This compromise kept slavery in the United States intact. The founders also decided not to do anything about the issue of slavery for twenty years. Someone else would have to deal with it. In 1820 with the admission of Missouri to the Union, the issue of slavery came up again. There was already a great deal of tension between the North and the South. The South was highly agricultural. It wanted to keep slavery as a way of life on their plantations.
Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind.
What defines human consciousness? The world recently learned that human consciousness can be switched off and on by scientists; but what constitutes being conscious? What does consciousness imply? Consciousness resides in that mysterious and marvelous organ â the brain. Consisting of three pounds of mostly fatty material and containing 100 billion neurons, the brain is the seat of human awareness and identity.