Sentences with phrase «for conscious thought»

Our sensations of wonder and pleasure, our capacity for conscious thought and speculation, our restless curiosity and drive are hers to share.

The amygdala is an almond - shaped structure at a crossroads in the brain's circuitry: it links the cortex, which is responsible for conscious thought, with regions of the brain that control the body's emotional responses.

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Its proponents will tell you that conscious thought accounts for only 5 % of our brain functions, and that by hooking people up to MRI machines, you can see that advertising stimulates all sorts of unconscious brain activity.

There is still no explanation for the spontaneous origin of the universe, as well as the advanced cognition of the brain (chemicals and genetics reveal general trends, but no one knows how complete thoughts are actually formed, nor emotions or personalities); creation and the human conscious, the two fundamental focuses of religion.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

And it is conscious: that is, it does not stay below the threshold of consciousness and work there unknown to the soul (as, for instance, infant baptism is thought by some to do), but comes within the field of awareness where the man can «know» it as he knows any other fact of experience.

Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

When we take conscious experience as our basis for understanding what experience is, we think of receiving and responding to stimuli from the body and the environment, of emotion, purpose, and thought, of the significant organization of data and the influencing of action.

So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.159

On the matter of justice, Harris thinks the only thing wrong with injustice is that it is bad for the conscious well - being of others.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 says: «For the living are conscious that they will die; * + but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all» Can't really be in a place being tortured for eternity if a.) souls die b.) thoughts die and c.) you are conscious of nothing at aFor the living are conscious that they will die; * + but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all» Can't really be in a place being tortured for eternity if a.) souls die b.) thoughts die and c.) you are conscious of nothing at afor the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all» Can't really be in a place being tortured for eternity if a.) souls die b.) thoughts die and c.) you are conscious of nothing at afor eternity if a.) souls die b.) thoughts die and c.) you are conscious of nothing at all.

Any seeming benefit derived from mental manipulation is proportional to one's faith in magic... The process, either unconsciously or consciously, of thought manipulation has no scientific foundation, for God is uninfluenced and always conscious — always consciously governing all that is real, harmonious, and eternal.

Because I have great sympathies for this line of thought, I am often self - conscious of how mainline Protestant traditions - including the one in which I carry out my ministry - have failed to articulate the beauty of traditional church teachings on sexuality.

Hence, I will only point out very briefly some of the ways in which Whitehead's metaphysical ideas, and his related understanding of the objects of physics, form a foundation for seeing inorganic, living, and conscious organisms within one scheme of thought.

In pursuing these avenues I have found much inspiration in the thought of process theologians, who have made a conscious effort to interpret Christian faith for our time in terms that appropriate the insights of science.

For a rough picture of the world has emerged in which thought, both conscious and unconscious, is an intimate interplay of only more or less focused and engaged acts of minding that result (mirabile dictu!)

There is far more evidence for the beginning of conscious thought near the beginning of the third trimester than there is for the existence of any gods.

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 Nicene tradition has struggled for many centuries to discipline its concepts so that they fit with the Bible, so much so that it is difficult to identify a way of thinking about God, history, and human destiny that is at once more metaphysically self - conscious and more thoroughly and constantly invested with exegetical substance.

A word about the context of my present work: I still read British and German New Testament scholars and learn from them, but, without having made a conscious choice about it, I do not think that I read them as much as I used to, and except for people like Erhardt Güttgemanns, who also does New Testament theology from a foundation in literary criticism and linguistics, I am not sure that they are moving me in really new directions.

We all do the best we can and by making a conscious decision to being vegan for a month you have shown that you are already thinking differently about your choices.

No one questions it but I have to think that for those who have made a very conscious decision not to marry for whatever the reasons, it has to be bothersome to not be open about the fact that you're in a committed relationship but not in a marriage.

Executive skills come from a part of the brain called the frontal lobes, which is up here way behind your eyes and is actually the control switches for the brain in the sense that if we take conscious control of our thinking, our planning, controlling our own impulses, and basically behaving in socially acceptable ways, your frontal lobes are involved in all of those.

Now, I'll give the readers here credit for catching the part where they flashed up on the screen a nice graphic stating that you COULD put an extra ice pack or two into the lunch and probably «decrease the risk,» but I think talking about how not even an ice pack, or refrigeration at many day cares, is enough to keep your child from possibly coming down with foodborne illness could be enough to make some less conscious parents throw up their hands in disgust and say «I give up.»

