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... Another line of evidence supporting our hypothesis comes from the well-known covariance of conscious experience and volitional control. Where volitional action is not needed, conscious experience has no purpose and ... See full document

... of consciousness and there are many instances where these differing assumptions about ontology have intruded into how phenomenal consciousness has been ...phenomenal consciousness to be nothing more ... See full document

... seen what I saw … Then you would know what a liar he was!” (TSS 137) While we are struggling to analyze and substantiate the new information about the Lyles, Port apprises Kit of Mohammed’s discovery, and ... See full document

... Within this context, this study refers to Samavi, Thomas, and Thodoros [50] who concluded that a priori the ability to manage confidentiality should be based on data encryption, which brings back the problem of ... See full document

... French film critic Regis Bergeron once said: “What most impresses the West about Chinese cinema is its contemporary realism.” 1 We can also recognize this sense of realism in the films of China’s Sixth Generation ... See full document

... to what people commonly ...in Consciousness Explained, he puts this in rather unequivocal ...for what he is seeking to deny (see discussion on page 45), Dennett writes (366): “There seems to be ... See full document

... affair and project his being towards the future. Every self- conscious human being always lives in the present. The past is imperceptibly melting into the present for making way for the agent’s becoming what he is ... See full document

... symbolises what the Gita designates as nishkama karma - spontaneously reaching out to people to help them which has the highest moral worth for it does not involve even duty ...– consciousness or ego ...any ... See full document

... But what is interesting is why Brand would turn his back on capitalizing further on the trappings of the good life and devote his time, money and ener- gy on acting against the very system that brought him ... See full document

... In terms of the present time frame, certain future potentialities are actualized based on matter-energy interactions. For example, if in fifteen minutes you are reading and further along in the paper, then that ... See full document

... It is unclear what positive conclusion should be drawn from Arico’s results, however. The primary reason is that the lack of a significant difference between these sentences might be taken to reflect that lay ... See full document

... present a structured signal: the colour defines the shape of the object and it also indicates a pattern of similarity across its surface, which may be compared with that observed on other objects. What the ... See full document

... Koriat's Accessibility Model (Koriat, 1993, 1995) is also an inference-based model. However, according to Koriat, the FOK does not precede retrieval, but is based on the products of retrieval. The products of retrieval ... See full document

... bourgeois consciousness, and thus the rightful province of the novel’ ...But what does Chang mean by cyber-consciousness and why does it remain a fleeting reference, unresolved? In the absence of a ... See full document

... What force causes DNA to give proper instructions for controlling the normal ‘cellular function’ through the formation of specific sequence which, in turn, is responsible for the transportation of newly-formed ... See full document

... of what is not the being-object, the in- itself ” ()—but does this kind of scientific reconceptualization already reach into the realm of subjectivity? Probably ... See full document

... 3 This correlation between attention and consciousness was also discussed in a paper of Dehaene et al. (2006). They suggested that when participants actively attended a stimuli (top- down attention) various ... See full document

... property. What I wish to contend, is that to grasp a property might then plausibly be to know, all the (or some of the, or the typical) causal potentialities it ...to consciousness. If for example, P is the ... See full document

... Although the growing interests in brand love, little agreement exists as to what brand love actually is (Albert, Merunka, & Valette-Florence, 2008). For example, one of the main discussions is whether brand ... See full document

... consequences. What sort of freedom or liberation is really being pursued by our present policies and interpretations of applicable law? Both liberation theology and humanity consciousness insist upon a ... See full document