The best human vision is about 20/10 Vision, twice as good as 20/20 Vision, and that is what corresponds to the true acuity of the Retina.
Not exact matches
As of last year, Google's Cloud
Vision AI was as
good as or
better than a
human at recognizing the contents of images (so was Microsoft's AI for that matter).
Meanwhile, other researchers are using the device to enhance
vision for those with poor eyesight and even the near - blind, to understand how
humans handle heavy workloads and multitasking — and, perhaps, most intriguingly, to
better engage autistic individuals with the world around them.
rather than seeing these as an imposed set of rules, we can see these as a benediction, empowering us to be
better... a bit like
visions, rules can make failures of us, where as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more
human.
They form the ideology of a new religion, and make up a relatively complete and internally, consistent explanation of humanity, the world, and
human destiny, asserting that this
vision is true and others are, at
best, less true.
These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a
vision of the
good life, a life of responsible citizenship and
human decency» (ICC 6).
«The Christian
vision of the
human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as
well as a body is of central importance.
The eschatological
vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and
better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of
human effort, has come to be regarded as illusion.
What America needs is not therapy for a poor white version of Psychological Man but a renewed
vision of the common
good built on a renewed understanding of a common
human nature.
[9] The Church's social
vision, built on principles of justice, peace, freedom and solidarity, [10] presents, this writer would submit, values which serve much
better if we want to uphold the dignity of the
human person.
Religion and myth should be its handmaids, opening the individual to the mysterious depths of
human existence, as
well as providing our culture with a shared
vision of those things unseen which Davies believes are what largely govern us.
Wieman became increasingly hostile toward religious
visions which set the source of
human good in a transcendent reality.
Teilhard's importance, Berry believes, lies in his comprehensive
vision of the universe as a psychic - spiritual as
well as a physical - material process, his perception of the
human as the consciousness of the universe, and his shifting of the focus of Western religious concern from redemption to creation.
But in a secular age in which
visions of
human flourishing are no longer limited to religious belief, other practices — even those that are seemingly private but ultimately public — compete with those of worship in shaping the desires we follow in pursuit of the
good.
I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's
vision of
human life in relation to God, and I think there are very few indeed who have managed as
well as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created life, and a sense of the pain and anguish that come when that life is fully redirected to the One from whom it comes.
The biblical understanding of nature, therefore, inheres in a
human ethical
vision, a
vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the
human historical drama of
good and evil.
It is to manifest to
human beings the great love of God, poured out for us in the passion of the Christ, so that we will be led to love God in return and not take God's love for granted.50 Jesus tells her in her
visions, «I shall make all things
well... All shall be
well.»
The biblical understanding of nature inheres in a
human ethical
vision, a
vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the
human historical drama of
good and evil.
So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see
visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as
well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the
human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as
well?
The
good life that religions propose is the measure for that assessment and the
vision of transformation that can direct globalisation towards the common
good that develops towards
human flourishing.
The religious understanding of the conflict between
good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the
human heart to the love of God and its demands, the
vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.
Such a
vision, I believe, can grow from the thrust of the
human spirit, the quest of life itself, pushing its way to the surface in dreams and hopes of a
better world, a world that is not yet but which might be.
Rowling's moral
vision of our common humanity, like her narrative style, is in some distinctive ways premodern: she has an honest, confident optimism that
human beings are equipped to recognize, to desire and to choose the
good.
There is no one «common
good» for all
humans; there are only the many different cultural
visions of
human fulfillment.
The prophetic personalities in
human history who have been gifted with dreams of a
better society have usually regarded these
visions as revelations of the righteousness of God.
Is this «
vision» of how - it - is the
best way to talk about and understand the
human predicament?
According to Nussbaum, Nehru may have been
good at building formal institutions, but it was Gandhi who gave a spiritual and philosophical basis to democracy in India by calling «all Indians to a higher
vision of themselves, getting people to perceive the dignity of each
human being.»
