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    Consciousness is an individual's awareness of the environment around them, their thoughts, feelings, memories and sensations. In order to be conscious, one must be awake and aware of the life around them. Many studies and articles have proved that there are many ways to change the way one thinks when not fully conscious. Someone in an altered state of mind will not be in full consciousness of themselves or surroundings. The brain state loses the sense of identity with one's body or normal sense perceptions

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    In the movie Ex Machina, the theme of consciousness is prominent. The movie is centered around an artificial intelligence named that ends up manipulating her way out of a research facility. In this essay I will argue that Eva was conscious. In the film, the Turing test is used to determine whether or not Eva could pass as not being a machine. According to Turing and his argument from various disabilities, “Machines can do somethings but not others.” Some examples of things machines can not do that

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    Noticing The role of consciousness in learning has been a heavily debated topic. Many researchers have been hesitant to even use the term “consciousness” when discussing the topic due to its vague nature and its difficulty to operationalize. Schmidt (1992) was one of the first researchers to explore in depth the true relationship of consciousness to second language learning. He operationalized the construct of consciousness under the umbrella term awareness. Awareness encapsulated attention and noticing

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    immediate gratification, independently of the constraints of external reality, but whose re-entry or initial entry into consciousness is prevented by the defensive operations of the ego. Where our conscious mind is relatively limited, our nonconscious mind is capable of processing large amounts of information, which is hidden and too complex to be identified by our consciousness (Kihlstrom, 1987). According to the info-processing model, our nonconsciousness is smarter, but not because of any pre-existing

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    1. Briefly describe shifts in states of consciousness. The states of consciousness are about the experience and about feeling the world. It is about your own deep feeling and therefore we need to bring them in its true light that is not rational but sensitive. Religion, in whatever form they may be is a reflection of a certain level of the consciousness. When a person's awareness is changing and expanding, also individual’s vision of the religion can change. 2. Briefly discuss how human capacity

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    The closest way to explain consciousness is the subjective quality of experience. Creative points of perception are perceptions that turn new and imaginative ideas into reality by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Consciousness creativity is fluid thoughtlessness which can take on any form. The essay will explain consciousness, prove its existence and show a path to awakening

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    Consciousness is a complex theory of thought and/or state. Throughout the semester I altered my consciousness, or awareness of consciousness, by paying attention and changing certain “default” consciousness aspects. The semester projects and recordings allowed me to focus on different facets of my own consciousness day-to-day and throughout each day. By having different projects through the semester, I was able to restart my awareness of my “normal” consciousness and bring it to the forefront of

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    So does consciousness exist outside the brain? Consciousness is defined as the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. Basically being aware enough to understand everything going on around you. Some would argue that consciousness is restricted to the brain and body only. If that were true then the brain would be able to operate outside the body but in reality cannot. Consciousness however, is utilized beyond the brain without any accusations

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    Metaphysical issues of consciousness Before defining “Metaphysical issues of consciousness”, we need to define terms 'metaphysics' and 'consciousness' separately. Also we need to define physical and non-physical object, relation of brain with consciousness etc. We need a deep knowledge and all the features of consciousness to relate the terms metaphysics and consciousness. Metaphysics The word metaphysics derive from the Greek word (meta-

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    The topic of near-death experience has brought forth a debate on how the brain is connected to the consciousness. Two hypotheses, the materialist view and the dualist view, have been suggested. One claims that the brain creates the consciousness and the other that the brain interprets the consciousness. In the following paragraphs, I plan to address the hypothesis put forth by authors Greyson and Calvi-Parsetti, the hypothesis I feel best follows both the SEARCH criteria and the criteria of adequacy

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