consciousness
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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
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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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