Sentences with phrase «basis of consciousness»

I'm into inner development, the development of the body, the feeling and the intellect, on the basis of consciousness.

MOST SCHOLARS concerned with the material basis of consciousness are cortical chauvinists.

The import of optogenetics for consciousness is that it allows testing of a specific hypothesis about the neural basis of consciousness.

Although the physical basis of consciousness is one of the deepest enigmas in biology, the best guess is that it arises from coordinated activity between the cortex and the thalamus, a switching station for sensory and motor signals, and within the cortex, which handles higher - order cognitive functions.

But time brings change, and next week my foundation is hosting a symposium in Southern California where the gap between science and spirituality will be narrow somewhat, not on the basis of religion but on the basis of consciousness.

Fighting his own buoyancy, Brown employs a method which proceeds without the help of its strongest allies: the irrational basis of consciousness and the metaphorical basis of language.

Whereas Aristotle, as we have seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.

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Based on his own supposed experiences with enlightenment, Burke makes the case for a higher form of consciousness than the normal person possesses.

Nintendo's new quality of life - improving «platform» will be developed alongside the company's plans to expand its user base and promote overall health - consciousness.

After years of development and flickering just outside of mainstream consciousness and acceptance, record high prices for the most popular blockchain - based cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and newcomer Ethereum and an embrace of the technology's core principles by some of the world's largest institutions may mean that blockchain technology is ready for its close up.

But fortunately, Aaron Weiss» frenetic yelps and stream - of - consciousness lyrics (many of them based on the writings of a Sufi mystic) mixed with the overall intensity of the band make the sound more than fitting for mewithoutYou.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

Yet Bultmann still remains reluctant to interpret Jesus» present as based upon historical encounter: «This judgement of his about his present comes from his own consciousness of vocation; thus he creates it out of himself; and it is not, as was later the case in his Church, based upon looking back upon an event decisive for him.

The intuitional evidence for belief in Allah, the belief based upon the recognition of Allah by our inner consciousness, is brought to our attention in the Qur» an by pointing out the important psychological fact that there is an instinctive feeling of faith in Almighty Allah, the Creator of the universe, which comes to men when they are free from inclinations, or the distractions of dull routines, or when surprised by the question of the origin of the universe, or when faced with hardships or misfortunes which they can not overcome by themselves.

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

Founded in 1925 by K. B. Hedgewar and consolidated later by M. S. Golwalkar, the RSS has promoted Hindu interests and sought to forge a «national consciousness» on the basis of Hindutva.

Much of this section is based on research on religious consciousness among young people in the San Francisco Bay area conducted by a research group under the direction of Charles Glock and myself between 1971 and 1974.

I contend that these general phenomenological considerations are at the basis of the monadic theories of consciousness and reality that are found in the participants in the present analysis.

In this way Whiteheadian metaphysics represents a more adequate solution to the problems of meaning and consciousness, while at the same time providing a strong philosophical basis for the realism and causalism of science.

Education based upon religious convictions is accused of everything from dividing society into warring camps to indoctrinating children in a way that prevents them from achieving autonomy and critical consciousness.

If the apparent togetherness in experience of both clear and dim consciousness, or of hearing and seeing, is declared unreal, as in this alternative, then no basis remains for any doctrine of togetherness whatever.

In a time of a global transformation of consciousness, the church needs to engage the world based on its radical roots in God's revelation, but informed by current views of the nature of reality.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

The fact that chimps reared in isolation seemed incapable of self - recognition indicates that it is social experience rather than language which is one basis of public self - consciousness (SRCM 118).

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in...

In Chapter Two, we considered the nature of consciousness in order to gain the basis for an understanding of the major stages of human development.

Extrasensory communications of various kinds occasionally enter consciousness to disturb our rationalistic systems based on the supposed primacy of sensory experience.

The primary way the Scriptures describe this is through the language and imagery of resurrection, which in turn is based on the experience of waking from sleep or coming to consciousness from an unconscious state.

Habitual patterns of response, such as getting dressed, riding a bicycle, using a typewriter, so painfully and self - consciously learned at the time, become quite unconscious.37 A centralized nervous system or its close analogue may be the necessary basis for consciousness, but consciousness itself is the inner concomitant of the presence of some novelty which has not yet faded into the background through incessant repetition.

With self - consciousness comes in - creased responsibility for the quality of relationships, and hence the basis for the spirituality of which Schleiermacher speaks.

Within human consciousness there is always a sense of the goodness of one's own existence (pace original sin) which is the basis of the sense of what rightly belongs to us, what makes us truly happy, what brings our existence to joyful fulfilment.

Is it not one of the solid facts on which our consciousness is based?

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

But, although some of the specific experiences, such as pains, may be (at least virtually) determined by the brain (at least in what we usually consider «normal,» as distinct from «altered,» states of consciousness), others, such as thoughts and decisions, are not, but are based upon the mind's self - determination.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

The power of storytelling as a political act becomes obvious in Christian base communities: it awakens consciousness as it spins its verbal magic.

The first threat, that from naturalism, directly challenges the presuppositions upon which science as we know it was originally based — presuppositions which, though undoubtedly absent from the consciousness of many contemporary scientists, were quite clearly on the minds of those who pioneered modern science.

First, we see that he is desperately concerned to avoid drifting into an immanentist philosophy of consciousness, and striving at all costs to preserve the historical basis of the kerygma.

But this was based on the particular, not the general, and consciousness of this drove James always, in effect, to say, «If another cosmology works better for you, then you treat that as true instead.»

Having quoted the invariably profound, long - term Sunday Times journalist, Bryan Appleyard, to the effect that «matter evolved in an elaborate, finely tuned conspiracy to produce air - breathing, carbon based life forms possessed of self - consciousness» he goes on to state that «Living matter, or living beings, are purpose driven».

That is why I have to advert to it now, although it is naturally impossible for me in this place to give you any account of the evidence on which the admission of such a consciousness is based.

Qualia constitute the central challenge for any philosopher who wants to provide a fully naturalistic account of consciousness based on the neurochemistry of the brain.

That it is such a responsible and illuminating study is due largely to Morrissey's solid understanding that it is Voegelin's theory of consciousness, presented and assessed here in detail in its development and refinement, that provides the key to appreciating the theological dimension of Voegelin's philosophy and the basis for working out what Morrissey calls «the principles of a Voegelinian theology.»

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.

Hence, the Hartshornian metaphysical edifice is based upon the bedrock of the fleeting human consciousness as the foundation and model of metaphysical knowledge.

Degradation of consciousness takes place when the mind gets taken over by the elements that we make based on our reasoning.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

I personally think Jesus greatest teaching were based on the fact that the Jewish faith became so perverted through traditions for atonement instead of consciousness about the actions through God's eyes.