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1 1| WITH regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they 2 1| this much is clear, that waking and sleep appertain to the 3 1| evidently a privation of waking. For contraries, in natural 4 1| criterion by which we know the waking person to be awake is identical 5 1| his own consciousness. If waking, then, consists in nothing 6 1| perception. [Thus sleep and waking are not attributes of pure 7 1| is clear that sleep and waking are not affections of such 8 1| longer. Accordingly, if the waking period is determined by 9 1| this is not necessary; if waking is the contrary of sleeping, 10 1| powerlessness arising from excess of waking, and excess of waking is 11 1| of waking, and excess of waking is in its origin sometimes 12 1| is neither sleeping nor waking. But creatures which have 13 2| is therefore evident that waking and sleeping are an affection 14 2| conservation of animals. But the waking state is for an animal its 15 2| from which the affection of waking or sleeping arises in animals. 16 2| accordingly that if sleeping and waking are affections of this organ, 17 2| organ in which, sleep and waking originate, is self-evident [ 18 2| and perform many acts like waking acts, but not without a 19 2| these acts which are like waking acts, has been already explained 20 3| in which the affection of waking and sleeping originates, 21 3| account for the occurrence of waking and sleep. For sleep, as 22 3| seizures occur in sleep, not in waking hours. For when the spirit [