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From computers and scanners to mobile devices, an increasing number of humans spend much of their conscious lives interacting with the world through electronics, the only barrier between brain and machine being the senses — sight, sound, and touch — through which humans and devices interface.
After all, the financial system did not collapse altogether, and the Obama administration made a conscious decision to revive banks with hidden subsidies rather than to recapitalize them on a compulsory basis.
Cultural and religious beliefs also contributed to this scientific division by holding that conscious experience must somehow arise and exist independently of the human body.
We are, as the French writer Jean Bruller-Vercors put it, animaux dénaturés , or "denatured animals," living in nature but simultaneously able to observe, investigate, and question it from a distance, conscious of our separateness.
From there, scientists believed, the signals went on to the part of the brain's cortex that managed body awareness, and somehow the cortex turned them into conscious experience.
The conscious experience of pain involves emotion and cognition as well as sensation.
What is needed is a conscious, deliberate return of US foreign policy to multilateralism.
While the Orange Revolution made ordinary Ukrainians more conscious of their rights than ever before, this alone cannot guarantee that they are certain to see those rights vindicated in the coming weeks.
Add to that conscious and unconscious biases and considerable temptation for political manipulation, and the risks become only more profound.
Since then, the US has pursued a conscious policy of aiding China’s rise.
Given how few foods contain vitamin D naturally, reaching these levels may require conscious effort.
Another reason why female leaders might be more likely to attract coups is the belief, conscious or unconscious, that a woman in charge must have obtained her post through family or marital connections.
Yet there is an undeniable whiff of nostalgia in the current rapprochement between two powers that are both conscious of their relative decline in the world.
On the contrary: Only an entity conscious of its own identity can be a good and equal partner for cooperation with others.
With Big Tech’s secret algorithms determining how we perceive the world, it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to make conscious decisions – what philosophers perceive as the basic dimension of free will.
Yet, while I welcome this debate and fully recognize the need for long-term measures, I am acutely conscious of time.
Internal inertia, incomplete information, risk aversion, and conscious and unconscious biases combine to impede recognition of the urgency and importance of adaptation.
Order never just emerges; it is the result of conscious efforts by the most powerful entities in the world.
These conflicts have taught Africa that, in order to contain the centrifugal pressures that encourage fragmentation within our relatively new states, a conscious effort must be made to nurture and entrench national unity, which must include democratic practices.
Deeply rooted in tradition, religion, and culture, these principles were not necessarily rational in the sense of representing conscious choices among available alternatives.
It is worth recalling that California is the world’s sixth largest economy, a fact that makes it a plausible interlocutor for environmentally conscious countries.
That framework has to be based on global civics, a system of conscious responsibilities that we are ready to take on – and corresponding rights that we are ready to claim – after due deliberation.
Silvio Berlusconi’s government, together with a fiscally conscious opposition, managed to secure – in only a few days – parliamentary approval of a package of measures worth more than €50 billion, in order to restore market confidence in the soundness of Italy’s economic fundamentals.
The conscious expression of this dream is an obsessive response to the certainty of biological death: the belief that a big enough win in the game of science will beat death itself by conferring a form of immortality on the winner.
Recent laboratory research shows that our conscious thoughts devise, ex post, compelling rationales for many decisions that our brains tend to make unconsciously.
If machines can and do become conscious, will we take their feelings into account?
The development of a conscious robot that (who?) was not widely perceived as a member of our moral community could therefore lead to mistreatment on a large scale.
The hard question, of course, is how we could tell that a robot really was conscious, and not just designed to mimic consciousness.
If so, we would have no reason to believe that the robot was conscious.
But if the robot was designed to have human-like capacities that might incidentally give rise to consciousness, we would have a good reason to think that it really was conscious.
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