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the universe's spookiest trick: matter that woke up and started asking why.
means The state of knowing, noticing, or being conscious of something — whether a fact, a feeling, or the world around you.
from Built from "aware," which traces back to Old English "gewær" — meaning watchful or cautious — itself rooted in a Germanic family of words about guarding and looking out (a cousin of "wary" and "ward"). The "-ness" tacked on the end is the old English suffix that turns a quality into a thing you can name. So at its heart, awareness was once about keeping a careful eye out — the alertness of someone watching for danger, only later softened into the gentler sense of simply knowing something is there.
- split second
- Brain decides before you consciously know it
- hard problem
- Science still can't explain why experience feels like anything
- blind spots
- Vision skips the gap where your optic nerve exits
- meta layer
- Awareness of being aware loops forever inward
- attention cost
- Focusing on one thing blinds you to others
world aids day — december 1st global campaign since 1988, largest health awareness day
breast cancer awareness month — october in us, pink ribbon campaign raising $billions annually since 1985
mental health awareness day — october 10th un observance, reaching 210 million+ people in 150+ countries