awareness

In the "Are You Conscious" thread FedUpWithFaith gave, what I think, is a pretty good description for the operational criteria of volition: My personal opinion is that consciousness is required for volition. Conscious thought involves subjective valuation which necessarily entails the kind of...

To re-iterate from another thread: I have no answer to this question. Whatever we mean by 'awareness' it seems that it must include attention. But is attention alone necessary or does awareness include other aspects? I would like to avoid dualism from the outset, so we will need to be...

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Hi Everyone, (this is my first post! hurray!) A couple of nights ago i watched a documentry about anaesthetic awareness in which people were telling of experiences of being awake under a general anaesthetic and feeling all the pain and trauma of all kinds of surgical procedures. The...

Isn't it amazing that anything exists at all, let alone that it's capable of being aware of itself? The probabilities must have been astounding that anything should just up and appear out of nowhere (in other words from absolute nothingness), and then, for the whole thing to take form and...

Just thought you would all like to know (more info here) . I am wondering about establishing Rational Week, Sensible Week, or something like it.

Guess what I found out this morning over my cornflakes. It is Homeopathy awareness week in Ireland!!!! That means unfounded claims, uncritical articles and blatant propaganda in the national press. In the weekly health supplement to the Irish Times a good splash of articles, with the major one...

Apparently, this week it's Homeopathy Awareness Week here in Britain. I'm certainly going to be playing my part - what are you doing to increase the public's knowledge of homeopathy? I might even mix up some homeopathic dilutions of my own - I won't get through so many soft drinks that way. (One...

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