conscious
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His research includes developing new ways to identify signs of awareness in patients who appear unresponsive, helping to push the boundaries of how scientists detect and understand conscious states.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
"It's more about being really conscious about what we're showing them, and if we are we watching something with them, we are watching it as a family."
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
The point: Dollar General appears ready to generate sales and earnings that satisfy or surpass expectations, even if consumer spending were to slow under the premise that shoppers would become more bargain conscious.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
If that assumption is correct, then in principle there is no reason machines couldn’t eventually become conscious as well.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
In all the stories about him he sleeps forever, immortal, but never conscious.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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