Sentences with phrase «even human memory»

Modeling this process is giving us insight into neural networks and even human memory.

Not exact matches

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

It has been proven very solidly that humans» short term memory can't even remember what color a person's shirt is 15 minutes later unless instructed specifically to do so.

This eschatological consummation will be the death of the transcendent God, his self - negation by a total incarnation of actualization «throughout the total range of human experience, «18 his «kenotic passion» fulfilled in a «new and liberated humanity «19 — a humanity liberated from even the memory of God to become its own Divine Self.20

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.

To begin with, because human beings possess highly developed faculties of reason, language, and memory, a man's sense of what is «his» is not limited to himself, his family, or even those with whom he regularly interacts.

Monad's were for Leibniz just as real on the subhuman, even subanimal, levels, as on the human level; they were merely much less capable of thought and definite conscious recollections and perceptions, more limited to simple feeling and extremely short - run memory of what has just happened.

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.

Although all humans share a «universal mode of operation,» Freeman says, even identical twins have divergent life histories and hence unique memories, perceptions, and predilections.

If it works in humans, the compound could help reverse memory decline in patients, even a month later

Although all humans share a «universal mode of operation,» says Freeman, even identical twins have divergent life histories and hence unique memories, perceptions, and predilections.

«The olfactory system is often an underappreciated sensory system in humans, even though we've all experienced the feeling of smelling a particular odor and having an almost instant flashback or emotional experience of an old memory,» said Filomene G. Morrison, BA, a neuroscience PhD candidate at Emory University and McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the paper.

I think it's only very slowly — and I don't even want to claim we've won the argument completely yet — that neuroscientists have begun to accept that there is, at least in animals, a purely spatial function for the hippocampus and that in addition to its preserved spatial function, this could form the basis for an episodic memory system in humans.

Experiments have shown that unsaturated fatty acids inhibit the growth of the human fetus15 and, in the absence of omega - 3 and omega - 6, both short - term and long - term memory of the fetus are improved.16 In a 2016 study, Taiwanese scientists reported that «essential» unsaturated fats from fish oil (omega - 3) are toxic to the aging brain, 17 and as it turns out: fish oil isn't even good for fish!

Programmed to be the ultimate law enforcer, RoboCop's not supposed to remember his human past - but memories of life, love and family are flooding in, blurring the line between man and machine, even as RoboCop sweeps the streets of «scum.»

Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, 2015) Pixar's family comedy about emotional intelligence was astoundingly ambitious not least because it tackles the saddest of human truths — eventually we will lose everything we love, sometimes even the memory of it.

But, then you have to accept that all mutants age much more slowly than regular humans (okay, that could work) and that their memories are also a bit shoddy (like when Xavier says in X-Men that he and Magneto built Cerebro and in First Class it's stated that Henry McCoy (aka Beast) built it and, if you factor in the actual storyline from the comics, it gets even more confusing).

Moreau's composition conveys the sharpness of painful memory, even while her ambling camera and almost random continuity carry with them the atmosphere of the process of human reflection.

The tragedy of the film comes from the loss of memory: human brains are unreliable and fungible, and the omnipresent devices we think make us more interconnected are even more fragile.

Even though it's young, this new science has already led to major breakthroughs in everything from cancer research to the study of human development to the treatment of diabetes, and to our understanding of human memory.

Even if it did not, the notion of learning and immediately demonstrating ability flies in the face of well - established research on human's limited working memory capacity.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Actually no, its not been that cold a year, but the human memory is not very long, we are used to warm years,» he said, «Even in the 80s [this year] would have felt like a warm year.»

Meanwhile, they «conveniently» ignore any cooling trends such as the record cold in South America this winter with cattle and people freezing to death, record snow levels and even snow in places where there is no human memory of it ever snowing.

I found this video on human mindset by Karl Moore as part of the 30 Day Challenge to be very interesting and true indeed — I already knew about the principles explained in the video, but lots of people don't — and even if they do — it's good to have it refreshed in your memory, every now and then.