higher consciousness

higher consciousness
a) (cognitive theory) a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness :But that the self-consciousness may be the modification of a higher form of being, perhaps of a higher consciousness, and this again of a yet higher, and so on in an infinite regressus (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria,1817, chapter 12)
b) (Hegelianism) the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind

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