True or False: We are not communicating when we don't respond to another's message. Knowing how to spell a word is an example of shallow processing, but knowing the meaning of the word or putting it in context is an intermediate level of processing. A. True B. False ...
Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 132 Even if ...
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. — Steven Pinker 48 Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible,...
Recently, I quickly read Daniel Dennet’sBreaking the Spell, and quickly assessed the many ways he makes use of Nietzsche in that book. His multiple references to this one philosopher created multiple “wormholes” for jumping through the text and making more connections before reading further. It...
The answer to this question - can you reallyseeit - is, yes, sometimes. It really depends on the type of visualization and your level of waking consciousness. Let me explain. The Three Levels of Visualization To my mind, there are three depths or levels of visualization: ...
The intuition here is analogous to the one animating the so-called hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers 1996; cf. McGinn 1989): How could biochemical processes in the brain give rise to phenom- enal states such as being in pain or experiencing color, when phenomenal and bio- chemical ...
medical definition of heat stroke is a core body temperature greater than 105°F, with complications involving the central nervous system that occur after exposure to high temperatures. Other common symptoms include nausea, seizures, confusion, disorientation, and, sometimes, loss of consciousness or ...
Oh, you thought it was easy to read closely enough to catch that the narrative has used the same image on page 12 and page 315? Or that the writer fell so in love with the word verdant that it appears every time that anything vaguely green flashes by the reader’s consciousness...
“In the nineteenth century, neurological thinking about the means by which the body communicates with the brain emphasized the importance of the concept of coenaesthesia, a mainly unconscious sense of the normal functioning of the body and its organs which emerges to full consciousness only when ...
“The first sentence will come spontaneously, so compelling is the truth that with every passing second there is a sentence unknown to our consciousness which is only crying out to be heard.” If the unconscious makes possible the mystery of any writing, then the Surrealists were at least ...