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"ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 39",
"text": "Consciousness is universal and precedes even the formation of our solar system.",
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"ref": "2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Religion Codex entry",
"text": "The pantheistic mainstream asari religion is siari, which translates roughly as \"All is one.\" The faithful agree on certain core truths: the universe is a consciousness, every life within it is an aspect of the greater whole, and death is a merging of one's spiritual energy back into the greater universal consciousness. Siarists don't specifically believe in reincarnation; they believe that spiritual energy returned to the universal consciousness upon death will eventually be used to fill new mortal vessels.",
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"ref": "2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847",
"text": "Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.",
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{
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "conciencia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "awareness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "medvetande"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "malay"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "šuur",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "шуур"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "huš",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "ҳуш"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "ogohi",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "огоҳи"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "añ",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "аң"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "huş",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "һуш"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "cētanamu",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "చేతనము"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sà-dtì",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "สติ"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "īme"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "bilinç"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "şuur"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "aň"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "svidómistʹ",
"sense": "awareness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "свідо́мість"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prytómnistʹ",
"sense": "awareness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прито́мність"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "śu'ūr",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "شعور"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "ang",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "ئاڭ"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "shuur"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "ong"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "ý thức"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "awareness",
"word": "yisiz"
}
],
"word": "consciousness"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": ì-sek / ì-siak / ì-sit vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"consciousness"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "consciousness",
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}
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