noun
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The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.
adjective
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Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
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The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
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Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
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Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
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Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
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I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
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Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
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Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
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conscious guilt
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Self-conscious.
Examples of conscious in a Sentence
I wasn't even conscious of what was happening.
I wish I wasn't so conscious of every little nuance.
There are conscious thoughts that you're aware of and subconscious ones that you're not.
The words themselves fascinated me; but I took no conscious account of what I read.
The affections die away - die of their own conscious feebleness and uselessness.
The patient seems to be conscious.
Not daring to look round and without looking round, he was ecstatically conscious of his approach.
Pure will kept her conscious as she struggled to keep it from shredding her.
Moreover, I am not conscious of my whole personal life at all.
This process constantly extends the sphere of economy in which not blind market laws but conscious decisions and even large-scale co-operation prevail.
It had meaning only as part of a whole of which he was always conscious.
This picture sees the brain in terms of conscious plus subconscious.
He suddenly felt sorry for her and was vaguely conscious that he might be the cause of the sadness her face expressed.
To regard himself as a conscious automaton he can never be persuaded.
The execution of the surplus of the general reform of the church in its head and members was left in the hands of the future pope, who had to proceed conjointly with the council, or rather with a commission appointed by the nations - in other words, once the new pope was elected, the fathers, conscious of their impotence, were disinclined to postpone their dispersion until the laborious achievement of the reform.
Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.
All thinking men were increasingly conscious that no progress was possible until Croat and Serb presented an united front against German-Magyar predominance.
Again, this is probably owing to your relaxed mind suffering less from the intrusive thoughts of a fully conscious mind.
On the other hand, nearly all systems of philosophy have discussed the underlying problems. Such questions as the origin of the cosmos as a whole, the production of organic beings and of conscious minds, and the meaning of the observable grades of creation, have from the dawn of speculation occupied men's minds; and the answers to these questions often imply a vague recognition of the idea of a gradual evolution of things.
The robot is a functional isomorph but is not conscious.
Apart altogether from the facts that this investigation is still in its infancy and that the conditions of experiment are insufficiently understood, its ultimate success is rendered highly problematical by the essential fact that real scientific results can be achieved only by data recorded in connexion with a perfectly nortnal subject; a conscious or interested subject introduces variable factors which are probably incalculable.
Just because my conscious mind doesn't remember doesn't mean my subconscious didn't dredge it up with the steak and onions we had for dinner.
You remain conscious all the time, although you may be a little drowsy, and any treatment given causes you no discomfort.
Such a scheme builds conscious subjectivity into the universe in a more integral way than Cartesian dualism seems to do.
Basically, any conscious effort to exercise your brain can potentially create new brain cell connections.
Billingham states that " there is no conscious intention of making some direct political statement about zoos.
So the boundary of the ego (which is centered on the conscious mind) seems to be confused and fuzzy.
With the exception of adult patients receiving nitrous oxide / oxygen inhalation sedation, an escort is mandatory for conscious sedation.
To ride a vehicle implies achieving a oneness with it, operating the controls by reflex rather than through conscious thought.
The practice offers fixed orthodontics and conscious IV sedation in addition to the normal range of primary care treatments.
It feels more real, it feels as tho you were conscious in the dream.
But cool generals should not repine at bad success when they are conscious they have not been wanting in effort noir assiduity.
We promote where possible the use of conscious sedation.
He's conscious of thwarted passion and inappropriate response, yet remains oddly distant from his own self-absorption.
I submit that a discourse may be willfully ' distorted ' for perfectly sincere, conscious and rational reasons.
No longer do fashion conscious skiers have to worry about coming down the mountain looking like giant snowballs.
For the first time I became conscious of the vast solitudes which lie in the interior of Scotland's most northerly counties.
With hypnosis we relax, focus and close down the conscious mind allowing the subconscious to open.
When, conscious of his helplessness, he combined his pleading with earnest supplication did the miracle of a spiritual resurrection happen.
Ben began to construct a proposed taxonomy of the methods being used for energy conscious building design.
Since we tie judgment and rationality to conscious thought, it looks as if we don't make conscious rational judgements at all.
God can be personal and doubtless is (though he has no Non-ego to define himself against) through contrast of passing conscious states with the abiding Ego.
Consumption had been making its insidious inroads upon Spinoza for many years, and early in 1677 he must have been conscious that he was seriously ill.
He does not, however, seem to have reciprocated the courtesy of his French hosts, but gave offence by the brusqueness of his manner, though his supercilious bearing, according to his biographer, Dr Paris, was to be ascribed less to any conscious superiority than to an "ungraceful timidity which he could never conquer."
The demonstrable rational necessity, instead of being innate, or conscious from our birth, may lie latent or subconscious in the individual mind; but for all that, when we gradually become more awake intellectually, such truths are seen to " carry their own evidence along with them."
This quivering of his left leg was a thing Napoleon was conscious of.
Over 95% of children are treated using conscious sedation techniques.
For it he proposed to substitute the genetic method, whereby human conscious experience might be exhibited as growing or developing from its essential basis in connexion with external conditions.
In connexion with this Biran treats most of the obscure problems which arise in dealing with conscious experience, such as the mode by which the organism is cognized, the mode by which the organism is distinguished from extra-organic things, and the nature of those general ideas by which the relations of things are known to us - cause, power, force, &c.
There are in reality two species of substances, or entirely distinct things, those which are impenetrably resisting, and those which are conscious substances; and it is impossible to reduce bodies and souls to one another, because resistance is incompatible with the attributes of spirit, and consciousness inexplicable by the attributes of body.