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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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Consciousness research could also affect how the legal system understands responsibility.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

Seen as a martyr in the struggle against white-minority rule, the Black Consciousness Movement founder died from a brain injury aged 30 almost a month after being arrested at a roadblock.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

Andrews was a coauthor of the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, a declaration signed last April by a long list of animal consciousness, philosophy, neuroscience and cognitive science luminaries at New York University.

From Salon • May 13, 2025

He called the movement the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or ISKCON.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

“Elementary Class Consciousness, did you say? Let’s have it repeated a little louder by the trumpet.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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