Sentences with phrase «did human consciousness»

Why then did human consciousness evolve?

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... well the same logic applys to god... i enjoy dropping these logic bombs on people and see how they react and hope that maybe that logic bomb will eventually set up a chain reaction in their consciousness... or maybe I am an egotistical f c k who just likes to have an unassaiable argument which with to beat others over the head with... maybe I am wrong to do so because the Human Condition is so cold and bleak in its finality that people need the cushion of god to go on with their everyday lives.

I don't believe in little green aliens but I don't think human consciousness evolved.

I will admit that I don't know if he actually believed in some higher consciousness, but he certainly didn't believe in any gods created by humans.

Of course, this does not mean that quanta have sense experience or consciousness, but even in human beings, these are not fundamental.

When we are dealing in general with the gradual development of the noosphere into planetary consciousness we must of course do full justice to the great, the essential part played by the other sections of the human race in bringing about the eventual plenitude of the earth.

When humans experience this harmony «they call it aesthetic experience Aesthetic experience is experience in which many influences vivify instead of neutralize one another and at the same time do not impair or destroy the clarity of consciousness....

Taking note of the altered world - consciousness of human beings in this century, according to which Being is to be understood in strictly interpersonal terms, Mühlen suggests, first of all, that the classical expression homoousios, as applied to the Son's relationship to the Father, does not necessarily mean that the Son is of the same substance as the Father but only that he is of equal being (gleichseiendlich) with the Father (VG 13).

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

Yet even in its crude and cruel forms religion has been doing humanity this service: it has kept alive the consciousness of something in human life which must not be violated.

It does not necessarily follow from these affirmations that all matter or all energy have in them some bits of life or protolife, or that the primordial amoeba or the primordial virus possessed some rudiments of human consciousness or some embryonic minds.

But the emergence of the reflective consciousness as the seat of human existence did not necessarily entail an awareness by the soul of itself.

If human consciousness survives the evaporation of brain tissue then perhaps the «spirit» of St. Nicholas is alive and well and knows I care about who he was, and what he did while he was here.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

According to Marx, Prometheus is opposed to «all divine and earthly Gods who do not acknowledge human self - consciousness as the highest divinity.»

Although the nervous system can not be said to derive from human consciousness, it does, according to Bergson, «measure» the degree of consciousness.

By so doing we encourage men to emphasize man's sin rather than God's grace; we prompt them to let sin usurp the place of God in human consciousness; we lead them to become more sure of sin than of the Gospel.

An appreciation of the damage we are doing to the earth has been slow to surface in modern human consciousness.

Thus an appreciation of the damage we are doing to the earth has been slow to surface in modern human consciousness.

If God now does not exist nor act except in existing and acting men, then faith is only another word for human consciousness.

Within this social organism there would arise «a spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another».5 This super-consciousness would evolve in the same way that personal consciousness does within the complex physiology of the human organism.

So that has led me to believe, through my findings, studies and personal mystical experiences that we do indeed have an energy called the soul and there is a consciousness beyond and out of a human body.

So other than raise up the consciousness of two of the homo specimens to the level of humans on the 6th day, what was God doing on the other five?

This idea of the planetary totalization of human consciousness (with its unavoidable corollary, that wherever there are life - bearing planets in the Universe, they too will become encompassed, like the Earth, with some form of planetized spirit) may at first sight seem fantastic: but does it not exactly correspond to the facts, and does it not logically extend the cosmic curve of molecularization?

Even the «soul,» the personally ordered society of actual occasions constituting human consciousness for Whitehead, does not have a comprehensive understanding of the organism within which it finds itself.

Just because science hasn't explained the genesis of life, or the phenomenon of human consciousness, or even how the big bang banged — it doesn't mean that it will never do so in the future.

But if we can no longer accept the reality of a disembodied human soul, then what does it mean to attribute consciousness, thinking powers, will and emotions to a non-physical bodiless being, however greatly exalted?

Again, we don't g on belief but rather experience, at the same time recognizing that we have a limited human consciousness.

Nor, I think, does the acknowledgment of animal consciousness truly threaten to diminish our sense of the vast gulf — cognitive, moral, creative, imaginative — separating the human world from that of even the most intelligent of animals.

While it is easiest to grasp the prius of creativity - esse in the human case, a process metaphysics sees at least a faint glimmer of subjectivity (which for process thinkers does not imply consciousness!)

There is little chance that we or they will ever do away with the narrative - symbolic matrices of all human consciousness and questioning.

Certainly consciousness does not exist at the level of atoms and electrons, nor does reflective self - awareness seem to appear in evolution until the human species comes onto the scene.

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

Science has virtually no explanation pertaining to the origin of consciousness, ethics or even the human experience; and whatever explanations they have certainly don't suffice.

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

So far, though, most people would doubt that computers truly «see» a visual scene full of shapes and colors in front of their cameras, that they truly «hear» a question through their microphones, that they feel anything — experience consciousness — the way humans do, despite computers» remarkable ability to crunch data at superhuman speed.

In her recent book Why Animals Matter: Animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well - being, Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford claims we still don't really know if other animals are conscious and that we should «remain skeptical and agnostic... Militantly agnostic if necessary.»

Awareness of our innate smelling abilities, however, is complicated because the human language doesn't have words for a trillion smells, and much of smelling happens under the radar of our consciousness.

A physician and cell biologist who won a 1972 Nobel Prize for his work describing the structure of antibodies, Edelman is now obsessed with the enigma of human consciousness — except that he does not see it as an enigma.

The fact that repressed memory didn't turn up even in fictional literature before this point suggests that it may be culture - bound, not the natural product of human consciousness.

That day Black decided to leave the mystery of consciousness alone for a while and to apply himself instead to doing some earthly good for the human brain.

However, I don't believe that human «consciousness» deserves special status.

What is unusual is that Melanie's human consciousness doesn't disappear, but fights with Wanderer for control of the body.

Enter OCP, which finds a way to bring a human consciousness into a drone, and in so doing creates the ability to make money by selling super-expensive human / drone hybrids.

What they don't know is that in the late «60s, the house was home to a Manson Family - like cult run by Frazer, a charismatic former scientist pushing the boundaries of human consciousness.

In Netflix «s new sci - fi series Altered Carbon, human consciousness is transferred between bodies, meaning bodies are merely shed like a snake does its skin.

First, there's Geoffrey (1938), a young and naïve schoolteacher who enlists during WWII -LRB-»... there would be, he imagined, an intense but brief struggle in Europe») only to find himself in Nazi - occupied Poland in an unspeakable situation; Billy (1859), an industrious Englishman who works his way out of poverty and gets caught in a love triangle; Elena (2029), an Italian scientist whose ground - breaking work in the field of human consciousness doesn't seem to eliminate her loneliness; Jeanne (1822), a simple - minded French servant who comes to know God and embraces change; and Anya (1971), an American, Joplin-esque musician whose talent and thirst for freedom send her on a glorious yet self - destructive path.

This book does what few books on animals manage to do, which is to attempt to raise the level of human consciousness about the necessity for relationships with companion animals and the sacredness of those bonds.

Instead it is something that explores the phenomena of consciousness and challenges the meaning of human intuition — you know, as you do.

the phenomena of consciousness and challenges the meaning of human intuition — you know, as you do.