Sentences with phrase «governed by physical law»

Cell division in plants is governed by a physical law.

One dimension of physicalism, as Kim defines it, was mentioned above: the belief that the world is governed by physical law.

One thing we know is that Kim will not solve this Kantian problem with a Kantian solution: The idea that theoretical reason deals with a merely apparent world, largely created by mind itself is ruled out by Kim's physicalist assumption that «the world is fundamentally a physical world governed by physical law» (SM xv).

This is such a problem, he says, because of two basic assumptions: physicalism, «the claim that the world is fundamentally a physical world governed by physical law,» and mental realism, «the view that mentality is a real feature of our world,» which «requires that mentality have genuine causal powers, powers to affect other events and processes of this world, whether these are mental or physical» (SM xv).

However, in the end, even those who believe the world is governed by physical laws find it difficult to believe that love is merely an illusion.

The universe is not a dark, inert set of atoms governed by physical laws that are mere projections of human effort but show that science itself indicates that the universe, indeed all things, are governed by a Unity - Law of Control and Direction, an intrinsic relationality, that God is «the sunshine of the soul» and His Son, Jesus, is our Saviour and Redeemer.

Not exact matches

For example, Michael Polanyi has written that living organisms contain and transmit information, which in principle can not be explained solely by reference to the laws that govern its physical and chemical embodiment.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

I want to know if they think physicist Paul Davie is right about the obvious creation of universe governing physical laws, if Einstein was right in a God presence and what they think about quantum mechanics that goes back to von Neumann, where one is led by its logic (as Wigner and Peierls were) to the conclusion that not everything is just matter in motion.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

(Of course, this activity is entirely subject to the constraints imposed by the quantum mechanical laws governing the physical workings of those material systems.)

A God who at first glance is comparable to the picture of the Oriental ruler, who governs his people with complete arbitrariness, bound by no rational law; but a God who is conceived as wholly different from an Oriental ruler, since all physical traits are lacking, all tyrannical desires alien; a God who desires justice and righteousness and punishes sin, a God who loves His people as a father his first - born son, a God to whom the religious man ills as to his father, and in whose help he trusts in all situations of life.

Everything a human being does, all complex behaviors, can, in principle, if not yet in practice, be explained purely on the basis of describable physical processes a governed by deterministic physical laws.

For such tiny objects, the world is governed by a madhouse set of physical laws known as quantum mechanics.

Instead, because «the way school is» was imprinted on all of us with Intel - like precision by our own 12 years of schooling, America believes that schools are governed by a set of immutable, almost physical, laws, which include:

Thus John Perry Barlow's famous Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, and Johnson and Post's Law and Borders: «The Net thus radically subverts a system of rule - making based on borders between physical spaces, at least with respect to the claim that cyberspace should naturally be governed by territorially defined rules.»