Adjective

(en adjective)

Alert, awake.

Aware.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

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Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.

* 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

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, date = 2013-07-09 , author = Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe , title = Cognition, brains and Riemann , site = plus.maths.org , url = http://plus.maths.org/content/cognition-brains-and-riemann , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}

Recent findings in cognitive' neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, ' cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.

Intellectual