Everything was tied up trying to define consciousness.

You don't know how to define consciousness.

Its main purpose was to define consciousness as an act of negation (a transcendence (philosophy) of the given world).

"And I want them to define consciousness for us."

Occupation always defined class and class defined social consciousness and status.

Defining consciousness in humanist terms means that other social relations also get psychologized or ignored.

These are the scopes of action and understanding that define consciousness and which at the same time ground it in the material world of nature.

Such a tautologous circle was a travesty of logic until Susan accepted the fact that medical science had not advanced enough to define consciousness precisely.

Budiansky simply finesses this complex problem by defining consciousness in a way that limits it to humans.

Locke defined consciousness as "the perception of what passes in a man's own mind."