Consciousness- Raising

Inspiring radical spiritual awareness in self or others.

(See also: Consciousness- Raising, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

There are various aspects of consciousness generally deemed necessary for a machine to be artificially conscious. A variety of functions in which consciousness plays a role were suggested by Bernard Baars. The aim of AC is to define whether and how these and other aspects of consciousness can be synthesized in an engineered artefact such as digital computer. This list is not exhaustive; there are many others not covered. A generally accepted criterion for sentience and consciousness is self-awareness: one dictionary defines conscio ...

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There are various aspects of consciousness generally deemed necessary for a machine to be artificially conscious. A variety of functions in which consciousness plays a role were suggested by Bernard Baars. The aim of AC is to define whether and how these and other aspects of consciousness can be synthesized in an engineered artefact such as digital computer. This list is not exhaustive; there are many others not covered. A generally accepted criterion for sentience and consciousness is self-awareness: one dictionary defines conscio ...

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Artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - The nature of consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Information processing and consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Consciousness in digital computers, Artificial consciousness - Schools of thought, Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness as a field of study, Artificial consciousness - Practical approaches, Artificial consciousness - Franklin’s Intelligent Distribution Agent, Artificial consciousness - Haikonen’s cognitive architecture, Artificial consciousness - Testing for artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - The ethics of artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness in literature and movies

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. In comparison with the Black Power movement in the United States, the Black Consciousness movement felt little need to reconstruct any sort of golden cultural heritage. African linguistic and cultural traditions were alive and well in the country. Short stories published predominately in Drum magazine had led to the 1950s being called the Drum decade, and future Nobel Prize winner N ...

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Black Consciousness Movement, Black Consciousness Movement - History, Black Consciousness Movement - Steve Biko and the formation of Black Consciousness, Black Consciousness Movement - Early years: 1960-1976, Black Consciousness Movement - The Soweto riots and after: 1976-present, Black Consciousness Movement - Black Consciousness in literature, Black Consciousness Movement - Important figures in the movement, Black Consciousness Movement - Related groups

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Siva consciousness: Sivachaitanya.

A broad term naming the experience or state of being conscious of Siva in a multitude of ways, such as in the five expressed in the following meditation.

-       Vital Breath: prana. Experience the inbreath and outbreath as Siva's will within your body. Become attuned to the ever-present pulse of the universe, knowing that nothing moves but by His divine will.

-       All Pervasive Energy: shakti. Become conscious of the flow of life within your body. Realize that it is the same universal energy within every living thing. Practice seeing the life energy within another's eyes.

-       Manifest Sacred Form: darshana. Hold in your mind a sacred form, such as Nataraja, Sivalinga or your satguru - who is Sadasiva - and think of nothing else. See every form as a form of our God Siva.

-       Inner Light: jyoti. Observe the light that illumines your thoughts. Concentrate only on that light, as you might practice being more aware of the light on a TV screen than of its changing pictures.

-       Sacred Sound: nada. Listen to the constant high-pitched ee sounding in your head. It is like the tone of an electrical transformer, a hundred tamburas distantly playing or a humming swarm of bees.

These five constitute the "Sivachaitanya Panchatantra," five simple experiences that bring the Divine into the reach of each individual. Sivachaitanya, of course, applies to deeper states of meditation and contemplation as well.

See: jnana, mind (five states of mind), Sivasayujya.

(See also: Siva consciousness, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

The first few pages tell of Nariman's subjection to increasing decay in physical health and stinging insults (revolving around his cost of medicine, lack of space and privacy, the daily routine of bedpans and urinals, sponge baths and bedsores) from his step-daughter. Very soon, the focus shifts to Roxana's household. With Nariman's inclusion, however, deterioration and decay creep into it. As Yezad comes to centre stage for the following part of the book, the author explores the problems faced by an average middle class family. Financial problems lure hi ...

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Unless artificial consciousness can be proven formally, judgments of the success of any implementation will depend on observation. The Turing test is a proposal for identifying machine intelligence as determined by a machine's ability to interact with a person. In the Turing test one has to guess whether the entity one is interacting with is a machine or a human. An artificially conscious entity could only pass an equivalent test when it had itself passed beyond the imaginations of observers and entered into ...

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Unless artificial consciousness can be proven formally, judgments of the success of any implementation will depend on observation. The Turing test is a proposal for identifying machine intelligence as determined by a machine's ability to interact with a person. In the Turing test one has to guess whether the entity one is interacting with is a machine or a human. An artificially conscious entity could only pass an equivalent test when it had itself passed beyond the imaginations of observers and entered into ...

