“But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.” FactsDealsConsciousnessDisease Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.” IfsFirstsMayProblemChallengesDealsConsciousnessKnownEventsEvolutionIntellectualConceptsComplexesAwakeningWeatherUnifiedProminenceConfluenceNew Family Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.” IfsThinkingIdeasRealBigsMightLawSocialTermDealsConsciousnessShapesFairsOrganizationDepthInstanceStableDiscourseBig DealAcademiaChunksSocial Organization Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have suggested that there are features of the first-person perspective that naturalism just cannot accommodate, whether it be qualitative character, or consciousness, or simply the ability we have to think of ourselves in a distinctively first-person manner.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsCharacterAbilityDealsNumbersConsciousnessPerspectivePhilosopherFeaturesFirst PersonAccommodateNaturalismQualitative Author:Hilary Kornblith
“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.” MotivationalLiteratureSleepDealsConsciousnessFeministLesbianism Author:Audre Lorde
“I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.” WayHumansMeanBigsDealsConsciousnessModernAvailableConsumersBig DealSobrietyOverratedHuman Consciousness Book:Wonder Boys Source: Wonder Boys