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...c.1889-90)] Adolf Hitler as an infant Adolf Hitler is born on April 20th in Braunau am Inn in the empire of Austria-Hungary. His parents' families are both of poor peasant backgrounds. His father, Alois, regarded as strict and distant, becomes a customs official and expects Adolf to follow a career into the civil service. Hitler’s mother, Klara, is of a more...

...c.1825, caricature, pencil, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria. Photo: AKG Images, London/Erich Lessing. Discussion The main differences between this Schubertiad and a modern concert performance are obvious enough from the sepia drawing: the audience is small and crammed together very close to the performers. Most of the women are sitting in the front...

...oneself as a distinct entity, separate from other people or things in one's environment (C. Evans, Dictionary of the Mind, Brain and Behaviour, quoted in Smith, 1985, 129). A state is conscious if it has experiential properties. The totality of the experiential properties of a state are ‘what it is like’ to have it (adapted from Block, 1995, 230). Consciousness is a word used by Philosophers, to signify that immediate ......