('Transparent' here means that while I am conscious via conscious states, I am not conscious of them. I 'see through' them, as it were; hence 'transparency'.) First, all claims for both EP and NEP that we have considered would seem to go through even if the transparency thesis is true.
However, the thought of someone drilling into my skull while I am conscious (this kind of brain surgery is done while you are awake so that you can "test" the equipment before they plug the whole back up) makes me want to just hold a flag as a prop and pretend like I'm waving it all the time in a patriotic gesture instead of shaking.
While I'm conscious of the media stories about how an "anxiety epidemic" is sweeping Generation Y, I tend to see it as a symptom of that instability – not just when it comes to rental properties but also our jobs, which are frequently low paid or founded on unreliable zero-hours or freelance contracts.
No doubt the gaps between how I react to what I see and another spectator's reaction widen and proliferate with other audiences abroad, and I am conscious that while these reactions are unavailable to me, they contextualize mine.
Having "work" done is the new norm, you see, and I am conscious that, while I am content to look my age and confidently declare myself an intervention-free zone, I frequently stand out from the scalpel-ed, Botox-ed crowd as the one "who doesn't".
And yet, while reading "Like Beauty" I was conscious that, had I read it in a sci-fi anthology when I was 15, I would have been awestruck by it, moved beyond tears, changed for ever.
While profiling her earlier this year, I was conscious of trying to put her at ease, but more often she was the one making me comfortable around her.
A short time ago you printed a letter which presented the theory that there is no such thing as a curve in baseball While reading this particular letter, I was conscious of an almost overpowering drowsiness.
By Donald Larkin The New Yorker, June 21 , 1941P. 71 A short time ago you printed a letter which presented the theory that there is no such thing as a curve in baseball While reading this particular letter, I was conscious of an almost overpowering drowsiness.
I was conscious while it happened, but because I was in a trance it didn't hurt.
At just the right moment, the fully mature extra eggs would then be collected from the follicles with a needle while I am under conscious sedation, in a procedure that lasts about 20 minutes.
