentiating between consciousness and unconsciousness, especially during transitional stages (Alkire et al., 2008).
At some stage, he lost consciousness.
She continues, citing examples of plants that respond dramatically to their environment, before cautioning that it's not possible to say at what stage in evolution consciousness kicks in.
