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Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In most types of Buddhism, serenity meditation is followed by a philosophical "insight meditation" that focuses on the idea that the universe is consciousness only, one that is perhaps indistinguishable from Monism. Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Modern investigations into and discoveries about consciousness are based on psychological statistical studies and case studies of consciousness states and the deficits caused by lesions, stroke, injury, or surgery that disrupt the normal functioning of human senses and cognition. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consciousness   (6049 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Consciousness Consciousness in the wide sense has come to be recognized in modern times as the subject-matter of a special science, psychology; or, more definitely, phenomenal or empirical psychology. The contention, however, that all states of consciousness, though not "secretions" or "products" of matter, are yet forms of activity which have their ultimate source in the brain and are intrinsically and absolutely dependent on the latter is not disposed of by this reasoning. On the other hand the aim of the modern inquirer throughout is the diligent study by introspection of different forms of consciousness, and the explanation of all complex forms of consciousness by resolving them into their simplest elements. www.newadvent.org /cathen/04274a.htm   (2322 words)

Consciousness - Eric Lormand The remainder of the entry is divided between the explanation of phenomenal consciousness and the epistemology of introspective consciousness. In a still broader sense, ‘mind&; and ‘consciousness’ are synonyms, as are ‘being mindful of&; something and ‘being conscious of’ it, so that any kind of mental state (whether or not it is an ‘attitude’) is a state of consciousness. In this sense the word ‘conscious’ can also be used as an adjective: a ‘knowing’ being such as a normal person is a conscious being, while an ‘unknowing’ being such as a plant or sleeping person is an unconscious being. www-personal.umich.edu /~lormand/phil/cons/consciousness.htm   (11905 words)

Center for Consciousness Center . Tucson . Arizona Plenary sessions will be devoted to topics including the neural-level correlate of consciousness, consciousness and chronic vegetative states, consciousness and emotion, Freud and dream science, cognitive architectures, visual fading, virtual reality, meditation and brain states and self-representational theories of consciousness and the physics of life. research on all aspects of the problem of consciousness. The conference will also feature many concurrent and poster sessions on various topics including mainstream philosophy, brain imaging techniques, quantum theories of consciousness, unconscious processes and assorted first person experiential approaches. www.consciousness.arizona.edu   (1116 words)

Consciousness in the Artificial Mind consciousness as a feedback loop where the output of the Speech [ illusion of consciousness ] equals [ consciousness ]. was designed to become aware of itself and to have consciousness mind.sourceforge.net /conscius.html   (458 words)

Consciousness Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Consciousness Revolution began with urban riots and campus fury and swelled alongside Vietnam War protests and a rebellious counterculture. The Consciousness Revolution was a period of spiritual awakening in American history, according to Strauss and Howe in their books Generations and Fourth Turning. Under Strauss and Howe's system, the era before the Consciousness Revolution was the American High; the era that follows it is the Culture Wars era. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consciousness_Revolution   (237 words)

False consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia False consciousness is the Marxist hypothesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society mislead the proletariat— and perhaps the other classes — over the nature of capitalism. The concept of ideology as false consciousness, even where it is accepted that Marx did not use the term, has tended to dominate interpretations of Marx's statements on ideology, although arguably this in fact involves a misunderstanding of Marx (see, for example Joseph McCarney's essay "Ideology and False Consciousness"). False consciousness is theoretically linked with the concepts of the dominant ideology and cultural hegemony. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_consciousness   (397 words)

Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Note that some of these (particularly the rose and orange revolutions) only changed one government with another, and did not modify the political or economic systems of their countries. A political revolution is the forcible replacement of one set of rulers with another (as happened in France and Russia), while a social revolution is the fundamental change in the social structure of a society, such as the Protestant Reformation or the Renaissance. English Revolution -- (1642-1653) -- Commenced as a civil war between Parliament and King, culminating in the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a republican Protectorate. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revolution   (1029 words)

Store consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Store consciousness (Sanskrit: ālayavijñāna; Tibetan: kun gzhi rnam shes; Chinese: 阿賴耶識 Japanese: araya-shiki) is the eighth and the most fundamental of the eight consciousnesses established in the doctrine of the Yogacara school of Buddhism. Store consciousness accumulates all potential energy for the mental and physical manifestation of one's existence, and supplies the substance to all existences. Alayavijnana - Storehouse Consciousness, Walpola Rahula, not dated; quotes the Pali Canon's use of alaya and compares the Mahayana asrayaparavrtti and bijaparavrtti with Nikaya Buddhism's alayasamugghata, the "uprooting of alaya, and khinabija, one whose "seeds of defilement are destroyed". www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alaya   (203 words)

Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to Artificial intelligence whose aim is to produce a rigorous and objective definition of consciousness, in a mathematical sense, and build a theory toward implementating it in a model or a cognitive architecture. Artificial consciousness is an interesting philosophical problem because, with increased understanding of genetics, neuroscience and information processing, it may soon be possible to create a conscious entity. Cotterill, Rodney (2003), 'Cyberchild: a Simulation Test-Bed for Consciousness Studies' in Machine Consciousness, ed. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simulated_consciousness   (3701 words)

Consciousness Explained - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dennett and his supporters, however, respond that the aforementioned "subjective aspect" as commonly used is non-existent, and that his "re-definition" is the only coherent description of consciousness. Consciousness Explained (published 1991) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which attempts to explain how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. The matter of consciousness is, of course, under constant and heated debate, and there is no firm agreement on the validity of Dennett's arguments. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consciousness_Explained   (351 words)

183 Manually selected Philosophy of Mind Resources - Center for Consciousness Studies at the Univ... - The denial of consciousness in non-human ani... - Research on the Global Nature of Consciousness www.cbel.com /philosophy_of_mind   (209 words)

Collective consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia These and bounds constitute the collective consciousness, which is embodied in a culture's formal and informal norms and values. The French social theorist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) used the term collective consciousness in his The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). These are expressed in a variety of ways, ranging from codified rules and laws (ie, speed limits on the highway), to more informal rules that exist only in the heads of the culture that shares the collective (ie, it's polite to cover your mouth when you sneeze). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective_consciousness   (219 words)

Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial Consciousness must not be as genuine as Strong AI, it must be as objective as the scientific method demands and capable of achieving known objectively observable abilities of consciousness, except subjective experience, which by Thomas Nagel cannot be objectively observed. Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to define that which would have to be synthesized were consciousness to be found in an engineered artefact. Artificial consciousness is an interesting philosophical problem because, with increased understanding of genetics, neuroscience and information processing, it may soon be possible to create a conscious entity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artificial_consciousness   (3381 words)

Class consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Class consciousness is a category of socialist and especially Marxist theory, referring to the self-awareness of a social class, its capacity to act in its own rational interests, or measuring the extent to which an individual is conscious of the historical tasks their class (or class allegiance) sets for them. One of the curious results of certain class societies (or societies that are generally perceived to be based on class distinctions) is that people belonging to different social classes have different views on the class system as a whole, thus different forms of class consciousness. From this observation one can argue that class consciousness in modern English society is quite blurred, a situation which exists in other modern societies as well. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Class_consciousness   (3381 words)

Social class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thompson analyses the English working class as a group of people with shared material conditions coming to a positive self-consciousness of their social position. Classes are seen to have their origin in the division of the social product into a necessary product and a surplus product. It is seen as the process of a "class in itself" moving in the direction of a "class for itself," a collective agent that changes history rather than simply being a victim of the historical process. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_class   (3381 words)

Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to Artificial intelligence whose aim is to produce a rigorous and objective definition of consciousness, in a mathematical sense, and build a theory toward implementating it in a model or a cognitive architecture. Artificial consciousness is an interesting philosophical problem because, with increased understanding of genetics, neuroscience and information processing, it may soon be possible to create a conscious entity. Cotterill, Rodney (2003), 'Cyberchild: a Simulation Test-Bed for Consciousness Studies' in Machine Consciousness, ed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Synthetic_consciousness   (3701 words)

Sound recording - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. They had opposed magnetic tape recording when it first became available to consumers, but the technical difficulty of juggling recording levels, overload distortion, and residual tape hiss was sufficiently high that magnetic tape piracy never became an unsurmountable commercial problem. The advent of this improved system gave recording engineers and musicians vastly greater flexibility for recording and overdubbing, and 4-track was the studio standard for most of the later 1960s. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sound_recording   (3701 words)

Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In most types of Buddhism, serenity meditation is followed by a philosophical "insight meditation" that focuses on the idea that the universe is consciousness only, one that is perhaps indistinguishable from Monism. Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Modern investigations into and discoveries about consciousness are based on psychological statistical studies and case studies of consciousness states and the deficits caused by lesions, stroke, injury, or surgery that disrupt the normal functioning of human senses and cognition. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consciousness   (6387 words)

