Sentences with phrase «human ability at»

Not to mention the extraordinary feats of human ability at the Paralympics.

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«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

This phenomenon is known as the «uncanny valley,» the point at which a leap forward in technology outpaces a human's ability to cope.

In retrospect, the new Tesla seems rather pedestrian coming from a man who muses about flying cars and the day when robots replace humans, but at least he possesses a superhuman ability to generate publicity.

«Our managers look at three key areas — passion, proven history, and an employee's willingness and ability to adapt to change and take on new things,» David Stafford, chief human resources officer and executive vice president of personnel for Michelin North America, told Business Insider.

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

The great trick that humans developed at some point in the last few hundred thousand years is the ability to circle around a tree, rock, ancestor, flag, book or god, and then treat that thing as sacred.

Rather, the embryo is human merely by virtue of this physical and spiritual substance created by the union of sperm and egg (or at least by virtue of its purported ability to survive physically outside the womb)

It is really bizarre that the GOP bellows about wanting «small» government and more «freedom» while at the same time working to destroy human rights and true ability to choose for oneself.

We as humans either know anger... gentleness / love or hate... peace or anxiety... we as humans can not understand that God is all of those things at the same time because to us it is not possbile... His emotions are way beyond are ability to understand... and when we don't understand we decide to discredit it... we decide if we can't apply the «scientic method» to God then He can't be real.

In fact our abilities to integrate is simply an example of evolution in progress, at a human level.

For Hartshorne the ability to think rationally, on at least an elementary level, is a milestone in human life.

A more accurate view would be that all human beings characteristically guide their actions by practical reason; the point is not that we should aim at a maximum possible distance from other creatures regarding our ability to imagine how future contingencies will eventually be actualized.

At the human level, at least, and possibly with respect to nature itself, the other is often experienced as a threat or a potential threat to our ability to realize our purposeAt the human level, at least, and possibly with respect to nature itself, the other is often experienced as a threat or a potential threat to our ability to realize our purposeat least, and possibly with respect to nature itself, the other is often experienced as a threat or a potential threat to our ability to realize our purposes.

As Griffin rightly claims, FWTs believe that significant freedom — the ability to determine how one will respond in a given situation — is so inherently valuable that to bestow it on humans is justified, even if such freedom is at times misused or abused.

So you think the complexity of a human being (our ability to love, to think, every small detail of our anatomy that happens to work out perfectly) is by chance?!! I guarantee that you and 99 % of the other atheists will be asking Gods forgiveness at your moment of death...

January 31, 2012 at 9:19 am Report abuse o Chad @hippypoet «god is an idea, such an improbable idea that many have, to make the idea inarguably, said that the idea is beyond human comprehension and so be doing remove the need but more importantly the ability to prove and so make it an untouchable notion of truth all based on an idea... how is that different then being delusional?

As Robert Haynes, president of the 16th International Congress of Genetics, told his organization, «for at least 3,000 years, the majority of people have considered that human beings were special... What the ability to manipulate genes should indicate to people is the very deep extent to which we are biological machines....

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

The ability to identify the origin of a canned beverage is a key requirement, which is why every canned item must be assigned a unique identifier in the form of a human and machine - readable code that is read and recorded at all stages of its progress throughout the supply chain.

African - Americans and physically disabled athletes have the same desire to compete as other humans, and if their abilities are up to par, there's no reason they shouldn't have the opportunity to play at their sport's highest levels.

Nobody would question Henry's ability or his record at Arsenal but there were also times when he was off colour as is expected of all human beings.

If we wish to impact and decrease infant mortality in our state, then the ability to provide human milk for all babies in need is crucial,» said Harley Ginsberg, MD, Section Head of Neonatology and Medical Director of Neonatal Intensive Care at Ochsner Baptist.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

«What is important at this point is the ability of our federal government to mobilize all its brainpower and resources to end the escalating human suffering now in clear display to the world in the Caribbean,» the letter states.

Speaking at an NASUWT fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, NASUWT's Deputy General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach condemned the Government's attempts to undermine the Human Rights Act and curb the ability of trade unions to advocate and represent the interests of their members through the Trade Union Bill.

Anyone can become disabled or a carer at any time, so it is vital that we all get involved in ensuring that the human rights of every person - no matter what their ability - are protected.»

Says the ability understand the human condition and the way that an AG relates to that condition is at the heart of his run.

Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

If Neandertals did have the capacity for symbolic thinking — crucial for using drawings or language to represent ideas and objects — that ability may have developed at least 500,000 years ago in an ancestor shared with humans, the two research teams propose.

13 — 14 Over the past three years IBM scientists have developed a robot called Watson that can defeat human contestants at Jeopardy! Watson's ability to decode puzzling questions depends on intricate computer algorithms that mimic how the human brain processes language and information.

Brexit was on the mind of many, because it could severely hinder the ability of European scientists to work in the U.K. Francisco Diego, an astronomer at University College London, reminded the crowd that science has shown all humans trace their origins back to Africa.

We take for granted our ability to reason using analogies, but the skill is at the core of human cognition, argue Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

«I am leading a research protocol to assess the systematic impact of how electricity affects human beings... to answer questions about the health of the victim and their ability to function at varying times post-shock,» says Richard Moyers, a researcher at ARL (see below).

The Internet of Us explores how information technology has come to dominate our abilities to think, communicate, reason and remember and provides a slightly chilling look at what that means for us as independent thinkers and human beings.

Artificial neural networks, computer programs that mimic the human brain, are great at learning patterns and sequences, but so far they've been limited in their ability to solve complex reasoning problems that require storing and manipulating lots of data.

So far, though, most people would doubt that computers truly «see» a visual scene full of shapes and colors in front of their cameras, that they truly «hear» a question through their microphones, that they feel anything — experience consciousness — the way humans do, despite computers» remarkable ability to crunch data at superhuman speed.

At times, they may surpass humans» ability to work or, in some cases, even survive.

A lens invented at The Ohio State University combines the focusing ability of a human eye with the wide - angle view of an insect eye to capture images with depth.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

Roy Spencer, a climate scientist at the University of Alabama who argued from the skeptical side, agrees that human contributed carbon dioxide lessens the planet's ability to shed heat, meaning that warming is likely.

This suggests that language, not reasoning ability, accounts for most of the apparent human superiority at this game.

A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher will test whether brain stimulation combined with gait training can improve patients» ability to walk after a stroke, under a $ 1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

But pretty soon he is detailing its failings: we are overconfident in our mind - reading abilities; we use our own mind as a template for others, yet confabulate wildly to make sense of ourselves; by stereotyping people we overemphasise differences; we are woefully poor at reading body language; and we constantly misapply our mind - reading talents, dehumanising others while imbuing inanimate objects with human traits.

Because of those superhuman mathematical abilities, a machine plays the game in ways human players might have rejected as wrong, or never considered at all.

At 3 months old, listening to both human and nonhuman primate (lemur) vocalizations supports infants» ability to form categories, a building block of cognition.

Our ability to cooperate and to suppress cheats means that selection at the group level has been an exceptionally strong force during human evolution

Past studies comparing the language - learning abilities of humans and other primates have looked at what monkeys can do with human language.