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    In recent days, certainly, the term environmental consciousness is one of the most utilized in various degrees in our society. It being in a conference of international leaders or a local neighborhood meeting, the matter of being environmentally and ecologically conscient became a mandatory measure. In a general sense, being conscious towards environmental issues is described as the ability to comprehend the environment one habits in, the actions and relationships among it, and the impacts the caused

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    Tiffany, Good post on defining environmental consciousness, you mentioned scientist and scholars alike understands and in need of people who put more thought into how products are manufactured. You gave good examples listed in your paper. You mentioned it is about having awareness of what an individual is putting in the environment. I found that “prior research indicates that people vary in levels of environmental consciousness depending on their sociodemographic characteristics

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    Objectivity in Autophenonmenology and Heterophenomenology In the journal “How to Study Human Consciousness Empirically,” Daniel Dennett claims that “people are often just wrong about what they are doing and how they are doing it.” Rather than having an objective and complete understanding of our own intentions and processes, we tend to use assumptions as knowledge, alter facts to align with our beliefs, and theorize about causes and effects. As a result, studies of traditional phenomenology (referred

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    result of the decrease in deep relationships, in Gergen’s notion, people receive less sense of identification. Moreover, the multi-voices raised today and the suspicions over speakers’ motivations confuse people from faith to distrust. Other than environmental factors, Gergen addresses the erosion of the essential self directly undermine the intelligibility of the tradition self. People can’t make independent and rational decision because of the conflicting stands they held in the same time and if

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    discussing a philosophical question could shed some light into our greatest existential dilemmas. German philosopher Martin Heidegger himself said, “we ourselves are entities to be analyzed,” and that seems ever so fitting for the investigation into consciousness. Although we have first person access to our conscious brain, the advancement of technology has allowed previously inaccessible understanding of what goes on inside our heads. But much of our brain and spinal cord, the scientifically agreed upon

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    the word consciousness is used regarding human beings, the word itself usually implies that those individuals are conscious of being conscious. Many individuals assume that the mind, the brain, and the body react as one. But the idea of the mind is not related to the concept of the brain or the body. These differences allow philosophers to determine a people’s consciousness in the world around them. Individuals derive the concept of consciousness from their experience because consciousness itself

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    Consciousness in Animals The conscious mind is a complex thing that has many questions that science is yet to answer. The conscious is composed by awareness and responsiveness in one’s mind, it is expressed by one’s emotions, thoughts, and actions. Consciousness to me is defined by the ability to be aware and responsive. Awareness is an element that distinguishes the conscious from the unconscious. To be aware is to be knowledgeable of your surroundings and to know what is happening in the world

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    reflection of ourselves. We are atoms, and minerals, the very chemistry and physiology of crystals, carbon, gold and other natural phenomena. Nothing that exists in our Universe is not also within ourselves. With greater awareness and expansion of consciousness we can see and know many truths and illusions that exists through myth and culture. And thus we have the freedom to choose

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    The Robert Berezin M.D. author of the article “Reflections On Dreaming and Consciousness” discusses what we are dreaming when we are sleeping and how they operate when we are sleeping. In the article, he claims that during sleep our muscle goes to rest and all the waste products of muscle activity eliminated. The author supports most dreams are emotional conflicts and in my dreams are emotional conflicts, when I dream about the pain, the dreams help me to settle down my emotion because I took an

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    Consciousness is understood in a variety of ways. In one belief, a person is conscious when awake, but unconscious when sleeping or comatose. Yet people also do things requiring perception and thought unconsciously even when they are awake. A person can be conscious of their physical surroundings, pain and even a wish or fantasy. In short a creature is conscious if it is aware of itself and that it is a physical and emotional being. Consciousness is a psychological condition defined by the English

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