consciousness
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What elevates Mellencamp’s song is the dual consciousness in his raspy vocal: the nagging belief in a dream that, like everything else, “just kind of came and went.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Society opened up and everyone started speaking out in public about Taiwanese consciousness, rallying behind a Taiwanese identity—and boom, it was established,” Lin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Instead, the findings suggest that very different experiences may sometimes engage overlapping brain processes associated with altered states of consciousness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
The campaign was part of the reason the case "never properly left the public consciousness", according to Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
My consciousness begins to spread through my surroundings once more … and I cringe.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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“Alien: Earth” follows a group of children whose consciousnesses are transferred into synthetic adult bodies.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 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
In this inventively loopy sci-fi thriller, employees at that shadowy firm undergo a brain procedure that splits their work and home selves into two separate consciousnesses.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
According to her, the woman portrayed as a trickster "sums up our modern fragmented, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousnesses".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022
The first seat of our primal consciousnesses the solar plexus, the great nerve-center situated behind the stomach.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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