consciousness

Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these drugs create such a profound loss of consciousness. In a new study that tracked brain activity in human volunteers over a...

Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy...

I was watching Ghost in the Shell again today—for the umpteenth time—and got to thinking: If the technology existed in the future and I had the opportunity to do so, I'd totally abandon this meat sack that I exist in and upload my consciousness to the 'Net. More »

...of time passing? Yes, consciousness comes in levels.

i know that may sound weird, but one day the thought came to me that sound is the vehicle which consciousness uses to travel. for example, when you are listening to music, it can bring back memories of places or people, and/or feelings. also, the constant beating of a drum is said to bring...

This article talks about how all religions, no matter how different, are heading toward the same destination via different paths. As humans, we are moving toward a more divine state together. "The highest state of intellectual development and emotional maturity is sometimes termed the...

...consciousness? Will we ever learn the answer to this question? wot do you think? Han/Marisa, I will try to do me best the next time ok

As we all know light takes time to travel through space; for example it takes around 8 minutes for light to reach us from the Sun. In other words, we are looking into the past right? So considering that time exists individually for each and one of us (regarding Einstein's theory and how...

As we all know light takes time to travel through space; for example it takes around 8 minutes for light to reach us from the Sun. In other words, we are looking into the past right? So considering that time exists individually for each and one of us (regarding Einstein's theory and how...

As we all know light takes time to travel through space; for example it takes around 8 minutes for light to reach us from the Sun. In other words, we are looking into the past right? So considering that time exists individually for each and one of us (regarding Einstein's theory and how...

...the only way, to life and truth? This question has arisen time and time again in me... so ... I ask you, who understand this ... Why? He is not given the glory, if so many want to have his kind of Being... sincerely asking, so please be sincere... in your responses... all are welcomed to...

I understand that using stream of consciousness is a convention of modernist literature, a break away from the tradition, used to reveal interior characterization. But how does the use of this technique relate to Virginia's own life? (ie. how does it reflect her life and context?)

every time, everywhere, What..? would happen if he decided to kill your grandfather? Would you disappear from existence? Could God do this? This is assuming that you believe in a "personal god" as christians do.

how would you , say, personally handle it Generally speaking

in more detail my question is that, Is religion the cultivated belief system of the majority of people in the world , created over time with a supported stories and accounts of bad things happening of people talking of what things happened to them and how that made them feel which in result...