Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts‚ memories‚ feelings‚ sensations and environment. Your conscious experiences are constantly shifting and changing. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience‚ awareness‚ subjectivity‚ the ability to experience or to feel‚ wakefulness‚ having a sense of selfhood‚ and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty
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Consciousness Odds are that you have‚ at one point or another‚ experienced oppression. Odds are also that you have been the oppressor at times‚ whether you’ve realized it or not. Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire‚ does a clever and fantastic way of explaining how we’ve come to the duality of being both the oppressed and oppressor and how we can break away from it‚ as humanly as possible. In the attempt to break way from what we’ve been constructed to be‚ one most be conscious. Conscious
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Consciousness Physical….Or Not???? The statements “I have a guilty conscious” and “My conscious eating me alive” are phrases that have been giving physical meaning by everyday people. What has not been given merit is the imaginable state of consciousness or ones conscious. Are the statements true or just simply a saying with no meaning? For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated
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Consciousness Consciousness can be defined as awareness of the outside world and of one’s own thoughts‚ feelings‚ perceptions and other mental processes. A person’s consciousness state is constantly changing. When the changes are particularly noticeable‚ they are called altered states of consciousness. Examples of altered states include sleep‚ hypnosis‚ meditation and some drug-induced conditions. Sleep is an active and complex state. Differing levels of consciousness are described as variations
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Chapter 1: Consciousness What is consciousness?: • The awareness of our internal and external environments is an ever-changing array of thoughts‚ feelings and sensations known as consciousness. • Your consciousness consists of all the thoughts‚ feelings and memories you are aware of at any given moment. It is easy to manipulate. • Consciousness is personal because it consists of your understanding of the world around you. • Consciousness is selective because you pay attention to something’s
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Collective consciousness - a.k.a. collective conscience (French conscience collective) is the set of shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society - introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his Division of Labour in Society in 1893 - The Division of Labour in Society (French: De La Division Du Travail Social) is the dissertation of French sociologist Émile Durkheim‚ written in 1893. It was influential in advancing sociological theories and
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States of consciousness Consciousness ▪ Collective term for an individual’s perceptions‚ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and memories that are active at a given moment. Preconsciousness ▪ This is between consciousness and unconsciousness. It refers to memories that are not at the surface or at the top of the mind of a person but can be retrieved at any given time or needed. Unconsciousness ▪ It serves as a store room of these psychological feelings that are no longer accessible. Waking
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“Krsna Consciousness the Topmost Yoga System” by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This is an evaluation copy of the printed version of this book‚ and is NOT FOR RESALE. This evaluation copy is intended for personal noncommercial use only‚ under the “fair use” guidelines established by international copyright laws. You may use this electronic file to evaluate the printed version of this book‚ for your own private use‚ or for short excerpts used in academic works
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Section 4: Consciousness Pages 114-117 I. Defining Consciousness a. Consciousness is commonly defined as being aware of the immediate environment. i. For example‚ knowing when to go to class or work. b. Consciousness also deals with awareness of your thoughts‚ feelings‚ and memories. i. Examples 1. Making plans for dates. 2. Getting annoyed at your performance in school. 3. Thinking back about good times with your friends. c. Early psychologists and their studies i. When early psychologists
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Q.3 Lukes’ third dimension of power is controversial because it entails the use of the concept of ‘false consciousness’. Using examples of your own‚ defend and / or critique the hypothesis that there is such thing as ‘false consciousness’. Power has always been a contested and controversial topic and is one of the most central concepts in the social sciences. With regard to the concept of power‚ the issue of domination and what domination is has also been widely debated. While most people would
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