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Artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - The nature of consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Information processing and consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Consciousness in digital computers, Artificial consciousness - Schools of thought, Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness as a field of study, Artificial consciousness - Practical approaches, Artificial consciousness - Franklin’s Intelligent Distribution Agent, Artificial consciousness - Haikonen’s cognitive architecture, Artificial consciousness - Testing for artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - The ethics of artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness in literature and movies

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Information processing consists of encoding a state, such as the geometry of an image, on a carrier such as a stream of electrons, and then submitting this encoded state to a series of transformations specified by a set of instructions called a program. In principle the carrier could be anything, even steel balls or onions, and the machine that implements the instructions need not be electronic, it could be mechanical or fluidic. Digital computers implement information processing. From the earliest days of digital computers people have suggested that these devices may one day be co ...

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Information processing consists of encoding a state, such as the geometry of an image, on a carrier such as a stream of electrons, and then submitting this encoded state to a series of transformations specified by a set of instructions called a program. In principle the carrier could be anything, even steel balls or onions, and the machine that implements the instructions need not be electronic, it could be mechanical or fluidic. Digital computers implement information processing. From the earliest days of digital computers people have suggested that these devices may one day be co ...

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Artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - The nature of consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Information processing and consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Consciousness in digital computers, Artificial consciousness - Schools of thought, Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness as a field of study, Artificial consciousness - Practical approaches, Artificial consciousness - Franklin’s Intelligent Distribution Agent, Artificial consciousness - Haikonen’s cognitive architecture, Artificial consciousness - Testing for artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - The ethics of artificial consciousness, Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness in literature and movies

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field of consciousness

In ESP experiences there are many potential combinations of seeing, hearing, sensing. When the medium is under a proper self-disciplined conscious control, he can be aware of the major thought-flow focus and simultaneously know of fringe or marginal awareness and impressions impinging into the periphery of consciousness

(See also: Field of consciousness, Body Mind and Soul)

Even though the concept of phases is widely-used in the physical sciences, it is not easy to define precisely. Before presenting the general definition, we will provide two common examples of phase phenomena: firstly, the ordinary solid, liquid, and gas phases of matter; secondly, the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of magnetic materials. Phase matter - Example 1: Solid liquid and gas phases. Water (H2O) is composed of water molecules, each of which is an oxygen atom attached to two hydrog ...

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Phase matter, Phase matter - Definition, Phase matter - Example 1: Solid liquid and gas phases, Phase matter - Example 2: Magnetic phases, Phase matter - General definition of phases, Phase matter - Other examples of phases, Phase matter - Phase diagrams, Phase matter - Metastable phases, Phase matter - Phase equilibrium, Phase matter - Emergence and universality

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The major framework of Yogācāra theory was developed by the two brothers Vasubandhu 世親 and Asaṅga 無著 in such treatises as the Abdhidharma-kośa-bhāsya 倶舍論, the Triṃśikā Vijñaptimātratāsiddhiḥ (Thirty Verses on Consciousness-only) 唯識三十頌, Mahāyāna-saṃgraha攝大乘論, and the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra瑜伽師地論. Dharmapala's Vijñaptimâtratâsiddhi-shâstra is an important commentary that resolved several doctrinal disp ...

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Consciousness-only, Consciousness-only - Doctrine, Consciousness-only - History

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According to the Vijñānavādins, embedded at the heart of Buddhism lies a seeming paradox. In contrast to the Brahmanic teachings of the Upanishads, the Buddha stated quite clearly that the self (atman) is an illusion and that man thus has no soul (anatman). However, there is transmigration (samsara) from one body to another. This poses a difficult question: "If there is no soul, what is it that reincarnates?" The theory of consciousness-only starts by explaining the regularity and coherence of sense impressions ...

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Consciousness-only, Consciousness-only - Doctrine, Consciousness-only - History

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QCD contains many flavours of quarks and no flavour changing interactions. Therefore quark flavours are conserved charges. As a result, one can use a chemical potential with respect to each flavour charge. At temperatures below and in the vicinity of the QCD scale, one needs only the chemical potentials for the up (u), down (d) and strange (s) flavours, because the remaining quark flavours are too heavy to participate in the dynamics. The physics implications are sometimes clearer if one instead uses chemical potentials for ba ...

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QCD matter, QCD matter - Thermodynamics, QCD matter - Order parameters, QCD matter - The phase diagram, QCD matter - The equation of state, QCD matter - Useful theoretical fictions, QCD matter - The quenched approximation, QCD matter - The chiral limit, QCD matter - The AdS/CFT limit, QCD matter - Weak coupling theory

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