Sentences with phrase «emergent phenomena which»
As in all of her work, Donovan spends months or even years searching for a method of assembly that allows the simple and immutable characteristics of the chosen material to generate complex, emergent phenomena which keep the viewer cycling between perception of the parts and the whole between the forms themselves and the light that surrounds and divides them.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.
It is ironic and telling that within a few days of writing a post about how young people seem to be gravitating toward either neo-Reformed theology or the emerging church, I should come across a piece by Dan Kimball in which he speaks of the emerging / emergent phenomenon in the past tense.
This transformed human community forms a living organism, a biological phenomenon which we conceive to be the next stage in the emergent evolution of the world, and the incarnation of the divine Word.
«Ideas are a product of society,» an emergent phenomenon, Hillis told me, «which are almost inevitable.»
Nevertheless, he insists that scientists can discover profound new laws by investigating complex, emergent phenomena, which can not be understood in terms of their individual components.
More recently, Verlinde suggested an alternative called «emergent gravity,» in which gravity is a byproduct of quantum fluctuations and dark energy (another scarcely understood phenomenon, one that seems to be causing the universe's expansion to accelerate).
The show's title is inspired by a very specific emergent phenomenon, «neuromast,» which is the sensory organ that allows fish to effectively behave in unison against the threat of predators.
Earth already has a very complicated but natural system of climate temperature control, technically referred to as emergent climate phenomena, which have the result that catastrophic global warming can not occur.
One of the many problems with building GCMs is that Earth's climate system includes a number of «emergent phenomena» which only appear when certain conditions occur.
This means that our forecasts tell us more about ourselves and our times than they do about emergent folks or phenomena, which is why it's fun, as a study in history, to see what the past has said... [more]
This means that our forecasts tell us more about ourselves and our times than they do about emergent folks or phenomena, which is why it's fun, as a study in history, to see what the past has said about its future.
They are fighting a bit of an uphill battle as coding is a language skill and learning it is an emergent phenomenon based on having a great context and environment in which to do so collaboratively.