Sentences with phrase «cosmic emergence»

The human race, in other words, is possibly very early in its development and is by no means clearly the climax of cosmic emergence.

Similarly God is not reducible to or explicable in terms of any lower level of cosmic emergence.

And would not the breakdown of any level of cosmic emergence, especially that of human personal interaction, result in the «failure» of the divine to implement its aim?

Conceived of on the model of tenderness rather than coercion, God «dwells in» and «relies upon» the workings of lower dimensions of cosmic emergence in order to realize the divine adventure toward intensity of feeling and enjoyment of beauty.

12 How could a loving God have permitted the monstrosities of Auschwitz, Bangladesh, or Cambodia, the tortures of innocents throughout the ages, and the incredible loss of intense harmonies in the adventure of cosmic emergence?

It offers ever newer and richer «extraneous» ordering principles, but it does not magically manipulate the workings of each successive dimension of cosmic emergence.

And religions, we have to remember, are part of this cosmic emergence.

Nothing would be more out of character with mystery, with nature and its evolution, or with history and selfhood, than a drab homogeneity in any phase of cosmic emergence.

It is also entirely consistent with the patterns we notice in cosmic emergence for us to maintain that the human sphere of mentality is now being invited by the «forces of evolution» to leave itself open to an informing and patterning by a yet higher and more «conscious» level.

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What he explained was not how there is cosmic order, with physical, chemical, astronomical laws; he assumed all that, and then explained how the emergence of living forms, vegetable and animal, could have occurred.

Whitehead anticipates the gradual emergence of a new cosmic epoch in which the physical will play a lesser role and the mental a larger one.

In harmony with the cosmic impulse which leads to the constant disintegration of atoms and the attendant release of energy, Life (though probably localized on a few rare planets) compels us increasingly to view it as an underlying current in the flow of which matter tends to order itself upon itself with the emergence of consciousness.

Finally, in the emergence model God does not sit impassively above the process, untouched and unchanged by the vicissitudes of cosmic history.

The academic suspicion of cosmic teleology that this book has addressed and challenged has given little or no consideration to the possibility that the human level of emergence may itself become a new subsidiary in which a yet higher level (or levels) may take up residence.

Hence the prospect that «cosmic» evolution has not come to an end with the emergence of humans is something we should reflect upon seriously.

Judging the book by its title, I was expecting just another account of the various «coincidences» found in the fundamental laws and constants of the universe, which seem amazingly carefully chosen to allow the emergence of life, and which therefore point to the existence of a Cosmic Designer who brought the world into existence for just that purpose.

What does this atomism signify except that Cosmic Matter, governed at its lower end (as we already know) by forces of dispersal which slowly cause it to dissolve into atoms, now shows itself to be subjected, at the other end, to an extraordinary power of enforced coalescence, of which the outcome is the emergence, pan passu, of an ever - increasing amount of spiritual energy in matter that is ever more powerfully synthesized?

Novelty insinuates itself more dramatically into the stream of becoming, allowing for the emergence of new levels of being in which there is a greater degree of sensitivity to final causation, that is, more freedom to respond to the cosmic aim of Beauty and Peace.3

A kind of restlessness is intrinsic to all phases of emergence, a cosmic discontent, a sense that further ideals of harmonized intensity yet remain to be realized.

Religious symbolism pointing to some ultimate context of cosmic significance, to a ground of meaning and love, to a comprehensive preservative care, is at least not incompatible with what we now know about the logic of emergence and he nature of physical reality.

In the mode of being felt the divine presence in the universe is a lure or power of persuasion continually offering new possibilities of intensity and harmony to patterns of events in cosmic becoming.16 «God» is a word we may use to refer to the radical source of novelty and order in the emergent universe.17 Without such a source of novelty and order we may well ask whether there would be any emergence at all.

Faith, in the context of an emergent universe, is simply the stance that we at the human level of emergence would take when we surrender ourselves to being influenced by whatever higher field there may be encompassing the cosmic hierarchy.

In this cosmology, allowing for the 800 - year development of vocabulary and knowledge, we can see openness to biological and cosmic evolution, complexity, emergence, matter as density - of - energy — all cherished by modern science — as well as metaphysics, finality and theology, which the Church seeks to uphold and defend: all of which, incidentally, your magazine seeks to bring together, too.

lllustrisTNG is the largest hydrodynamic simulation project to date for the emergence of cosmic structures, says Springel, also of MPA and Heidelberg University.

An infinite potentiality that has to be promoted by a global - cosmic education - energy that generate a humanist quantum interference leading to the emergence of the «homo conscienciatus»: able to eradicate poverty and to achieve the MDGs.

Knowing that the emergence of life on our planet is a cosmic miracle, is critical to transgressing the epistemic paradigm box that sees nature as a mere object to be exploited.