Sentences with phrase «about human abilities»

Two offered clarifications to their choices; one novel about oppression and discrimination was about the human ability to overcome terrible tragedy.

They were much more skeptical about the human ability to reason.

Not exact matches

The idea — that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success — quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.

In retrospect, the new Tesla seems rather pedestrian coming from a man who muses about flying cars and the day when robots replace humans, but at least he possesses a superhuman ability to generate publicity.

The larger sociocultural conversation about introverts and extroverts is another arena where a robot's ability to read and react to human cues can help, she notes.

I am excited about the potential of Cintell to do just that, allowing organizations to operate and share a common platform of relevant persona - based customer insights, and giving them the ability to be not only customer - centered but also human - centered in their marketing and sales efforts.»

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

In summary, we human beings have the ability to think truthfully about the world, but our thinking often gets derailed by considerations that run counter to the truth.

Absolutely nothing special about humans compared to dolphins, monkeys, cat, dogs, or ants, other than our amazing ability for self - delusion!)

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

I have faith in the human ability to grasp meaning out of chaos, to forge determination in the way of nihilism, to love, to hope, and to give a damn about the feelings of others.

For example, since skin color has no demonstrable relation to intellectual ability, esthetic sensitivity, or character, it follows that no significant conclusions about a person's characteristically human behavior can be drawn from the nature of his pigmentation.

The biblical hope is not based on human ability to sort out the problems of the world and order its future, but it is based on God's future, a future which God is bringing about in Jesus Christ.

It is really bizarre that the GOP bellows about wanting «small» government and more «freedom» while at the same time working to destroy human rights and true ability to choose for oneself.

God knew of Jeremiah's doubts about his own ability to serve as a prophet, and so indicated to Jeremiah that God knew him better than Jeremiah knew himself (Marston and Forster, God's Strategy in Human History, 232).

We discovered the truth about genes, and so we developed the ability «to create novel organisms expressing domesticated characteristics built to satisfy human needs and the newly emerging desires.»

They can't see the basic human psychology in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to create heaven or hell.

O'Connor was realistic about human nature and its ability to resist grace (p. 307), and she understood the ebbs and flows of faith.

He proposed seven such amendments, including: «We will take charge over our genetic programming and achieve mastery of our biological and neurological processes... refining and augmenting our physical and intellectual abilities beyond those of any human in history» and «we will cautiously yet boldly reshape our motivational patterns and emotional responses... We will seek to improve upon typical human and emotional responses, bring about refined emotions.»

[118] Scripture and reason agree that there is something different about humans and animals that exceeds just higher intellectual ability.

@World..., I'm still trying to reconcile the statement,»... atheists want to take a limited 2000 or so year old childish concept of God and refute it...» with «Nothing has ever changed about God, just human ability to fully perceive and understand IT...» What is the «limited 2000... year old» concept of God that atheists want to refute and how is it different from the current concept of God.

Talking about dreams, I wonder how the «Darwinians» would explain how humans evolved the ability to dream.

Perhaps fatigued departments and weary scholars will commit themselves anew to basic arts of human flourishing — the capacity to read comprehendingly and comprehensively, the ability to think carefully and clearly about ideas, the power to communicate winsomely.

Waldorf Education has as its ideal a person who is knowledgeable about the world and human history and culture, who has many varied practical and artistic abilities, who feels a deep reverence for and communion with the natural world, and who can act with initiative and in freedom in the face of economic and political pressures.

Humans are social creatures, and our ability to connect with others is what our lives are really about.

Mothers are amazed to hear about the many remarkable qualities of human milk, their bodies fantastic ability to produce milk as well as the positive impact breastfeeding has on families, the environment, and society.

After I gave birth to my son, I wanted to be reminded of the fact that my entire life was and is about more than my ability to procreate, birth, and raise another human being.

We human beings have incredible ability to adapt to just about any kind of treatment that allows us to physically survive.

One thing that struck me about WeiWei was his ability to tell the human story and shine a light on individual characters abused by the Chinese state.

The more that we understand about the human brain and how it processes political information, the clearer it is that engagement depends on campaigns» ability to move voters emotionally.

The ability to gaze inward may be an integral part of the human condition, but so is our inability to be alone, he says: «Because we're so attuned to be alert to danger, there is something about the human mind that finds it hard to turn in on itself.»

«I am leading a research protocol to assess the systematic impact of how electricity affects human beings... to answer questions about the health of the victim and their ability to function at varying times post-shock,» says Richard Moyers, a researcher at ARL (see below).

The cognitive model has been validated using a database of about 1500 input sentences, based on literature on early language development, and has responded by producing a total of about 500 sentences in output, containing nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and other word classes, demonstrating the ability to express a wide range of capabilities in human language processing.

In many of the neurology - informed history epics, authors are often studiedly neutral about the raw mental ability of humans to forge new paradigms.

«Americans worried about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood: US adults show more concern than enthusiasm for using these to «enhance» human abilities.»

So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.

Spelke, an unabashed optimist, believes our growing understanding of cognitive abilities will eventually reduce, rather than inspire, divisions about our human qualities.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

One of the puzzling and fascinating things about humans is that we have the ability to form enormous groups — the United States, with 290 million people, or Britain, with 60 million people — that are led by very small numbers of individuals.

The researchers, who published their work online November 5 in Nature, are now investigating just how long the improvement might last and how deep sleep affects memory — for some reason, humans begin to lose the ability to sleep deeply around 40 years of age, at about the same time that memory begins to decline.

In theorizing about the connection between PM2.5 and ALRI, Dr. Horne said: «The air pollution itself may make the human body more susceptible to infection or may impair the body's ability to fight off the infectious agents.

Though a range of developmental scenarios in multiple brain regions is surely at work in ASDs, the researchers said the ability to place these specific genetic mutations in one specific set of cells — among hundreds of cell types in the brain, and at a specific point in human development — is a critical step in beginning to understand how autism comes about.

«It opens up our ability to ask questions about how Middle Pleistocene hominins lived in this region and it might be a key to understanding the nature of interbreeding and population dispersals across Eurasia with modern humans and archaic populations such as Neanderthals.»

The researchers say they'd now like to learn more about how these genes influenced humans» ability to survive and what implications they might have for disease.

While there is general consensus that the ability to imagine a never - before - seen object or concept is a unique and distinctive human trait, there is little that we know about the neurological mechanism behind it.

Michael Shermer is spot on about the human brain's pattern - seeking abilities, but not about the reasons why people engage in...

That said, Counterclockwise succeeds in presenting powerful ideas about largely untapped human abilities, grounded in a body of fi endishly intriguing research.

The moths are about equivalent to dogs in their ability to detect scents and both are several thousand times more skillful than humans.

But new research suggests that ravens — birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom — share at least some of the human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.

Instead of using humans — who, admittedly, expect salaries, paid leave, and health insurance — to evaluate applications and decide which candidates possess or can quickly learn needed skills, companies entrust these tasks to computer algorithms, which are cheaper in the short term but lack any ability to judge what resumes and applications indicate about applicants» abilities.