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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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Its strangeness is the embodiment of a child’s yearning consciousness, a landscape of such heightened sensitivity that it can seem almost otherworldly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

For this characteristic, judgments of humans and AI followed largely similar patterns, suggesting that people interpret awareness and consciousness in fundamentally different ways.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

She was 59 when she collapsed during a Christmas holiday in Spain, lost consciousness, stopped breathing and had no pulse or heartbeat after suffering a cardiac arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Perhaps, if you want to be really cynical about it, you could boil down all of human nature and biology and the emergence of consciousness into “a lot of math” as well.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

I could not sleep, but kept going in and out of consciousness.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

“Alien: Earth” follows a group of children whose consciousnesses are transferred into synthetic adult bodies.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

Their brains have been surgically altered, dividing their work life and home life into separate consciousnesses which are described by the company as “innies” and “outies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

We attempted to be as objective as possible but were also aware that there are countless other exhibitions that, whatever their contributions to the culture at large, live on in individual consciousnesses.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

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

It was as though some devilish psychological contrivance had suddenly hooked their two consciousnesses to the same thought.

From The Vagrant Duke by George Gibbs


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