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Albert Einstein's Theory Of Consciousness

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Albert Einstein's Theory Of Consciousness
Consciousness According to Webster’s Dictionary “consciousness is the part of the mind that makes you aware of your actions as being either morally right or wrong; a feeling that something you have done is morally wrong.” If one were asked to explain consciousness would they be able to explain it? Many intelligent people have spent years and years trying to fully understand what it is. People like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, and even functionalism theorists have come extremely close to defining this mysterious source of awareness. However, consciousness still remains one of the most debated topics in the subject of science and in the world of psychology. Albert Einstein stated that “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space.” He goes on to say a few thing like “He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a –kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.” One may never accept the fact that we all breathe the same air, but all men understand that they breathe. That is the point Mr. Einstein was trying to make, but not all people are coherently separated by the nature of consciousness. Mr. Einstein was probably very …show more content…
Preconscious, Unconscious, Repression, Suppression, and Nonconsciousness. Preconscious in psychodynamic theory, descriptive of material that is not in awareness by focusing one’s attention. Unconscious or unavailable to awareness under most circumstances. Freud believed that some painful memories and sexual and aggressive impulses are unacceptable to us, so we automatically eject them from awareness. Suppression the deliberate or unconscious placing of certain ideas, impulses or images out from awareness. Nonconsciousness is descriptive of bodily processes, such as growing hair, of which cannot become conscious; we may recognize that our hair is growing,

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