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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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He didn't believe she had regained consciousness at any point, adding that he has been receiving updates through her medical power of attorney rather than consulting directly with doctors.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The tapestry holds a particular position in British public consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A global shift toward nonalcoholic drinks — driven by greater health consciousness from California to Cologne and beyond — has reached even the world’s biggest celebration of beer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

But as he did so he could sense the wrongness, the dual consciousness of one of the people within.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

“Alien: Earth” follows a group of children whose consciousnesses are transferred into synthetic adult bodies.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

Plus, you have all of the 23 other consciousnesses that were on the severed floor that Dichen so beautifully lived out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

In the other central conceit of “Pure Colour,” Mira and her father are paired as dual consciousnesses in a leaf, which functions as an extended metaphor for the interconnected entrapment of grief.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

Rather than bursting into song or breaking into dance at opportune moments, the characters stream their tormented consciousnesses through lyrics that are never as simple as they sound.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021

From this doctrine Spencer took refuge in the strange notion that we possess two consciousnesses, the consciousness of ideas within us and the consciousness of motions without us.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder




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