conscious
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First is the difficulty of fully reducing conscious experience to physical brain mechanisms.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
The point: Dollar General appears ready to generate sales and earnings that satisfy or surpass expectations, even if consumer spending were to slow under the premise that shoppers would become more bargain conscious.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
“For better or for worse, ‘The Complex’ is my truest expression of myself as an artist yet because I wasn’t conscious of influences,” Mahajan says on a Zoom call from his home in Providence, R.I.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
But now that I’m pushing 50, I’m more conscious of the need to prioritize.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Studies have shown that racial schemas operate not only as part of conscious, rational deliberations, but also automatically—without conscious awareness or intent.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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