Essays on Consciousness

The concept of consciousness has long been considered the most challenging in human thought. How consciousness manifests in living entities is to many an almost impossible question to answer. Moreover, it has recently become a topic of concern about whether non-human entities are conscious, such as machines, or robots. This essay will discuss how an...

John was diagnosed at the age of 45 with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). On December 2, 2016, John was rushed to the hospital with a high fever, nausea, and delirium. Emergency testing revealed a dangerously high blood glucose level and sepsis from a wound on John’s toe. While in the hospital, John thought about the...

In present day, psychology emphasizes the importance of various mental states and processes to study cognition and consciousness. Psychologists conclude that consciousness is our awareness of ourselves and our environment. They realize that some information is processed automatically, while some is processed with effort. After 1960, when psychologists took advantage of progress in neuroscience to...

States of consciousness is a term used to describe the global states that are associated with the action and use of pharmacological agents, hypnosis, meditation, sleep disorders and a routine cycle of sleep. Different levels of consciousness bring along varying behaviour patterns that change with each situation. Consciousness is a term used to mean awareness....

 Class consciousness is a concept most readily associated with the work of Karl Marx. Marx did not specifically seek to evoke this in his work, yet class consciousness grew organically from interactions between different social categories of people. As a solely popularised Marxist term, it plays with the forces of production and the ownership of...

Introduction: Cultural Consciousness’s aim is to identify the uniqueness of a “Third Culture Kid” perspective, as expressed through contemporary art practices. I am attempting to understand what it means to grow up as a “ Third Culture kid”, someone who has grown up in countries and cultures other than that of my parents and my...

Brand Consciousness Brand consciousness in our society is proliferating rapidly. “Are you brand conscious ?” If you ask about me, so, of course, I am not. Being brand conscious has become a trend now. It would not be wrong to say that a large number of people in society are following this immorality. People are...

Female consciousness is an important part of feminism. It means that women are aware of their inferior position in society. The Story of an Hour and Shakespeare’s sister are both emphasis on Feminism. The former was written by Kate Chopin (1850–1904) who was an American writer, the latter was written by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) who...

Selective Attention Selective attention is a process in which brain directs the awareness into relevant stimuli, while at the same time, ignoring irrelevant stimuli in the environment. Selective attention is an important process as there is a certain limit of how much information can be processed at a time, and selective attention allows the brain...

The relationship between attention and consciousness is a topic of significance and perpetual debate. Specifically, the study of consciousness has been associated with a recent focus on the problem of measurement. Many argue that a metric for consciousness is vital for experimental design and for mapping experimental results to current theories. “Because we feel that...