consciousness

Kirk’s killing seems to have shocked the consciousness of conservatives in a way few other acts of gun violence have done.

Brown’s new novel, “The Secret of Secrets,” is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking yet: a dense thriller that is also a meditation on the nature, and the possible future, of human consciousness.

Given the extensive abuse to which we subject mechanical helpers that aren’t endowed with consciousness, why wouldn’t they turn on us if they were?

Despite suffering life-threatening injuries, he regained consciousness and crawled to a road where wildlife rangers rescued him.

Only this time, it asserts its environmental consciousness like a middle finger.