Since our earliest technological achievements, the story suggests, we have been trying to attain a spurious oneness derived
from human self - sufficiency and autonomy.
Not exact matches
Additionally,
self - driving car technology will be so good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable
from humans except that robot drivers will be safer and more predictable than a
human driver with less than one year's driving experience.»
In March of 2017, Recode obtained internal documents showing that
human drivers had to take over
from Uber's system very frequently relative to the same numbers for other
self - driving efforts.
The right solution ties in perfectly to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a well - known pyramid which ranks
human needs and desires in order of necessity:
From the physiological (the basics like water and oxygen), up to safety, love and belonging, esteem, and finally,
self - actualization.
Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations
from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies test
self - driving vehicles without
human backup drivers that can intervene if the vehicle makes a mistake.
The fallout
from the accident could stall the development and testing of
self - driving vehicles, designed to eventually perform far better than
human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities that occur each year.
To get consumers over the psychological speed bump of letting go of the wheel, the switch
from entirely
human - operated cars to
self - driving vehicles will be gradual.
Page oversaw major changes to Google's business structure in 2015, starting with the creation of Alphabet, the holding company that manages Google and all of its related ventures, including Nest, Calico, and Google X. Previously the chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet, which has its hands in everything
from home automation to
self - driving cars to prolonging
human life.
KITT can communicate with and learn
from his
human operator and is
self - aware, with a sensitive and gentle personality.
Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of
self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a
human chain to take water
from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).
The words, Socrates tells us, were to be construed as both a greeting and an admonition to worshipers
from the Greek god of music, poetry and healing: Know thyself — know your truthful soul, your imperfect and
human self — before entering this hallowed ground.
These neural networks were trained by supervised learning
from human expert moves, and by reinforcement learning
from self - play.
From the
self - employed startup to large retail franchises, businesses large and small can take advantage of a software package tailored specifically to fulfill your
human resource needs.
Other groups have also put forth proposals on
self - driving cars, including requiring the vehicles and even semi-automated systems to meet performance targets, greater transparency and data
from makers and operators of the vehicles, increased regulatory oversight, and better monitoring of and engagement with
human drivers.
Industrial robots have replaced
human workers in the manufacturing sector,
self - service checkouts have replaced retail employees, and pretty soon more traditional white - collar workers will find themselves under pressure
from technology.
Separate
from greedy
self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we
humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:
the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local
human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated
from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and
human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of
self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.
Seeing
human beings on a daily basis making the transition
from life to death, often in an acute context, lends it
self to the constant recognition of the transience of life.
Grisez - Finnis likewise begin with
self - evident first principles that are not derived
from any factual propositions about
human nature.
While convergence does happen in religion
from the perspective of the
human psyche being adapted through its
self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming
from a singular God.
In speaking of the process of constant
self - creation, of our continuing need to «reconceive ourselves» — a gift of the Bard to
humans — he is echoing phrases that sprout
from the lips of those who insist on a «multiplicity of subjective positions,» «potential identities,» and the like.
I prefer to apply lessons learned
from a wider range of
human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of
self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.
Far
from compromising
human freedom, then, the substantive goal of a maximal public world calls for maximal
human self - determination.
But
self - conscious or
human existence, the fourth grade, «immensely extends this concept, «permitting purposes far transcending survival and, therefore, exhibiting marked individuality that results
from pursuit of the better and the best.
What captures Jones's theological imagination is Calvin's riveting descriptions of sin's power to assault a
human being «
from the outside in,» co-opting the
self's resources and eventually destroying the
self's integrity.
Christian thinking about God and Jesus Christ and the
human self can not be separated
from Christian thinking about the body,
human society, and the natural world.
For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change
from rugged
self - sufficient
human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.
That means opposing the
self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God
from the life of the community and
from the public order, as well as acknowledging...
human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».
The porous
self stems
from the social imaginary of an enchanted world; its primary trait is an openness toward the world as a causal matrix filled with other
humans, spirits, demons, and cosmic forces that produce meaning.
Thus, if in dealing with the problem of the various
human races, their appearance, their awakening, their future, we start
from its purely biological roots, it will lead us to recognize that the only climate in which man can continue to grow is that of devotion and
self - denial in a spirit of brotherhood.
It seems incredible to them, for example, that the marvelous, intricate, and dynamic adjustments constantly made by the cells in the
human body, apart
from which
human life is impossible, are somehow
self - explanatory.
The basic
human rights — and freedoms — underlying this issue are the right to freely associate, the right to
self - determination, freedom
from discrimination, freedom
from persecution, freedom of faith, and freedom of conscience.
He condemned and cursed the
self - appointed religious leaders who perpetuated the perverted Judaism of the day through their promotion of the Talmud and Rabbinic Halachal above the Mosaic Law given by God; those who added to the Scriptures (the Pharisees) and those who subtracted
from the Scriptures (the Sadducees) and anyone else who changed the commandments of God because of their own
human desires for acceptance and the honor of men.
For the saving love of God to be present to
human beings it would have to be so in a way different
from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate
self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
Even if we have strayed
from the original blessing of our made - in - the - image - of - God
selves, we are blessed again, redeemed, because of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, all of humanity blessed because he broke through and embodied humanity, showing us how to be truly
human, all over again.
Our
self - awareness, though it helps define what is unique and precious about being
human, also renders us prey to guilt and to the anxiety stemming
from our existential aloneness and our mortality.
Its boasted
self - reliance virtually always capitulates at the point of accepting
human support
from family, friends, or physicians, though it usually fails to recognize that its
self - sufficient logic is as much violated by
human as it would be by divine assistance.
Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the
self - alienation of God
from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity
from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of
human experience.
Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in
human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature
from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and
self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the
self - annihilation of God.
Any one, therefore, holding a religious rather than a materialistic philosophy, will think of the process of Biblical development as dual — seen
from one side, a
human achievement; seen
from the other, a divine
self - revelation.
As we listen to the witness of the Bible, we may be inclined to think, at first, that this is no more than the voice of the
human Israel which points us away
from the gods of idolatry as the first step in man's
self - emancipation.
Purpose of post is to make hindu secular, ignorant
self centered
human to realize power of truth, nothing can over power truth, nor can deviate
from truth in life, because truth absolute rules the world, their is none other but truth absolute LORD GOD of the world.
At the same time we must allow therapy to make its contribution by disentangling the
self from unfortunate patterns of
human parenting that are being confused with the parenting of God.
As a science - fiction reader I am always amazed that some people will say that a book brings into focus
human nature and future trends and a possible scheme for the salvation of the
human race
from our own
self - destructiveness.
The world is full of
self fulfilling prophecies and they come
from nearly every religion and only serve to prove how gullible
humans really are.
But because such a theology begins with the
human quest for the divine rather than with God's own
self - manifestation, it is susceptible to the misdirection which I think Percy's later work suffers
from.
He shows us His real,
human, vulnerable,
self when He cried out, «Let this cup pass
from me.»
Too great an attachment to the datum
self as a methodological starting point commits one unwittingly to solipsism, Hartshorne holds, since one could never achieve a sound epistemological basis for inferring the existence of anything beyond the datum
self by this method.31 Further, if it is true that
human beings are social all the way down, resistance to a literal participation in the being of a person by others (including their literal purposes) is also a form of impersonalism, according to Hartshorne's analysis — a charge
from which Brightman would have reeled, had he realized that this was Hartshorne's implication.
According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the forms of nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him by the Logos»; in other words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing
human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right
self - governance» versus a liberation
from the yoke of that nature.
From a humanistic standpoint, which finds its Archimedean point in the
self - existent
human mind, the demand is perfectly reasonable.