Sentences with phrase «biological organism»

Like a biological organism, Altmejd's sculptures are always in a state of becoming.

«The human being is often considered an assembly of parts and elements that can be cut and pasted, rather than a biological organism and a person of spiritual worth,» explains a council publication.

The phrase is a fine combination of old - fashioned sexism and convenient biology - speak which, by reducing human individuals to a biological organism, «man», sweeps away social complexities and confines debate to the simplicities of what we often call «nature».

A biological organism is a whole for Bergson; yet he points out that each cell is itself an organism (CE 41 - 42, 162) hence an organism is a whole comprised of real parts.

Decision - points of the same sort arise repeatedly in the natural development of the embryo of every biological organism.

These writings in logical and psychological theory, concerned with the methodology of inquiry generally, contended that mental processes are functions of the biological organism in its adaptation to, response to, and control of the environing situation.

Intrinsically new coherences arise from chaotic antecedents at many levels in the course of the development of every biological organism, and ecological community.

In both cases a not yet human biological organism develops towards a condition in which the coming into existence of a spiritual soul has its sufficient biological substratum.

The fourth distinctive characteristic is a biological organism that can not survive unless sustained by the resources of a complex culture, therefore an organism that has evolved not like other organisms by eliminating the unfit in the struggle with the physical environment, but by eliminating those organisms unfit to absorb and sustain the complexities of a culture progressively accumulated through the sequence of many generations.

2 This seems more adequate and convincing than Whitehead's theory of a biological organism's being a society of epochal subjects, where ongoing integrity, physical or personal, is the task of many actualities, not of an enduring, self - constituting subject.

First of all is the biological organism with its big brain, its upright posture, its hand and opposed thumb, its vocal organs making possible enormous variety in vocalization so that language and other symbols can develop to expand indefinitely the range of meaning, entering into human life.

Not only must one view the individual patient as an operating biological organism, one must also seek to understand both the environing medium for that person, which includes all other persons with whom functional activity occurs, and the specific culture that to a large extent shapes the perceptual patterns by which that individual experiences the world.

At the outset he made it clear that he rejected the whole idea of a cosmic consciousness, «since all the galactic systems, with their exploding stars and vast lifeless spaces in between, give no evidence of being organized like a biological organism fit to embody a conscious mind...» (40).

Like a biological organism, every product is made up of materials and the properties of those materials, in large part, determine how the product functions and performs.

Biological organisms attempt to fight the chaos of the physical world by organizing themselves into cells and more complex organisms.

Bigfoot or aliens... those are different because the people seeking those aren't seeking anything supernatural, they're seeking something essentially mundane (biological organisms that haven't been disocvered yet).

We are not mere biological organisms acting by instinct or reflexes; we are free within limits to direct our destinies by ideals and goals.

His evolution involved the subjective side of life as well as the objective; that is, negatively, we are not to think of great inexplicable gaps in the forms of subjective existence any more than in the forms of biological organisms.

Whitehead makes a point of taking a concept from biology to understand physics instead of interpreting biological organisms from models developed in physics.

Since he generalizes from biological organisms to physical ones, the question is which features does he generalize, in the Lowell Lectures, to all occasions.

See my «Whitehead and Jonas: On Biological Organisms and Real Individuals,» Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics (a Festschrift for Hans Jonas), Stuart F. Spicker, editor; Philosophy and Medicine, Volume 7 (Dordrect and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978).

As Provine summarized the matter, «The destructive implications of evolutionary biology extend far beyond the assumptions of organized religion to a much deeper and more pervasive belief, held by the vast majority of people, that non-mechanistic organizing designs or forces are somehow responsible for the visible order of the physical universe, biological organisms, and human moral order.»

Relationships are for the benefit of biological organisms.

The best known researchers in the field of proto - biology have focused on the currently prevalent apparatus of biological organization and reproduction — the complex networks of DNA, RNAs, and proteins that constitute present - day biological organisms.

Biological organisms are thoroughly in space.

Turning from the micro to the macro world, biological organisms also exist through reiterating phased processes, notably in the circadian rhythms such as alternating waking and sleeping.

That is, biological organisms had a status no different from any other composite.

On such a theory, therefore, composites of various grades of complexity would have the status of being actual physical existents in their own right, and not as such «reducible» to their ultimate constituents — as in the theory of material atomism, molecules and biological organisms are reducible to the ultimate constituents.

Still higher - level composites constituted of a hierarchy of lower level entities are biological organisms.

However, since biological organisms require more special environments than do physico - chemical organisms, there is no reason for thinking that biological generalizations will come to represent dominant orders of environments as wide as those represented by physical laws.

Stop thinking your religion is a divine gift to mankind - it's just another puppet to the sick will of disturbed biological organisms like you.

It appears that human beings (and, to a lesser extent, other biological organisms) act in a conscious and purposive manner.

The preservation of human life was linked mutually to the presence of other stable forms of biological organisms; this subsists in a homeostatic and well - balanced ecosystem on earth.

This of course allows things to have properties that are nonphysical, perhaps, certain physical aggregates with a high degree of systemic unity and organizational complexity, such as biological organisms and computing machines, may exhibit nonphysical properties.

It deals with self - regulating, self - controlling, and self - correcting processes in machines, biological organisms, and social organizations.

Then this slide set of basic biological organisms would spark her interest.

If our cities do evolve to be more like biological organisms and ecosystems, it could change the way communities form within their walls.

Over the next two centuries, we'll probably convert urban spaces into biological organisms.

I think there are a number of reasons that looking at human beings as biological organisms can be unsettling.

In other words, «biomass» describes the mass of all biological organisms, dead or alive, excluding biological mass that has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.

Colonisation routes, habitat shifts, disruption of populations by volcanism, dispersal by massive landslides, and other relevant aspects for adaptive and non-adaptive radiation, are largely discussed and confronted with previously published data referring to other groups of beetles or to other biological organisms (spiders, bush crickets, plants, etc.).

Other robotics experts agree that it may be necessary to learn from biological organisms in order to make robots smarter and more adaptive.

But when it comes to remotely controlling biological organisms, science has a few tricks up its sleeve, too — although there's nothing metaphysical about them.

The report also pooh - poohs the popular comparison of the growth of cities with biological organisms.

Experiments in three major types of biological organisms — human cells, algae, and fungi — found in each case that levels of magnesium in cells rise and fall in a daily cycle.

As for next steps, Habtour said the intent is to develop the experimental and theoretical principles that govern the interplay between internal interfaces and kinetics of interactions in time - variant systems observed in biological organisms, which ensure their flexible locomotion and resilience.

The potential threat of bioterrorism using human - made biological organisms could be reduced, thanks to a new method developed by scientists.

According to Habtour, current military robots have two major limitations that restrict them from mimicking the locomotion of biological organisms.

Genomic analyses have revealed that free ‐ living biological organisms carry between 107 and 1011 bits of information in their genomes.

The water contains organic molecules and is one of the key components for supporting known biological organisms, Space.com said, and now researchers have purportedly found a second key ingredient: an energy source.