Questions tagged [awareness]
For questions about perceiving, feeling or otherwise being conscious of observations without necessarily understanding them.
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How likely abusers actually be aware of the hurt they made after having legal issue?
When there is an abuse happening, usually the perspectives of each side are:
Police and social worker: How to protect the victim?
The abuser: How to get out of trouble?
These goals are different, ...
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What does it mean if you are in a sleeping state and you hear a sound that your brain is immediately aware of?
When you are in a sleeping state ,i.e.lying in bed before your alarm clock rings, and you hear a noise or a voice that is not too loud and is not continuous but impulsive, and your brain immediately ...
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Is there a term for when a tool is perceived as an extension of your body?
Is there a specific term that describes the phenomenon where you perceive a tool as an extension of the body?
An example would be riding a bicycle. The more often you ride a bicycle the less you have ...
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How to measure awareness of a concept continuously after Ps received more information?
I am trying to measure whether Ps range awareness (IV; being aware about the actual range of an electric car and connected charging infrastructure and knowing that people commonly underestimate these) ...
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Thinking about What Others Think of You
When a mind develops, it goes through numerous stages of awareness, such as (not necessarily in order)
Awareness of others
Awareness of self
Awareness of other's thoughts (this may not be a discrete ...
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At what point does a human become self-aware?
What are the conditions for being self-aware? If this answer can not be answered by naming specific traits, behavior unique to a self-aware being, complexity of development or other tangible concepts, ...
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Can the mind be trained to equanimously observe compulsive urges/cravings (without giving in / acting out)?
Are there any practices or habits that one can employ, either frequently or on a daily basis, to train one's mind to equanimously observe (be aware of) compulsive urges or cravings, without giving in ...
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Could brainwaves be the fenomena gives rise to consciousness [closed]
I have speculated for a long time that brain waves could be the "location" of human consciousness or indeed the "soul". My argument for this is the following:
They vary with different states of ...
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How to examine person's awareness of a certain topic?
I am conducting a case study on the topic of refugees and asylum seekers. My particular interest is: How aware is my test subject of the reasons (political persecution, famine, war, ...) why these ...
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Objective test for self-awareness?
Are there any means by which an observed entity (e.g.: an AI) can be tested for self-awareness using/applying/affecting mainly its visual-oral-auditory-senses and observed responses of same? Failing ...
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Is continuous split or meta - awareness a scientifically supported concept?
There are a number of spiritual practices that practice self-awareness and continuous awareness of one's thoughts and actions (for example the teachings of Ekhart Tolle):
Tolle writes that "the ...
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How close is it to reality in future of consciousness to be transferable as shown in the movie Chappie?
This question was inspired by the most creative thing ever to come up in a movie, namely the transfer of a consciousness from one body to another (may it be biological, or via non-biological methods). ...
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Are there “awareness” related mirror neurons or processes in the brain that get activated by awareness?
I'm reading the "The Power of Now" book by Ekhart Tolle, in which he describes a spiritual practice by which attention/awareness is focused on the currently experienced mental state. For example, ...
