All 4 Uses of
conscious
in
Flowers for Algernon -- Short Story
- I told Dr Strauss what good is it to get smart in my sleep. I want to be smart when I'm awake. He says its the same thing and i have two minds. Theres the subconscious and the conscious (thats how you spell it). And one dont tell the other one what its doing. They dont even talk to each other.
p. 6..1conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
- I just looked up the word in the dictionary Dr Strauss gave me. The word is subconscious. adj. of the nature of mental operations yet not present in consciousness; as, subconscious conflict of desires.
p. 6..3 *
- I still don't understand how that conscious and unconscious mind works,
p. 9..7
- I still don't understand how that conscious and unconscious mind works,
p. 9..7unconscious = mental activity of which one is unawarestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
Definition:
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(conscious as in: the conscious mind) mental activity of which one is self-aware