If your toddler has a tendency to run into the street, rather than punish him for something his brain is not mature enough to handle (the ability to stop, think, remember what you said and make a conscious decision to turn away), find a solution that meets everyone's needs.

Katherine Woodward Thomas's groundbreaking method, Conscious Uncoupling, provides the valuable skills and tools for you to travel this challenging terrain with these five thoughtful and thought - provoking steps: Step 1: Find Emotional Freedom Step 2: Reclaim Your Power and Your Life Step 3: Break the Pattern, Heal Your Heart Step 4: Become a Love Alchemist Step 5: Create Your Happy Even After Life This paradigm - shifting guide will steer you away from a bitter end and toward a new life that's empowered and flourishing.

Too many moms get stuck in their depression and think that there's something wrong with them or that their babies are better off without them, so we're glad Hayden and other celebrities have spoken out on the subject and made other women feel less self - conscious about getting the help they need for themselves and their families.

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«I think we're seeing people be more conscious about their decision to marry and I think we need to set them up for success.»

I think the reason more health care professionals are choosing home birth is that they tend to be more healthy (or at least health conscious) and have the educational privilege and professional experience to look for other options.

For her, she said it was a conscious choice to recognise her body could do important things for her baby, and to reprogram the way she thought of her breasFor her, she said it was a conscious choice to recognise her body could do important things for her baby, and to reprogram the way she thought of her breasfor her baby, and to reprogram the way she thought of her breasts.

The conscious mind controls our brain for only five per cent of the day, whereas the subconscious mind has control of our thoughts 95 per cent of the time.

Johnson said: «It is perfectly true that I had thought «res ipsa loquitur» [the matter speaks for itself], just get on and do the job, but I was conscious that people wanted me to contribute to the public debate.

Martin was responsible for coming up with this idea, then testing it in healthy volunteers before trying it out on people thought to be in a minimally conscious state.

We like to see ourselves as being completely conscious of our thought processes, of how we feel, of the decisions we make and our reasons for making them.

A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»

Previous brain - machine interface systems have made it possible for people to control robots, cursors, or prosthetics with conscious thought, but they often take a lot of effort and concentration, says José del R. Millán, a biomedical engineer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, who develops brain - machine interface systems that don't need to be implanted into the brain.

It was easy for people to see that being manipulated negated Jill's free will, but even when her behaviour was totally predictable, people still thought she acted on her own conscious reasoning, and so was responsible for her actions (Cognition, doi.org/vvc).

Practicing conscious gratitude allows us to appreciate our lives for what we do have, rather than thinking negatively about the things we don't have.

We discuss the truth behind making a profit on wellness, Dr. Chopra's spiritual belief systems, his exact morning routine, how to raise a conscious and mindful kid, his surprising social media practices, how he's managed to avoid all stress for the last 35 years, and the philosophies he thinks will help us defeat the current global insanity crisis going on in the world today.

Fit focus for 2016 «I think one of my focuses for my fitness in 2016 is to be more conscious of not letting winter stop me.

Both postural and phasic muscles are skeletal muscle, which is categorized as voluntary muscle: voluntary, as opposed to the smooth muscle your organs are made of, which is involuntary — meaning your organs continue to do their job without your conscious control or consent (even, for example, when you're not thinking about what your small intestine is doing).

My blog features Creative Recipes for Carb - Conscious Living and no matter what your reason is for limiting carbs, I think you can find recipes here to help.

Tina had been conscious of nutrition for years and thought that she was eating healthfully to prevent diabetes and other chronic diseases.

If you do, it is essential to be a conscious consumer - not only to think about where your protein is sourced, from a humane perspective, but also for health purposes.

I was looking forward to get ur Thursday updates for a while before I was pregnant and then while being such and i was thinking - when i become a mom, it would be so exciting to get some nice insight on weekly basic on our (including parental) life, share mom's reality and get so many useful useful tips, and then when i gave birth to my baby (last November), u stopped doing videos, and i missed them well, i felt like i needed support and help, and a little humor, and just another good real conscious mama (like u), and it was hard to adjust to being a mommy at the beginning.

This industrial sweetener is currently the darling of health conscious crowd but is best avoided for a multitude of reasons as discussed in «Worse than We Thought: The Lowdown on High Fructose Corn Syrup and Agave «Nectar»» (Wise Traditions, Spring 2009).

I would love to win because I have been taking steps to be more conscious of what I consume and I think fresh, pure water is crucial for optimal health.

A few weeks of claiming sacred time for myself and practicing conscious thoughts of gratitude upon waking have done so much for me.