Sentence examples for thinking about consciousness from inspiring English sources

Just like no snowflake or planet is the same as another, we must be on our guard against using anthropomorphic prejudice when thinking about consciousness.

At least in the West, the traditional — and perhaps still intuitive to many people — way of thinking about consciousness is as primarily an innate endowment of humans, which other animals may or may not share in virtue of being sufficiently like us.

And at the root of his thinking about consciousness and the mind-body problem lies a superstition -- a dangerous superstition for science and society - the belief that humans are separate from the rest of nature.

The answer may lie in some new thinking about consciousness.

Yet American mythology about 1776 portrays Britain as a cross between a Renaissance autocracy and Nazi Germany, rather than as the country that bestowed upon America the legacies of personal freedom, the rule of law and capitalism.Andrew PorterWirral, MerseysideBrainiacsSIR – Your survey of the brain captured the complexities of current thinking about consciousness (December 23rd).

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit was a seminal work in shaping thinking about consciousness and history.

Worth thinking about, indeed.

Recently, he has been thinking about attention, consciousness, cognitive penetrability, phenomenal concepts, and the contents of perceptual experience.

The paper goes on to argue that thinking about animal consciousness in this way helps in formulating a more precise functional characterisation of the mechanisms of conscious awareness.

Perhaps the most troublesome and troubling word of all in thinking about plants is "consciousness".

Michael Bay's Transformers films don't really count for the purposes of this article: they're based on fun toys that were designed to appeal to small children rather than get us thinking about the nature of consciousness, sentience and essential humanity.