co-consciousadj.n.

1904 W. James in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 536 The conjunctive relation that has given most trouble to philosophy is the co-conscious transition, so to call it, by which one experience passes into another when both belong to the same self.

1906 G. T. Ladd Philos. Relig. II. 141 Is there consciousness, or self-consciousness, anywhere in the wide world of things and selves..? In this consciousness, or self-consciousness, God is co-conscious.

1909 W. James in Westm. Gaz. 15 May 4/2 Some form of superhuman life with which we may, unknown to ourselves, be co-conscious.

1921 Sidis Symptom. Psychopathic Dis. 77 Hypnoid states are co-existent, ‘co-conscious’ states and may develop into co-existent, ‘co-conscious’ personalities.

1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Sept. 8 Investigation show it [sc. an emotion] to be fully adapted to the nature of the simultaneous co-conscious process.

1914 M. Prince Unconscious i. 1 I divide the Subconscious into two parts, namely the Unconscious and the Coconscious.

1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe vi. 268 You can hear the vibration of an electric contact-maker, smell the ozone, see the sparks, and feel the thrill, co-consciously as it were or in one field of experience.

1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 308 Prince adduces very strong evidence in support of the view that..the bodily changes express an emotional train of thinking or recollection that goes on concurrently or co-consciously with the conscious activity of the subject.

1903 W. James Let. 25 Feb. (1920) II. 184 I think that the indispensable hypothesis in a philosophy of pure experience is that of many kinds of other experience than ours, that the question co-consciousness/conscious synthesis (its conditions, etc.) becomes a most urgent question.

1906 G. T. Ladd Philos. Relig. II. 141 The conception of the Divine Omniscience as a species of cognitive activity which is at one and the same time ‘Self-consciousness’, and ‘Other-consciousness’, in the form of an all-embracing co-consciousness, meets with its supreme psychological objection when it is applied to God's knowledge of the future.

1920 Discovery Nov. 338/2 The possibilities of co-consciousness, i.e. the coexistence of two or more such fragments [of the conscious] in the mind.

1956 A. J. Ayer Probl. Knowl. iv. 161 The abnormal cases in which people claim to remember the experiences of others; cases of alleged co-consciousness, or cases in which people profess to have ‘recaptured’ the experiences of the dead.