| 21. | Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
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| 22. | However, Plotinus does not address whether we know external objects, unlike Schopenhauer and other modern philosophers.
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| 23. | When they do this, they modify their reflex response to accommodate the external objects into reflex actions.
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| 24. | Phenomenalism is the theory that representations ( or sense data ) of external objects are all that exist.
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| 25. | As in observations of astronomical objects the external object may have ceased to exist long before the experience occurs.
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| 26. | It is a process of withdrawing one's thoughts from external objects, things, person, situation.
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| 27. | Dreaming has nothing to do with the eyes, because it has nothing to do with seeing external objects.
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| 28. | By focusing on the pure awareness substrate of cognition instead of the external objects, the practitioner reaches illumination.
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| 29. | Consciousness is sometimes defined as the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
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| 30. | Kant asserts that experience is based both on the perception of external objects and " a priori " knowledge.
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