Sentences with phrase «capacity for novelty»

For an increased capacity for novelty, adventure, sensitivity, receptivity, responsiveness, creativity to develop and flower, the environment with which the organism interacts, of which it is a part, needs to be conducive for the emergence of these characteristics and virtues.

Most actualities, most organisms, do not have a great capacity for novelty and consequently, for the most part, repeat the past.

Nevertheless, process thinkers in general propose that anything actual at all — subatomic events, amoebic experience, human experience — has some capacity for novelty, at no matter how rudimentary, even negligible a level.

Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord with the divine call than those of more complex creatures; the greater the degree of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.

Not exact matches

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God does not become more divine, of course; but God has other and more varied opportunity to adapt the divine Loving to the creatures, so that in any and every circumstance there is the renewed possibility of novelty, with the emergence of a greater capacity to act instrumentally for God's intentions in the world.

Novelty has observable effects in the brain: it increases the brain's plasticity or capacity for learning and also increases levels of dopamine, the motivation chemical.