Khoras - Fauna - Jungle - Hive Spider Hive spiders are true hive-mind creatures - that is, a single consciousness connected via telepathy and inhabiting many bodies. Hive spiders take advantage of their numbers, use clever tactics and employ strategy, distraction, traps, sneak attacks, ambushes and more. Hive spiders are fast, aggressive fighters and have been known to dodge arrows. www.khoras.net /Khoras/Faunflor/Fauna/Jungle/Hive%20Spider.htm   (6387 words)

Science And Consciousness Review Stuss, D.T., Picton, T.W., and Alexander, M.P. Consciousness, self-awareness and the frontal lobes. The term “consciousness” itself is already difficult to define (see SCR)—then add to this notions such as “meta-”, “reflective”, “core”, “extended”, “minimal”, or “recursive” consciousness, and the situation becomes rather desperate. Consciousness results not from a perception of what is out there but from experiencing the models of what is occurring in the environment. www.sci-con.org /articles/20040802.html   (4567 words)

Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Modern investigations into and discoveries about consciousness are based on psychological statistical studies and case studies of consciousness states and the deficits caused by lesions, stroke, injury, or surgery that disrupt the normal functioning of human senses and cognition. In common parlance, consciousness denotes being awake and responsive to one's environment; this contrasts with being asleep or being in a coma. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consciousness   (3585 words)

Extended consciousness -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Extended consciousness is said to arise in the (That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord) brain of animals with substantial capacity for (An electronic memory device) memory and (A rational motive for a belief or action) reason. Image spaces imply areas where (additional info and facts about sensory) sensory impressions of all types are processed, including the focused awareness of the (additional info and facts about core consciousness) core consciousness. In (additional info and facts about biological psychology) biological psychology, extended consciousness describes an (A living organism characterized by voluntary movement) animal's autobiographical self-perception. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ex/extended_consciousness.htm   (319 words)

Collective intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Collective intelligence is an amplification of the precepts of the Founding Fathers, as represented by Thomas Jefferson in his statement, "A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry." During the industrial era, schools and corporations took a turn toward separating elites from the people they expected to follow them. Collective intelligence, as characterized by Tom Atlee, Douglas Engelbart, Cliff Joslyn, Francis Heylighen, Ron Dembo, and other theorists, is a working form of intelligence which overcomes "groupthink" and individual cognitive bias in order to allow a collective to cooperate on one process—while maintaining reliable intellectual performance. While group and artificial intelligence have something to offer, collective intelligence is at its roots a human enterprise, in which mind-sets, a willingness to share, and an openness to the value of distributed intelligence for the common good, are paramount. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Collective_intelligence   (1403 words)

Georg Lukacs History & Class Consciousness (1920) Thus it is highly characteristic of both Anarchism and the ‘class consciousness of the peasantry that a number of counter-revolutionary rebellions and uprisings of the middle and upper strata of the peasantry in Russia should have found the anarchist view of society to be a satisfying ideology. By relating consciousness to the whole of society it becomes possible to infer the thoughts and feelings which men would have in a particular situation if they were able to assess both it and the interests arising from it in their impact on immediate action and on the whole structure of society. And as class consciousness was defined in terms of the problems of imputing class interests the failure of their class consciousness to develop in the immediately given historical reality becomes comprehensible philosophically. www.sozialistische-klassiker.org /lukacs/lukacse02.html   (1403 words)

Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Consciousness is just a word attributed to things that appear to make their own choices and perhaps things that are too complex for our mind to comprehend. Consciousness Explained may be useful for prediction: It involves the evaluation and selection of the most appropriate "draft" to fit the current environment. Digital sentience assumes that the artificial consciousness is exhibited by a computer (or a system with a computer as its "brain"): The possibility of a man-made yet biological (e.g.) system being conscious demonstrates that artificial consciousness is not equivalent to digital sentience. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artificial_consciousness   (1403 words)

Dual Dual (category theory) In mathematics, the dual of a category C is the category formed by reversing all the morphisms of... Dual (electronics) In circuits that have mathematical descriptions that are identical except that voltages in one corres... Dual Contracts (New York Subway) The Dual Contracts of 1913 were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation an... www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/dual.html   (1403 words)

Mind-Body Paper One's conscious self is the human organism that one is, considered insofar as it is both the agent and object of consciousness (mental brain processes). Consciousness is a necessary aspect of brain processes at a sufficiently high level of complexity and/or intensity. The former, also better known as the Mind-Body Problem, is the issue on which this paper focuses: the problem of the nature of the relationship between man's consciousness and his body. members.aol.com /REBissell/indexmm3.html   (1403 words)

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