Sentences with phrase «conscious human experiences»

In these respects it is like conscious human experiences.

In conscious human experience this becomes a very significant factor, so much so that we hold a human person accountable for the consequences of his acts and do not do the same for microbes.

Now, to speak of conscious human experience in Whiteheadian categories is to speak of a regnant nexus of actual occasions which are enjoying rich supplemental phases.

Just as our conscious human experience unconsciously feels the unconscious feelings of the cells of the brain and achieves a unity of its own life of feeling, so the Totality that is God feels our feelings in the unity of perfect experience.

This hardening occurs to the extent that particular gaps, such as that between self - conscious human experience and that of animals, is asserted to be fundamentally different from all the other gaps to be found in reality.

Not exact matches

Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

I also believe that, in spite of Whitehead's reluctance to concede privileged status to human occasions of experience, the introduction of the wide range of conscious anticipation of the future which humanity represents in comparison to lesser types of existence also introduces justice as a characteristic of the specially human aim at harmonious beauty.

The within of things we experience as humans is richness of conscious experience.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

The theory generalizes the repetition of the past that is evident in conscious, mnemonic occasions of human experience into a feature of all actual occasions, human or nonhuman.

Because of this, and because human experience is so complex, conscious introspection is not the best way to examine experience for its most fundamental elements.

The stream of conscious experience and synthetic activity is the dominant society of actual occasions in human (and animal) bodies, being influenced by subordinate organic processes in those bodies, then influencing them in turn in an ongoing dialectic of causality and creativity.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

The stream of human conscious experience and creative activity (the human mind or soul) has one vitally important property in process thought that it does not have in Cartesian metaphysics: it is spatially (as well as temporally) extended.

It is therefore possible and even probable that they experience sensations and memory, that is to say, conscious phenomena, but surely not in the sense of human experience which is connected with a concept of one's own self.

Basically, his solution takes the form of distinguishing two different levels of human experience, or of more or less conscious thinking about experience, on only the deeper of which is there an experience of God that is both direct and universal.

The former — religious experience — need not be highly articulated nor even highly conscious of God as God; it may be vague, diffused, and unformed, yet also a deliverance of what it feels like to be dependent upon a reality greater than anything human or natural.

We find such centralized control present in our individual human experience, and we have immediate introspective awareness of the conscious experience that functions in this control.

As explained in chapter two, Hartshorne regards human conscious experience as our only reliable key to unlock the mysteries of reality.

Popper indeed believes that the reduction of chemistry to physics, of biology to chemistry, of animal conscious or subconscious experience to biology, and of consciousness itself and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, are all problems the complete success of which seems most unlikely if not impossible.

Thus human conscious experience is our only reliable key to unlock the mysteries of reality.

More specifically, what kind of physiological event does an occasion of human conscious experience become?

The term «conscious superject» can be taken to refer to the physiological correlate of a moment of ordinary human experience, although this does not exhaust its technical meaning.

This experience «can be used to include not only human and amoebic experience, conscious or non-conscious as the case may be, but also non-conscious taking account of the environment which characterizes molecular, atomic and quantum events as well» (LL 131).

Also, what I call «conscious occasions are what Whitehead calls «final percipient occasions of human experience.

In terms of the above discussion of what is truly primary in human experience, we are now in a position to understand a statement in which Whitehead summarizes how the «more concrete fact» from which science abstracts should be conceived: «The emotional appetitive elements in our conscious experience are those which most closely resemble the basic elements of all physical experience» (PR 248).

It is not true that liturgical worship entirely fails to speak to the strictly conscious levels of human experience; it does indeed speak to these, but it has richer connotations and implications; and it is these which do most of the «work» in liturgical as distinguished from didactic or other types of Christian worship.

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.

Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable emotion, and of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure of reality.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

As the level of transcendent meaning attempts to gather our human consciousness into its embrace it becomes enfleshed in forms that are familiar to us in our conscious experience.

To be sure, his panpsychism holds that the ultimate constituent units of all things are atomic; but they are atoms of conscious experience» at least remotely resembling human mental experiences.

It is through symbols, those of art, poetry and especially religion, that the intrinsic value of cosmic reality insinuates itself into the conscious experience of those organisms that we call human beings.

The reduction of chemistry to physics, of biology to chemistry, of animal conscious or subconscious experience to biology, and of consciousness itself and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, are all problems that are unlikely if not impossible to succeed.

Its co-founders, Sean Kelly and Andy Mackensen, attribute this growth not only to HUMAN's successful business model — which has ensured that its operators and locations experience unparalleled success - but also to its conscious culture, which has inspired social entrepreneurs around the world.

«On the contrary, I think that we need to come to terms with fear because the conscious feeling of fear is a key part of human experience and an important factor in psychopathology.

What robots can never have, which humans have, argues Bringsjord, is phenomenological consciousness: «the first - hand experience of conscious thought», as Justin Hart of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, puts it.

«Uncomfortable sight from an ancient reflex of the eye: Reflexive system of the human eye also produces a conscious visual experience that may be related to excessive light sensitivity.»

Being mindful of staying conscious and aware of our senses amplifies our experience as human beings.

We must journal, reflect, and ask ourselves how we can learn from our pleasurable and painful experiences to become more conscious and aware as human beings.

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.