Word: conscious
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...social comment that had made him the world's most popular living playwright. He stopped setting plays among hip and prosperous insiders like himself, dwelling in the Meccas of Manhattan or Beverly Hills. He began instead to evoke the bygone lives of the world he came from, people so conscious of their ordinariness, their smallness, their vulnerability to vast social forces that for them laughter could not be a healing touch, only a palliative relief...
...This moment is the Kitty Hawk of androids," Hanson says. "We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention." Can conscious robots...
...working out and trying to be diet conscious. It's all about diet and exercise and it will always be about that...
...outrage and action. His organization, Emma?s, created in 1949 to enlist the homeless themselves in the work of building shelters and a future, is now present in 35 countries. Every public figure in France has lamented his passing. President Jacques Chirac said that France "loses an immense figure, a conscious, an incarnation of goodness...
...monks as well as the patients with depression or OCD, the conscious act of thinking about their thoughts in a particular way rearranged the brain. The discovery of neuroplasticity, in particular the power of the mind to change the brain, is still too new for scientists, let alone the rest of us, to grasp its full meaning. But even as it offers new therapies for illnesses of the mind, it promises something more fundamental: a new understanding of what it means to be human...