Consciousness Studies

noun a mental state of heightened suggestibility, typically induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which involves a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions

• Hypnosis is a therapeutic technique that involves entering a trance-like state to focus on specific thoughts or behaviors.
• Some people believe that hypnosis can help with things like quitting smoking or reducing anxiety.
• I heard hypnosis can make you do crazy things like cluck like a chicken!
• The soothing music had a hypnotic effect, lulling me into a state of relaxation.

noun a powerful hallucinogenic drug that produces profound distortions in perception and thought

• Research has shown that LSD can have profound effects on the brain.
• I heard that some people take LSD at music festivals.
• Let's drop some LSD and see where the night takes us.
• His mind was like a kaleidoscope after taking LSD.

noun a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior

adjective made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural

• The development of an artificial conscience raises ethical questions about the role of machines in decision-making.
• I wonder if one day we'll have artificial consciences in our robots.
• Dude, imagine a robot with a fake conscience trying to act all moral and stuff.
• Her actions were so calculated, it was as if she had an artificial conscience guiding her every move.