Sentences with phrase «conscious experience of the world»

As such, executive function is integral to our conscious experience of the world as prior knowledge is integrated into the current «state of play» to make predictions about likely future events.

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What she really should have told Oprah: As an atheist I have far more appreciation and awe of the world and beauty around us, because I can understand the immeasurable number of years to bring us to this moment and the rare privilege of being a conscious being at this moment to experience it.

The result is basically a «convertive piety» with its call to self conscious conversion, the experience of the «new birth,» and a life of «holiness» that is demonstrably and empirically distinct from the rest of the world in its expression of «actual righteousness.»

By this distinction of two modes of passivity — of receiving forms - Aristotle sets off the world of conscious experience from the world of nature, but in such a way that not only the objects but the very workings of nature are included as part of what is felt.

And this precisely is the facet of the object that extends beyond conscious experience, for it is doubtless true of any arising entity that it must take, and perhaps even take in, the world as it finds it.

But this much is clear: those factors found on the most basic level of conscious experience are precisely those that he attributes to the world at large.

It pertains to our own conscious experience both of the external world and our own inner feelings, and by extension to the conscious experience of others.

Suppose, then, that we begin our description of the natural world by making explicit what it means to be an experiencing, conscious subject.

May I emphasize the fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as aesthetic, ethical, religious experiences, intuition, inspiration, states of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.

For him the object of conscious experience — and he knew of no other kind of experience — was primordially the sensuously given world.

For Piaget, the ontological egocentricity of the child was due primarily to the fact that the child does not yet differentiate its selfhood from the Being of the universe (RME 110, 241); therefore, the child is not yet conscious of itself as being other over against the world and, therefore, interprets the whole reality according to its own experience.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

If one accepts this doctrine, one can account for the highly complex conscious experiences of human beings in a fully non-reductionistic way, while at the same locating human beings fully in the context of the natural world.

It is the appearance of the actual world produced by our sensory and conscious experience.

The reconstruction of the context which is screened out in conscious experience, the interpretation of the world in terms of unity, the attention paid to the coherence and solidarity of the world (cf. PR 7/10, 11/17, 15f.

Besides this, the preservation of the world in God can hardly be conceived within the scope of Suchocki's interpretation, 45 and she explicitly bars any possibility that such a preserved world could influence worldly entities: «I experience God only in terms of his primordial satisfaction, not in terms of his consequent experience, and hence not in terms of my past self as conscious in God» (WR 9).

As Robert Law puts it: «Gnosticism traces into the eternal the schism of which we are conscious in the world of experience, and posits two independent arid antagonistic principles of existence from which, severally, come all the good and all the evil that exist.»

From the Bergsonian perspective, Whitehead's claim that according to his «account of the World of Activity there is no need to postulate two essentially different types of Active Entities... the purely material and [those] alive with various modes of experiencing,» would entail the conclusion that the notion of «the activity of mere matter» devoid of a «conscious confrontation of memory with possibility» is an abstract limit concept.

She has 20 years of experience working with kids and exploring the world of conscious parenting.

Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and other means of perceiving the world, Koch said it would experience something different than what people and other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it conscious of?»

Understanding the brain's connections would begin to teach us how its flashes of electricity add up to a fully conscious experience, one in which our senses, intuition, reasoning and memory interact to give a coherent view of the world.

In an increasingly virtual, convenience - driven, safety - conscious and arguably desinsidtised world, people will alway search for authentic, intense and meaningful experiences - the dominance of fast food doesn't diminish the number of people who care about their cooking and eating experience, the ányplace, anywhere» availability of digital music streams and downloads has made vinyl record sales thrive and the likes of Singer, Eagle E-types, Morgan are making hay from established OEMs not being able or willing to deliver the full flavour experience (except for a tiny number of limited edition Porsches that no one can buy at list price anyway and get sold at inflated collector prices as a result.

The theorist claimed that artistic experience can change us into more aware and self - conscious human beings, and inform new ways of being in the world.

His work is concerned with the idea of «re-imagining the experience of movement», making a conscious effort to actively participate in the world through art.

«A Mirror Painting is a means to orientation in the world, of encouraging conscious experience of phenomena as experienced from the first person point of view,...

Only by doing so can these experiences by assimilated into conscious awareness, into what the child already knows of the world.