Sentences with phrase «commutating psychophysical»

In a special way, so Christian faith holds, the divine Spirit came to concrete human expression in Jesus, but God needs for his existence no psychophysical organism.

These terms are not identical, but they have in common a reference to the psychic side of our psychophysical nature.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.

If one is a psychophysical identist, that question is unimportant.

Thus we reach the general idea of a God animating psychophysical event - cells.

Then the psychophysical problem of «deciding» is shifted to a combination or interpenetration of physics and religion, both of which may certainly be involved in the whole activity of deciding, but neither of which has much to say as regards its specific activity.

We have it from the sheer immediacy of the evidence, our undeniable personal experience, that some very complex, highly organized natural systems are psychophysical.

In other words, either the abstract notion of «momentary selves» or the more concrete notion of what I have called a series of interrelated psychophysical «event - cells.»

I am highly doubtful that any other occasions in the psychophysical organism enjoy consciousness.

Ontologically speaking, the dominant occasion of experience is not different from the other occasions of experience with which it jointly constitutes the psychophysical animal organism.

This is particularly true with regard to psychophysical parallelism.

Even in the psychophysical organism there are many other processes consisting of such occasions besides the one that constitutes the psyche or human existence.

In Greece, this emerged gradually and fleetingly with only vague recognition of the problems of the relations of the soul to the total psychophysical organism.

Philosophers like Lotze, Rehmke, James, Becher, Popper, and many others, brain physiologists like Adrian, Sherrington and Eccles, and most psychoanalysts suppose that mind and matter are totally different, but that a psychophysical interactionism takes place.

In this paper I will also consider some more recent publications on identism and materialism and mention my objections to psychophysical parallelism and interactionism.

Hence, there is no particular «psychophysical matter» involved in the brain cells and their functions.

As I see it, there exist three possibilities which I should like to call the materialistic, the psychophysical and the spiritual interpretations of existence.

Every monad is a psychophysical whole — in this philosophy.

Clearly a psychophysical organism can not survive the death of the physical organism.

One's theory should have a place for this «commonsense conviction in the reality of psychophysical causation» (SM 105).

would force us to accept a conception of the physical in which to give a causal account of, say, the motion of a physical particle, it is sometimes necessary to go outside the physical system and appeal to some nonphysical agency and invoke some irreducible psychophysical law.

I take this to mean that the whole psychophysical organism is a complex structured society providing a favorable environment for its component societies.1 The question is whether the soul retains social order, and so its dominant defining characteristics, apart from the body.

But, with a rock, all that we seem to have are our human perceptions of it, these perceptions being how the rock influences our psychophysical being under certain conditions.

As Aurobindo became more active in the Indian independence movement, he also had been practicing pranayama (breath control) for up to six hours a day, three hours each morning and evening, but aside from some psychophysical phenomena such as luminous patterns and figures and a great outpouring of poetry, he had no other results (OH 78f.).

A similar separation between professional and client is seen in psychiatrist B. R. Arnowitz's essay called «The Psychodynamics of Abortion» (included in a volume titled Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of A Woman, edited by Joan Offerman - Zuckerberg).

This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive» experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case — experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..

In Anglo - Saxon philosophy a popular alternative to dualism is called psychophysical identism.

Teilhard made it clear, however, that without the presence of another personal being — God — this human perfection would not endure as a utopian realm of freedom but would yield to the psychophysical compression that formed it and disintegrate «in self - disgust.»

(A friend of mine, a first - rate psychologist, who is a subject of graphic automatism, tells me that the appearance of independent actuation in the movements of his arm, when he writes automatically, is so distinct that it obliges him to abandon a psychophysical theory which he had previously believed in, the theory, namely, that we have no feeling of the discharge downwards of our voluntary motor - centres.

It is the single most distinguishing — and indeed formative — psychophysical attribute of the competitive swimmer.

Methods employed in cognitive neuroscience include psychophysical experiments, functional neuroimaging, electrophysiological studies of neural systems and, increasingly, cognitive genomics and behavioral genetics.

Task - related activation and connectivity analysis was performed using SPM8 and context - dependent psychophysical interactions (PPI).

Using data measured in earlier atmospheric optical and psychophysical experiments, here we determine the success rate of this sky - polarimetric Viking navigation.

Psychophysical study of face identity discrimination in schizophrenia: association with facial morphology Ekstrom T, Maher S, Chen Y. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry.

Sex Differences in the Psychophysical Response to Contact Heat in Moderate Cognitive Impairment Alzheimer's Disease: A Cross-Sectional Brief Report.

My research is focused on the pathophysiology of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axon damage in glaucoma and detecting early - stage abnormalities by means of non-invasive imaging, psychophysical testing and electrophysiological measures such as electroretinography (ERG) and visually evoked cortical potentials (VEP).

My training includes a five - year undergraduate degree in animal physiology from one of Germany's leading universities for biology (University of Tübingen, Germany), training in the conduct of human psychophysical experiments and in cognitive neuroscience from one of the world's major centres for cognitive neuroscience (Masters on human face recognition at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under Profs. Nico Troje, Heinrich Bülthoff and Dezsö Varjú) and training in coral reef biology and ecology from the University of Queensland (PhD on visual ecology of reef fish) under Prof. Justin Marshall and Prof. Jack Pettigrew).

It is good for your health, and it improves your psychophysical condition.

This unique musical instrument is designed to promote psychophysical and cognitive development.

Seaside holidays can be an important opportunity to regenerate the body and the psychophysical well - being.

Since 1994 Canali has produced interactive installations capable of sensing and commutating psychophysical parameters into lights, sound, images and video.

The psychophysical response derived from the inherent tensions of the subject matter and its material formulation is uncanny.

These psychophysical distortions are key not only to this exhibition, but also to the artist's practice of late.

Beginning as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor, his motivation grew from an interest in chroma and psychophysical effects of these stimuli acting upon his five known senses.

Latham acquired a spray gun in 1954 from a local ironmonger shop and later that year executed his first piece with the device: a mural in the home of Clive Gregory and Anita Kohsen, two scientists whose concept of «psychophysical cosmology» — a theory that aimed at unifying mind and matter — was to have a profound impact on the artist's own philosophy.

Trained in computational linguistics and fine arts, Hecker's work deals with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electro - acoustic music and psychophysical domains of audition.

I counsel people with anxiety, psychophysical pain, depression, trauma, stress, relationship problems and with loss of meaning or direction.

My research, before I became interested in development, was in perception, information processing, and psychophysical scaling (e.g., Harris & Harris, 1984; Harris, Shaw, & Altom, 1985; Stevens & Harris, 1962).

The Legislature further finds that, since such services assist the public primarily with emotional survival, which in turn affects physical and psychophysical survival, the practice of clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling by persons not qualified to practice such professions presents a danger to public health, safety, and welfare.