A second problem for a realistic substantialism has been that it has difficulty accounting either for human thought or for the relation
between human thought and the material substances.
Indeed, he thought of the latter as engaged in a religious revolt against logic because, according to Nash, Van Till did not believe there was a correspondence
between human thought and divine thought.
Not exact matches
The results of the experiment would suggest that bird flu could potentially mutate to become transmittable
between humans like the flu, a scary
thought considering the
human fatality rate from bird flu when contracted from birds was recorded as 60 percent in 2010.
Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he
thinks there is «some connectivity»
between human activity and global warming, despite previously describing climate change as a hoax.
«Over time I
think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,» said Musk according to a CNBC report, adding that «some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis
between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem.»
The race
between automation and
human work is won by automation, and as long as we need fiat currency to pay the rent / mortgage,
humans will fall out of the system in droves as this shift takes place... The safe zones are services that require local
human effort (gardening, painting, babysitting), distant
human effort (editing, coaching, coordinating), and high - level
thinking / relationship building.
On the most granular level, the stock market is just a medium used for
human beings to trade ownership in companies with one another, and you would
think that interactions
between just two people would have at least some
human element in it.
We may very well begin to see a narrowing gap
between the business experience and the
human experience happen sooner than we
think.
Nick, arrogance in the extreme is claiming to understand God's motives, reasons & justifications or personifying him with
human emotions like jealousy, vanity & vengance...
Between athiests & believers, who do you
think does this?
We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in
human consciousness [
thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict
between people of good will.
They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should
think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make
Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Ea
Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them
human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Ea
human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges
between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?
I noticed you didn't tell Marcel, There is a difference
between humans and all other living creatures on this planet... we
think — in his point.
Process
thought does not make a distinction
between suffering endemic to the entire
human race and suffering which is meted out by one ethnic group to another.
There is a difference
between humans and all other living creatures on this planet... we
think.
If Christians must choose
between thinking clearly and relating rightly to
human suffering, they must choose the latter.
In becoming a model, it has engendered wide - ranging interpretation of the relationship
between God and
human beings; if God is seen as father,
human beings become children, sin can be seen as rebellious behavior, and redemption can be
thought of as restoration to the status of favored offspring.
I believe it is authentically Christian
thinking to single this out for special focus and to imply it in the fresh application of the relations
between God and the world, among
human beings, and
between human beings and other creatures.
This, so it is
thought, will preserve us from Catholic Pelagian or semi-Pelagian leanings in which there is a synergistic cooperation
between the divine and
human wills.
Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't
think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences
between chimpanzees and
humans.
«Speech in its embryonic stages as exemplified in animal and
human behavior,» he says in Modes of
Thought, «varies
between emotional expression and signaling» (MT 52).
We say we know the difference
between questionable
human life and undeniable
human life, while it is evident to all but the willfully blind that lives once
thought to be undeniably
human are now thrown into question.
Hence, a distinction must be made
between cosmology (i.e., the study of material changes) and history proper (i.e., the study of
human thinking).
The split
between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of
thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in
human consciousness.
In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for
human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious
thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a kind of companionship
between our own little life and the greater circumambient divine being.
Myth is not a
human narrative of a one - sided divine manifestation, as Buber once
thought, but a «mythization» of the memory of the meeting
between God and man.
There is even a debate
between those who
think the devotee depends entirely on God's grace, like a kitten picked up by its mother, and those who
think some
human effort is also required like a baby monkey who has to cling on to its mother.
Because of this divergent process of actualization — the material past is dead, the mental past is alive — a distinction must be made
between cosmology or pseudo-history and history proper (i.e., the study of
human thought).
«I
think the Indian personality is a very fine balance
between the aggressive component of
human endeavour and the more feminine, soft and cultured conception which tends to integrate various dimensions rather than push along one dimension.
Perhaps the best description of my reaction is from Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield: «There is no other such gulf in the history of
human thought as that which is cleft
between the apostolic and the immediately succeeding ages.
He provides the balanced picture again
between knower and known, without an a priori, in going on to say: «The key to development is a mind capable of
thinking in technological terms and grasping the fully
human meaning of
human activities, within the context of the holistic meaning of the individual's being.»
It is therefore important to distinguish
between those theologians who are interested in post-modern culture because they want to better understand its effects upon the
human person's openness to evangelisation, and those theologians who
think that Christ should be just another option at the market of meaningful symbols, no more or less significant than Buddha or Krishna.
Speaking to popular culture blog Assignment X, the author said this as he again described the difference
between his work and Tolkien's: «I
think ultimately the battle
between good and evil is weighed within the individual
human heart, not necessarily
between an army of people dressed in white and an army of people dressed in black.
The «fence - sitting» is often just evidence that people are ACTIVELY
thinking about the inherent conflict of the
human experience,
between the
human and the divine, rather than completely committing oneself to an all - encompassing concept beforehand.
«Love» exists and has been studied by scientists, but there is a huge difference
between actually having a relationship with another
human being, or even an animal that you can characterize as «loving» and
thinking there is some all - powerful unseen being out there that loves you.
That
thought was essentially moral, grounded in a thick understanding of the relationship
between human nature, tradition, and transcendent being.
The fact that a crucial discontinuity exists
between the purely animated envelope of the Earth and its
thinking envelope (i.e.
between the Biosphere and the Noosphere), which is manifest in the fundamentally different proceedings of Life on either side of this gap
between the two layers, naturally does not mean that the
Human sprang into existence among the Living in an immediate state of completeness.
While Paul's
thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by
human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish
between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be
thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.
But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate
between these two schools of
thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of
human nature.
Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary
between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of
thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the
human spirit.
Consider this one: Christians might
think that the dynamics of grace and faith in
human salvation could only be worked out in Christianity — until they learn, for example, about the intricate, debates
between the «cat doctrine» and the «monkey doctrine» in Bhakti Hinduism.
The link
between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western
thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able - bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature, mind - body,
human - nonhuman.
Such initiatives transcend the divide that has existed since the «60s
between human service advocates who focus on people, and community development professionals who
think about neighborhoods.
It's a neat way to
think about it, and also points to a collective - personality with a memory and an interaction that takes place
between individuals, almost a meta - observation on what it means to be
human, if you will.
Think about this: what is one of the main differences
between humans and animals?
In political and social
thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction
between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of
human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in
human individuals and institutions.
But he
thinks that the Christian and the philosophical understanding of
human life are so close to one another in their conception of sin that he refuses to distinguish
between them at this point.
Since I really can't see much difference
between any other god and God, including his tendency to have very
human emotions, I'm inclined to
think that even he is an invented deity.
Well, I guess leaving out soul from an (artificial) system, the main things which would seem that are different (aside from biochemical construction)
between humans and computers are feelings and emotions, and
thought, or consciousness.
The heart of the problem, I
think, lies in grounding the possibility of trust
between human beings over chasms
between cultures and divergent interests.
I hope most of you realize that their is very little difference
between Muslim's who believe in 89 Virgins and Christians who
think humans can walk on water and Mormons who toss water on dead people...