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"A social consciousness is sexy," said Relationship Expert Trish McDermott, a leading authority on online dating and Chief Matchmaker for Engage. "Singles are likely to attract more potential partners if they demonstrate they are keen on being green, or care about issues that may transcend their own lives such as poverty or homelessness," McDermott added. Engage members demonstrate their altruism every day as they use the site's Play Matchmaker(TM) features to help singles connect.
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Perhaps the most basic issue posed by any version of the Why question is whether or not consciousness of the relevant sort has any causal impact at all. If it has no effects and makes no causal difference whatsoever, then it would seem unable to play any significant role in the systems or organisms in which it is present... undercutting at the outset most inquiries about its possible value. Nor can the threat of epiphenomenal irrelevance be simply dismissed as an obvious non-option, since at least some forms of consciousness have been seriously alleged in the recent literature to lack causal status. (See the entry on epiphenomenalism.) Such worries have been raised especially with regard to qualia and qualitative consciousness (Huxley 1874, Jackson 1982, Chalmers 1996), but challenges have also been leveled against the causal status of other sorts including meta-mental consciousness (Velmans 1991).
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While Americans might not be aware of practical energy-saving methods and products, the survey shows the desire to save energy and money is within the American consciousness. In fact, 61 percent of Americans are more concerned about energy consumption than other environmental issues such as smog, water pollution and conservation. Additionally, 82 percent say if they could save on their annual energy bills by using a specialized product, they would do so.
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