consciousness
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It also means erasing the construct of Hal’s consciousness that has guided John since his mentor died.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
John shares a moment with the Halogram, the backup version of 2006 Hal’s consciousness, after working with him and the mystery is solved, but can you address that lack of proper closure for them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He characterized AI capabilities as statistical computations and warned that assigning consciousness to AI erodes human dignity.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
When Machchhar’s pulse began to drop and he started to lose consciousness, Musaev called for the reserve pilots—who had by then taken charge of the plane—to land as soon as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
What happened next, I only knew in dim, scattered flares of consciousness.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Plus, you have all of the 23 other consciousnesses that were on the severed floor that Dichen so beautifully lived out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
According to her, the woman portrayed as a trickster "sums up our modern fragmented, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousnesses".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022
In autofiction, bewilderment and shapelessness tend to be part of the point, as the form mimics the myopia of lived experience and the confines of our solitary consciousnesses.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
In the other central conceit of “Pure Colour,” Mira and her father are paired as dual consciousnesses in a leaf, which functions as an extended metaphor for the interconnected entrapment of grief.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022
These national and racial collective consciousnesses of to-day are things as vague, as fluctuating as mists or clouds, they melt, dissolve into one another, they coalesce, they split.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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