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And, furthermore, this "something other than itself," which Nature involves, is "a self-distinguishing consciousness"; i.e. something to which we can attribute personality.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton

Nature, Green keeps insisting, consists only in relations, and these imply the action of a mind that is eternal; a self-distinguishing consciousness which itself escapes from the relations by which it determines other things.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

In the first place, the self-distinguishing process may be an activity by means of which the self specifies its own activity and satisfaction.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas