Sentences with phrase «animal experience as»

As an undergrad, she gained animal experience as a sales associate at a Petco retail store and as a veterinary assistant at Black Veterinary Hospital.

Not exact matches

Your list of credentials should probably include personal pet ownership — if not currently, at least in the past — as well as other pet - related experience, including working at a pet food store, an animal hospital or other animal - related business.

«A customer tried to bring a baby kangaroo on the plane as a service animal,» a retired airline customer service agent with 18 years of experience told Business Insider.

Animals are thus experiencing the same health problems as people, particularly when it comes to nutrition.

In fact, you can give these donations as gifts (many of them come with an «experience» such as a safari when you donate to a local exotic animal zoo) and get good karma points, a tax write - off, and a genuine thank you to boot.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

We do not simply create the nonhuman realities — plants, animals, and inorganic materials — that we interpret; rather we experience these realities as given to us for interpretation, and in their givenness values are disclosed.

Although Whitehead's Category of the Ultimate is meant to lessen the distance, so to speak, between actual occasions and societies of actual occasions, the application of Whitehead's metaphysics to persons seems troublesome; the ancient metaphysical problem of appearance and reality seems to lurk in the background, for the philosopher who wishes to identify res vera in the system soon finds herself perplexed, asking if the subjects of experience are actual occasions, societies of occasions, or sentient beings, such as persons and animals.1

I mean to assert that my conscious experience, the experience constitutive of me as a conscious ego, is the experience of the actual entities constitutive of the personally ordered regnant society which dominates my brain and my whole animal organism.

The data of experience — rocks, trees, animals, people, etc. — are part of the world, and yet they are part of the self as well.

Two of the specific experiences which Buber mentions in the essay on Boehme — that of kinship with a tree and that of looking into the eyes of a dumb animal — are later used in I and Thou as an example not of unity but of the I - Thou relation.

The objects of our ordinary experience, things such as rocks, trees, animals and persons are composites or groupings of what we have been calling occasions of experience.

Our developed consciousness fastens on the sensum as datum: our basic animal experience entertains it as a type of subjective feeling.

Burton, an experienced ethologist, states that animals are capable of compassion, pity, sympathy, affection and grief, as well as true altruism (JLA 91).

This capacity to learn from experience in man, as in other animals, is primarily bound up with the interpretation of signals and with the ability to bring past experience to bear on present interpretation.

Also in the case of animals, it is often best to speak of dominant occasions of experience to refer to that entity which in man is organized as soul.

In primitive man, however, this individuality was located in the unconscious, and although it must be emphasized when we compare human experience with that of animals, it was not what we think of as individuality today.

The evolutionary sequence from protons, molecules, cells, plants and animals to people would be interpreted as an increase in complexity of experience and degree of self - determination.

In that context there can be no interest in plants and animals except as they are given being in human experience.

One may then generalize this intuition and, employing the criterion of «active singularity,» further argue by analogy that whatever is experienced to act as one must also feel as one, whether this be an animal or a cell, a molecule or an atom (1970a, 36, 143f.

There is every reason to suppose that the higher animals have similar immediate enjoyment of themselves as centers of experience.

This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.

That an animal body is first and foremost a society (as Whitehead reminds us) is a useful indicator that every rationalization of experience depends at bottom on a more or less happy conjunction of «naturing» and «culturing.»

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

But as the brain becomes more complex we may surmise that the animal has experiences that go beyond the mere service of the body.

This hardening occurs to the extent that particular gaps, such as that between self - conscious human experience and that of animals, is asserted to be fundamentally different from all the other gaps to be found in reality.

A business of animals, as you say, but we human animals also have been gifted with spiritual natures, which adds a completely different quality to that experience.

But at the same time, rightly enough, it would be insisted that Whitehead's immediate experience can not be conflated with Bradley's; for in Whitehead, immediate experience operates as foundational only within the limited area of animal or human cognition and can not, as in Bradley's idealist metaphysic, be identified with the substratum itself.

Here, kids ages three to twelve can enjoy crafts and activities that immerse them in the Southwestern experience, such as making Indian headbands and pinch pots; hearing tales told by cowboy storytellers; learning about local culture, geography and indigenous plants and animals; or splashing around in the Water Playground.

Mr Joyce has previously described ESCAS as making Australia «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals» due to statistics that showed from a performance report that 8,035,633 livestock were exported with just 12,958 animals — or 0.16 pc — experiencing a potentially adverse animal welfare outcome.

Beyond Meat wanted to keep the whole experience of cooking burger as similar as possible for our flexitarian fans, so they've worked very hard to create a burger that changes color as you cook it just like animal protein.

Mr. Ritter brings over twenty years of sales management experience in the food and animal nutrition industry to the marketing team at RBT including his service as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SunOpta Ingredients, a manufacturer of fibers, brans and specialty food ingredients based in Minnesota.

The wonder they experience is amazing, as they learn about plants and animals and insects and weather and seasons.

The animals featured will represent some of the animals that are likely to experience an increase or decrease in population as a result of climate change.

I love how the kids receive more then just candy, such as coupons, and how it can become a learning experience by viewing the animals and seeing some different, kid - friendly characters!

Campers ages 4 — 18 experience life on a working farm and wildlife sanctuary as they care for farm animals, practice sustainable farming, discover the science behind nature, and observe native wildlife.

Campers will use the indoor and outdoor grounds of the Museum as their classroom to foster critical thinking, social - emotional skills, and science practices through hands - on experiences with museum collections, exhibits, and live animal critter connections.

From personal experience I know that listening to the plays that come out of my three year old's bedroom as she plays with the different stuffed animals, can be better than listening to the TV.

Campers experience life on a working farm and wildlife sanctuary as they care for farm animals, practice sustainable farming, discover the science behind nature, and observe native wildlife.

As one of few U.S. aquariums experienced in nurturing and rehabilitating stranded and orphaned sea otters, the week is an annual opportunity to highlight the importance of the efforts of Shedd animal care staff since its rescue program began over five decades ago.

These mighty, silent animals have a powerful elegance not experienced by most and are as misunderstood as their great white cousins.

When an animal experiences harm to help a relative, evolutionary biologists view this as increasing the chances that copies of the animal's genes will survive.

As the animals learned, the researchers recorded electrical signals from individual neurons in the amygdala, a brain structure that forms memories of fearful experiences.

Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

Although the era Secord and his colleagues studied experienced a similar increase in temperatures (five degrees Celsius or more) as is predicted for us for the near future (four degrees C), he points out the ancient animals had tens of thousands of years to adapt to changing temperatures — rather than just centuries.

Subsequent studies have demonstrated that as the animals become addicted to the drug, the positive consequences get reduced and negative effects get exaggerated so the net experience is less positive.

«It would also be great to apply this type of experiment to other questions, such as how different environments affect the amount of predation that prey animals experience.»

«Purposeful modification of objects by animals for use as tools, without extensive prior experience, is almost unknown,» the team writes, noting that even our primate kin often fail to show such talent in the absence of explicit coaching.