All 50 Uses of

conscious

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Sophie's World

According to Democritus, there is no conscious "design" in the movement of atoms.†
Chpt 5

They believe, like Democritus, that "soul" is connected with brain, and that we cannot have any form of consciousness once the brain disintegrates.†
Chpt 5

Aristotle pointed out that nothing exists in consciousness that has not first been experienced by the senses.†
Chpt 11

Aristotle held that all our thoughts and ideas have come into our consciousness through what we have heard and seen.†
Chpt 11

They have suddenly experienced something they have called "cosmic consciousness" or an "oceanic feeling."†
Chpt 12

They became intensely conscious of their epoch, which is what led them to introduce the term 'Middle Ages' to cover the centuries between antiquity and their own time.†
Chpt 16

Even human consciousness—or the soul—derives from the movement of tiny particles in the brain.†
Chpt 17

So there must be some mysterious connection between body and consciousness.†
Chpt 18

The mind is purely conscious, it takes up no room in space and can therefore not be subdivided into smaller parts.†
Chpt 18

Matter, however, is purely extension, it takes up room in space and can therefore always be subdivided into smaller and smaller parts— but it has no consciousness.†
Chpt 18

He thought all our ideas have a cause beyond our consciousness, but that this cause is not of a material nature.†
Chpt 22

For God is 'intimately present in our consciousness, causing to exist for us the profusion of ideas and perceptions that we are constantly subject to.'†
Chpt 22

Aristotle pointed out that nothing exists in consciousness that has not first been experienced by the senses.†
Chpt 22

There had been all kinds of hints that something special was going to happen as soon as they got to that philosopher—who had denied the existence of a material world outside human consciousness.†
Chpt 23

That's called existential angst, or dread, and is as a rule only a stage on the way to new consciousness.†
Chpt 23

You can moreover be confident that the law of cause and effect will apply, simply because you carry it with you as part of your consciousness.†
Chpt 24

It was said that Romanticism implied a renaissance of the old cosmic consciousness.†
Chpt 25

The philosopher Fichte said that nature stems from a higher, unconscious imagination.†
Chpt 25

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

And even the creative act was not always completely conscious.†
Chpt 25

According to Hegel, history is the story of the 'world spirit' gradually coming to consciousness of itself.†
Chpt 26

Although the world has always existed, human culture and human development have made the world spirit increasingly conscious of its intrinsic value.†
Chpt 26

By that he means that it becomes conscious of itself in three stages.†
Chpt 26

The world spirit first becomes conscious of itself in the individual.†
Chpt 26

It reaches a higher consciousness in the family, civil society, and the state.†
Chpt 26

But in the process nature also interacts with man and transforms his consciousness.†
Chpt 28

How we work affects our consciousness, but our consciousness also affects the way we work.†
Chpt 28

How we work affects our consciousness, but our consciousness also affects the way we work.†
Chpt 28

You could say it is an interactive relationship between hand and consciousness.†
Chpt 28

Darwin showed that mankind was the result of a slow biological evolution, and Freud's studies of the unconscious revealed that people's actions were often the result of 'animal' urges or instincts.†
Chpt 29

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

I'm going to tell you about Freud and his theory of the unconscious.†
Chpt 30

But his theory of the unconscious is necessary to an understanding of what a human being is.†
Chpt 30

By bringing a 'traumatic experience' into the conscious mind—and holding it up to the patient, so to speak—he or she can help the patient 'be done with it,' and get well again.†
Chpt 30

In other words, she buried it deep in her unconscious.†
Chpt 30

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

After many years of experience in treating patients, Freud concluded that the conscious constitutes only a small part of the human mind.†
Chpt 30

The conscious is like the tip of the iceberg above sea level.†
Chpt 30

Below sea level—or below the threshold of the conscious—is the 'subconscious,' or the unconscious.†
Chpt 30

Below sea level—or below the threshold of the conscious—is the 'subconscious,' or the unconscious.†
Chpt 30

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

So the unconscious is everything that's inside us that we have forgotten and don't remember?†
Chpt 30

We don't have all our experiences consciously present all the time.†
Chpt 30

He reserved the term 'unconscious' for things we have repressed.†
Chpt 30

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

If we have desires and urges that are not tolerable to the conscious, the superego shoves them downstairs.†
Chpt 30

But it can be such a tremendous strain for some people to keep the unpleasant or forbidden thoughts away from consciousness that it leads to mental illness.†
Chpt 30

Whatever is repressed in this way will try of its own accord to reenter consciousness.†
Chpt 30

For some people it takes a great effort to keep such impulses under the critical eye of the conscious.†
Chpt 30

Now, if you transfer both locations to the psyche, calling this consciousness, and the outside the unconscious, you have a tolerably good illustration of the process of repression.'†
Chpt 30

Now, if you transfer both locations to the psyche, calling this consciousness, and the outside the unconscious, you have a tolerably good illustration of the process of repression.'†
Chpt 30

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.

We live under the constant pressure of repressed thoughts that are trying to fight their way up from the unconscious.†
Chpt 30

Unconscious reactions thus prompt our feelings and actions.†
Chpt 30

Freud claimed that our everyday life was filled with unconscious mechanisms like these.†
Chpt 30

Even if you do, you won't be able to escape from your unconscious impulses.†
Chpt 30

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Definitions:

(1) (conscious as in: conscious after the operation)
awake (not asleep or in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything)
(2) (conscious as in: a conscious effort to lose weight)
intentional (done on purpose) -- perhaps with significant effort
(3) (conscious as in: environmentally conscious)
aware or concerned about something
(4) (conscious as in: the conscious mind)
mental activity of which one is self-aware
(5) (conscious as in: conscious life on other planets)
capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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