21. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. 22. However, Plotinus does not address whether we know external objects , unlike Schopenhauer and other modern philosophers. 23. When they do this, they modify their reflex response to accommodate the external objects into reflex actions. 24. Phenomenalism is the theory that representations ( or sense data ) of external objects are all that exist. 25. As in observations of astronomical objects the external object may have ceased to exist long before the experience occurs. 26. It is a process of withdrawing one's thoughts from external objects , things, person, situation. 27. Dreaming has nothing to do with the eyes, because it has nothing to do with seeing external objects . 28. By focusing on the pure awareness substrate of cognition instead of the external objects , the practitioner reaches illumination. 29. Consciousness is sometimes defined as the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. 30. Kant asserts that experience is based both on the perception of external objects and " a priori " knowledge.
