awareness

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This awareness is a reflected awareness.

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  1. The state of being aware. Recognition of reality in our view is not awareness. Mind, X. 525. This consciousness I speak of is not a direct perception of the Absolute, but a general awareness that it exists. New Princeton Rev., II. 178.

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  • She finally collapsed above the high water line, drenched to the skin by pounding rain Koot ... Kynan Malcolm The last thing to impinge on her awareness was the knowledge that she was an utter failure She woke slowly, in pain. —  Time Scout
  • If we help robots become self-aware, we're not going to do it, because we want to design pseudo-humans, but because this way they will "serve" us better and the awareness will be a side-effect. —  ACM TechNews
  • The exploration of a giant alien artifact twists that familiar subgenre with a plausible, though ultimately unconvincing, argument that human self-awareness is a deleterious evolutionary accident. —  Stromata Blog
  • This awareness is the criteria for good defensive drivers. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Effective dashboards enhance situation awareness, and situation awareness is the ultimate measure of a dashboard's effectiveness. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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