This origin may help explain why many brain researchers have such a narrow definition of consciousness, understood by Greenfield, in common with her many peers, as what we retain while awake and lose while asleep or anaesthetised.
Tables of kings and queens, though not very useful, are at least verifiable, but no one learns that kind of history any more, and much of what we retain about the past is a collection of factoids, received opinions and accumulated moral judgments.
(FR) What we should retain from this sitting is that we have debated at length a report on European security, whose content is for the most part completely out of date, and that we have refrained, by a great majority, from debating the war in Iraq at a time when its outcome is at stake and its consequences concern our security first and foremost.
What we say: "True Detective retains an odd power, a way of lazily coiling around you before pulling tight.
On the back nine I kept looking at the leaderboard, trying to figure what we needed to retain the Cup as they won point after point.
Rob Tincknell, chief executive officer for Battersea Power Station Development Company, said: "We feel that what we are proposing retains and respects the integrity of this historic landmark whilst also creating vibrant living, working and recreational space that this part of London needs".
And just imagine what we will all retain because of it: Liberty!
Because of our Stay Interview process, we are better positioned to do what we can to retain our great Hanapin team!" - Rebecca Reott, Associate Director of HR Hanapin Marketing.
"We have to reconcile why we are here in the suburbs and how do we retain what we love about them without sacrificing other parts of it," said Marion S. Sinek, the town supervisor of New Castle, which includes Chappaqua.
People, terrain, activities, all come together to give a resort its individual character, and that's what we're committed to retaining.
