In olden days, like the 60s of the last century, drugs were more popularly used for "consciousness-expanding," letting go of the ego and the petty particularities of the personality, and tapping into "universal consciousness".
Proceeding, for some reason, in numbered paragraphs, he walks the reader through the principles of "post-Flaubertian" narrative, with an emphasis on free indirect style and other devices used for rendering consciousness.
The Glasgow Coma Scale is ubiquitously used for assessing consciousness.
As for the uses of consciousness, Lorenz ([1977], p. 128) tells of an orangutan placed in a room with a box in one corner and a banana too high to reach in the opposite corner.
As Bakhtin (1984) reminds us: "Never use for objectifying or finalizing another's consciousness anything that might be inaccessible to that consciousness, that might lie outside its field of vision" (p. 278).
One model which materialists use for their reductive view of consciousness is from physics: for instance, in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics, the temperature of a gas is explained in terms of the mean kinetic energy of its constituent molecules.
Block (1995) and others have used "phenomenal consciousness" for sense (4), without distinguishing it from sense (3).
He plans to buy new skates; he'll lift some weights this summer and he may look into those relaxation & visualization techniques some athletes use for getting rid of self-consciousness.
She fought for consciousness.
There is meaning only for consciousness.