My own preference, however, is to preserve the hierarchy of «psychic» functions, but within a theological
vision of the
human like that of Maximus the Confessor, perhaps somewhat «updated» (taking into account, I mean, the hierarchy's «horizontal» axis — its evolutionary history — as
well).
It seems to me that
vision caters to the pastor's ego and makes all of his «followers» regress to being «functionaries» for the «mission» or «goal» or «
vision» rather than helping them grow into virtue, and community, and humanity (the
good part of our
human - ness, you know, the unique individuals that God specifically designed?).
It seems to me that
vision caters to the pastorâ $ ™ s ego and makes all of his â $ ˜followersâ $ ™ regress to being â $ ˜functionariesâ $ ™ for the â $ ˜missionâ $ ™ or â $ ˜goalâ $ ™ or â $ ˜visionâ $ ™ rather than helping them grow into virtue, and community, and humanity (the
good part of our
human - ness, you know, the unique individuals that God specifically designed?).
That is, it must involve study of the dominant images, symbols, and stories by which the congregation's host society tells itself who and what it is, what its
vision of the «
good» or «fulfilled»
human life is, what its central values are.
This hierarchical
vision relegated the nonhuman to the bottom of the organizational pyramid: it was the «stuff» which
humans employed in their pursuit of the common,
human good.
Might not a sacramentalist model, one which subordinates
human time to God's grand evolutionary scheme
best generate the numinous
vision and moral courage needed to surmount the conflicts between humankind's wellbeing and the wellbeing of the cosmos?
The result is an expanded
vision of the common
good which both respects
humans» differences from other creatures and forbids
humans to «pull rank» over them.
On the other hand,
human beings are inherently unable to shape their lives and societies according to religious and philosophical
visions of what is just and
good.
With a shared
vision of how organic principles and practices can benefit all of
human society and the planet's diverse ecosystems, IFOAM — Organics International and the International Society of Organic Farming Research (ISOFAR), and their generous supporters, the government of Goesan County, Republic of Korea, held an International Organic Expo from 18 September — 11 October 2015, to imagine and plan the future of the organic sector and its contribution to ecological sustainability and societal
well - being.
While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate
vision: a world that is
better for
humans, animals and the planet.»
But the
best is the enemy of the
good; the most imperfect machine -
vision system currently available would probably do a
better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than
human umpires do.
Breastfeeding improves
vision and oral development; breastfed babies have fewer ear infections; breast milk is
better for the cardiovascular system and kidneys; and babies» intestinal immunity is enhanced by
human milk.
Leave campaigners promoted a
vision of an independent UK playing a leading role in the world, so its important that this leads to
better protection for
human health.
NASA: The news was
good for missions that would support the president's
vision for eventual lunar and martian exploration by
humans.
«If we know the pathways involved, maybe we can reverse this, find
better targets and design
better drugs,» says Dr. Yutao Liu,
vision scientist and
human geneticist in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
Today, their work, which earned them the Nobel Prize, also informs advanced computer science, especially «machine
vision» — research intended to help computers improve their visual processing, an area where they remain
well behind
human capabilities.
Unlike computers,
human brains are
good at tackling tasks that integrate massive amounts of data, like
vision.
In what ways is the Surface Stereo Imager «
better» or different than
human vision?
If the new algorithm does indeed solve a deeper problem in machine
vision, and is indeed as
good as
human vision at solving any CAPTCHA - like problem, then this is breakthrough territory.
Scientists are not sure how the mothers know when to give extra estradiol, but they note that side - blotched lizards have excellent color
vision —
better than
humans — so it is easy for them to tell the color of their lizard neighbors» throats.
The Newcastle University team will now continue the research examining the algorithms used for depth perception in insects to
better understand how
human vision evolved and to develop new ways of adding 3D technology to computers and robots.
«These connections may not have been lost during evolution of
humans and other primates after all,» says Martin, who speculates that primates have the
best of all possible visual worlds: full stereo
vision, and the ability to quickly spot and respond to danger.
«Rat
vision» may give
humans best sight of all.»