Sentences with phrase «characteristic of the human mind»

This has led cognitive scientists to claim that using spatial concepts to talk and think about time is a universal characteristic of the human mind.

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That is, a human mind is a society of serially ordered actual entities that inherit a defining characteristic (Process 34).

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

The first is human dignity, which is characteristic of our status in between God and beasts: «Not simply body, but also not simply mind or spirit; rather, the place where body and spirit meet and are united (and reconciled?)

Also that when Jesus said to call no man Father it was because he knew we'd mess it up with our human concept of hierarchy — and, in our minds, impose harsh, top - down characteristics on God based on those exhibited by human fathers.

The three characteristics which make the human individual a truly unique object in the eyes of Science, once we have made up our minds to regard Man not merely as a chance arrival but as an integral element of the physical world, are as follows:

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

The processes leading to that flash of insight can illuminate many of the human mind's curious characteristics.

The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers call «cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I call our «inconvenient mind.»

Chapters include: The Nature of Human Emotional Suffering; Actions that Facilitate Emotional Healing; Characteristics of Mental Health; The Mind and the Brain: A Neurobiological Perspective; Targeting Specific Problems; and The Role of Psychotropic Medications.