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Conscious Delusions
<p>Views of the world come from watching, looking, and feeling emotional relationships between people, things, and places. This fabricated series establishes the willingness to believe the images are actual photographic records by combining subjects viewing a variety of images. Metaphorical …
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Conscious Conceptual Thought
… the view that the phenomenal character of some conscious experiences is constituted in part by conceptual representations, including conceptual representations which are independent of sensory representations. In Chapter 1 I present an overview of debates in cognitive phenomenology. In Chapter 2 …
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On the fate and consequences of conscious and non-conscious vision
What we consciously see in our everyday life is not an exact copy of the information that our eyes receive from the external world. Our brain actively elaborates and transforms the light that impinges onto the two dimensional surface of our retinas to create complex three dimensional scenes full of …
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The conscious mind unified.
The current state of consciousness research is at an impasse. Neuroscience faces a variety of recalcitrant problems regarding the neurobiological binding together of states of consciousness. Philosophy faces the combination problem, that of holistically unifying phenomenal consciousness. In …
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Voluntary Action and Conscious Intention
<p>Traditional experimental methodology in neuroscience involves comparing responses to different stimuli to make inferences about the human brain. However, human volition entails making decisions and acting in a manner that is underdetermined by the external environment. Investigations of the …
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Child's Temperament and Conscious Sedation Outcomes
… temperament and its effect on the outcome of conscious sedation using the following agents: Chloral Hydrate (35mg/kg), Meperidine (2mg/kg), and Hydroxyzine (2mg/kg).The Emotionality, Activity, Sociability (EAS) Temperament Survey for Children was used to measure the child's temperament. The …
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Energy conscious decisions for cluster housing
Energy conscious design should become an inherent part of the design process. This study shall present energy conscious guidelines in a format that can be integrated into the decision-making process. The three elements which can be manipulated through this design process are outlined to provide a …
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Critically Conscious White Teachers: A Case Study
… narratives of five White-identifying critically conscious teachers to understand how their critical consciousness is expressed and the opportunities and challenges they experience because of their anti-racism work. The central research question of this study was: How do critically conscious White …
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Crossing borders: conscious journeys with my family
This work of creative non-fiction encompasses episodes of travel motivated by the author’s desire to expose her children to different cultures and philosophies as an antidote to her own experiences of growing up during apartheid. The journeys are undertaken over a period of 18 years, starting in …
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Possibilities for health-conscious assisted housing mobility
… staff, and how managers might offer more health-conscious programming. Based on a review of pathways between health and housing and neighborhoods, I identified five areas of intervention around which managers could build healthful programs: housing units, neighborhoods, health behavior and …
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Decision making in the absence of conscious awareness
… our environment, most of which will never reach conscious awareness. The extent to which unconsciously processed information influences our decisions has been a particularly controversial question over the past decade. This thesis investigates whether information processed in the absence of a …
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A multi-stakeholder abridged environmentally conscious design approach
… through approaches such as Environmentally Conscious Design (ECD). Existing research has not yet sought to understand the role of stakeholders in ECD. New ECD approaches and techniques will have to be able to adapt and interface effectively with various stakeholders in the design and …
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Data Representation Methods For Environmentally Conscious Product Design
The challenge of holistically integrating environmental sustainability considerations with design decision-making requires novel representations for design and sustainability-related data that allow designers to understand correlations among them. Challenges such as (1) lack of suitable data & …
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Renal blood flow in the conscious, unrestrained rat
… Doppler flow probe) and blood pressure in the conscious unrestrained rat. Special care was taken to maintain and observe the rats under normal, physiological conditions. Since the Doppler flow probe measures blood velocity rather than flow, changes in renal arterial diameter will alter the …
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How Conscious Is Transfer of a Specific Rule
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Context-conscious fairness throughout the machine learning lifecycle
… in computer science by presenting context-conscious methodologies throughout ML de- velopment lifecycles. The core chapters are organised by each phase: design, build, test, and monitor. In the design phase, we propose a systematic way of defining fairness by understanding the key ethical …
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Is conscious perception a continuous or dichotomous phenomenon?
Is our conscious visual experience of the world characterised by events that appear suddenly or gradually in our awareness? This apparently simple question has proved difficult to resolve. Inspired by the global neuronal workspace theory, the dichotomous view (e.g. Sergent and Dehaene, 2004) …
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Counterfactuals, dispositions, and conscious experience : essays on entropy
… entropy increases over time. Chapter 3 concerns conscious experience. Take any world with fundamental dynamical laws rather like ours, but in which entropy doesn't increase. Take any system in that world that changes state by changing thermodynamically. That system has no experiences whatsoever. …
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Barriers to implementing energy conscious design in housing.
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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