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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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What makes the story sing is the author’s ability to evoke the consciousness of an intelligent person in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The researchers believe the difference between consciousness and awareness offers an important insight into how people understand artificial intelligence.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

She was 59 when she collapsed during a Christmas holiday in Spain, lost consciousness, stopped breathing and had no pulse or heartbeat after suffering a cardiac arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Perhaps, if you want to be really cynical about it, you could boil down all of human nature and biology and the emergence of consciousness into “a lot of math” as well.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Kirsh is a Prodigy scientist working beside Hybrids, a proprietary invention that involves downloading human consciousnesses into synthetic bodies.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025

Their brains have been surgically altered, dividing their work life and home life into separate consciousnesses which are described by the company as “innies” and “outies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

According to her, the woman portrayed as a trickster "sums up our modern fragmented, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousnesses".

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022

In autofiction, bewilderment and shapelessness tend to be part of the point, as the form mimics the myopia of lived experience and the confines of our solitary consciousnesses.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2022

Thus, from the fact that two brains, like that of the ape and that of the man, are very much alike, we cannot conclude that the corresponding consciousnesses are comparable or commensurable.

From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell


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