Sentences with phrase «activities of the organism»

Every activity of the organism, as Mead has observed, «altered the form of itself, and the form then handed on the change to the next generation.21 The effort of the organism to adapt itself to these circumstances may, as Bergson has said, be simply mechanical and external; but it may also involve consciousness and will.

Environmental conditions could be said to be the occasions of change in the activities of the organism; but the decisive thrust of evolutionary change was internal process of a sort.

Then we may see subjectivity as pertaining to the activity of an organism taken as a whole.

The energy for the vital activity of any organism comes from food, and is generated by the means of redox processes in the body.

The combination of suitable probiotics and prebiotics enhances survival and activity of the organism, for example, an FOS in conjunction with a Bifidobacterium strain or lactitol in conjunction with Lactobacillus strains [23].

Trace fossils record the activity of an organism.

Ice plays an important role in the development and sustenance of temperate to polar ecosystems because it creates conditions conducive to ice - edge primary production, which provides the primary food source in polar ecosystems; it supports the activity of organisms that ensure energy transfer from primary producers (algae and phytoplankton) to higher trophic levels (fish, marine birds, and mammals); and, as a consequence, it maintains and supports abundant biological communities.

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We don't know how it is grounded in brain activity, nor whether it is an emergent capacity of the evolution of organisms at all, so we can't possibly know whether it is bound to emerge from the evolution of other physical systems.

Equivalently, then, that successor presiding occasion prehends the mentality of its predecessor (s) in the dominant subsociety, not directly through spatial contiguity, but through the patterns of activity already present both in the brain as its immediate environment and in the entire organism as its overall field of activity.

Wolf likewise notes that the electromagnetic field which is the brain seems to be part of a still greater field of activity which is the total physical organism:

But it is the organism itself as a unified field of activity which thereby continues to exist and undergo various changes.

To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.

If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of holiness of life.

Organisms are interactive and are centers of creative activity.

Recombinant DNA research has been done primarily on bacteria, one - celled organisms smaller than animal or plant cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.

Thus we must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the later states of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade.

It also requires an underlying activity — expressing itself in individual embodiments, and evolving in achievements of organism.

The point of central importance in these developments for a philosophy of man is that man - made physical mechanisms are no longer limited to rigid patterns of mechanical action, but are now admitted to the domain of sensitive response, memory, and even of decision - making — activities that traditionally have been thought the exclusive province of minded organisms.

Whitehead's notion that «the emergence of organisms depends on a selective activity which is akin to purpose» accounts for this neglected side of evolution (SMW 107).

The range of possible activity is determined by the complexity of the nervous system, both on a sensory as well as a motor level (MM 41)-- sensory in that with a system of low complexity, an organism is simply not aware of the vast variety of movements in the material field, motor in that the variety of responses necessary for free activity are not materially accessible (MM 19, 43).

With Leibniz, Hartshorne maintains that some organisms are governed by a «dominant entelechy» that serves as a center of perception and activity (Monadology # 70); other organisms, and all inorganic wholes (e.g. chemical compounds and minerals), have insufficient organizational complexity to act or feel «as one.

Heretofore, this earth has witnessed the emergence of single - celled living organisms, the growth of multicelled plant organisms, the advent of animals with centralized nervous systems making self - directed activity possible, and the flowering of humanity with its far - flung culture.

Every organism, in its activity, its potential, its joy - seeking and its limitations, its life and death - indeed every thinkable system or sub-unit of matter, every «thing» - is defined and administered from that vast, dynamic Unity.

His goal - seeking, value - producing efforts reflect the goal - seeking, value - producing activities of the cosmos itself and of God, who is both the life of the cosmic organism and its primordial ground.

The adverbial mode of perception must be understood as a response, a response that has some identity or correspondence with the patterned processes playing upon the organism but that, at the same time, is not unambiguously reproductive of these energetic activities.5 Even though some originative activity may occur at this primitive level of physiological responsiveness, it is holistic in nature.

In other words, we might think of this ultimate activity as being, so to speak, potentially dualistic, mysteriously capable of expressing itself in ever - enlarging personal as well as impersonal ways, environments and organisms.

We must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the latter stages of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade (PR 261).

But in any case, it is clear that Whitehead means that there are various levels of «organisms of organisms,» or hierarchical societies, which are to be contrasted with those types of societies which do not have a hierarchical order and hence no overall unity of activity.

Every organism is a harmony of parts and activities.

Transcendence is a tricky notion, however, and requires qualification, for the world is also partly at the mercy of its representing creatures whose activities, at least in the case of «higher» organisms, can have an integrative or a disintegrative effect.

But now we look on a physical object, not as a continuous corporeal reality only relatively at rest, but as a violent activity of infinitesimal organisms.

«In this figure a, b, c stand for three organisms, or rather for the total waves of psycho - physical activity of three organisms, whilst A B represents the threshold.

Whitehead takes the notion of «organism» as the most profitable one for designating the natural units, but, by making macro-organisms societies of micro-organisms and giving directed activity only to these, he loses the distinctive unity of macro-organisms.

But an organism is not only a route of rhythmic reiterative activity.

They exist in a complex harmony of organism, surroundings, illumination, and, above all, the activity of exploring the environment.

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

A living soil is central to soil fertility because it is the activity of soil organisms that makes available the elements in plant residues and organic debris entering the soil.

From this perspective we can see why Aristotle accepted spontaneous generation without anxiety: putrefying matter, already seething with change, could accidentally fall into self - perpetuating patterns of activity and thus spin off organisms — maggots in corpses or oysters in mud.

Circadian clocks help organisms synchronize their biological activities to the time of day.

Living organisms also are thought to require a degree of biochemical autonomy, carrying on the metabolic activities that produce the molecules and energy needed to sustain the organism.

Some supporters of alternative life suggest looking for signs of metabolic activity in varnishes, which could be detected by watching for the flow of radioactive tracers through any hidden organisms.

Organisms ranging from bacteria to humans have circadian clocks to help them synchronize their biological activities to the time of day.

By tracking activity in almost all the genes of a free - living archaeon — which, like a bacterium, is a prokaryote — Bonneau was recently able to piece together how the genes affected one another's expression, enabling him to map the organism's «control circuit» as if it were a machine.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

These include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and foods grown with pesticides, the use of animals in research, whether climate change is mostly due to human activity, and whether humans have evolved over time.

The presence of methane on Mars, first discovered a few years ago, has piqued the curiosity of researchers, who wonder if the gas results from geologic activity or, more intriguingly, from living organisms, as is largely the case on Earth.

The most salt - tolerant organism known on Earth is a fungus that can survive down to a water activity of 0.61.

Not only is RNAi used to regulate gene expression within an organism, it also can combat viral infection by silencing the activity of viral genes required for the pathogen's replication.

«Never before has this level of biological activity been observed within a single group of organisms,» Fenical says.

This activity is very important in plants, fungi, and bacteria, because ammonium serves as the key source of nitrogen in these organisms.