Sentences with phrase «human characteristics made»

The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that certain human characteristics made going paperless an impossible feat.

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In my experience, it can make a big difference in your targeting, because Facebook evaluates tens or hundreds of characteristics and signals, which we humans simply can not do.
It is as a creature of wants that a human being has acquired, not only other characteristics that have been said to distinguish him (his disposition to make things, to fabricate, and his invention and use of tools), but also his peculiar attitude toward the world around him: both positive and intelligent.
Only religion presumes to label human characteristics as «sinful», making it impossible for a bible botherer to ever feel «good enough», much less worthy of love and respect.
Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.
To the extent that the man - made setting of man's life and the setting which was naturally antecedent to human freedom are specifically different, the latter being characteristic of earlier times and the former of the present, we are now living in a setting which almost in its very essence is more complicated and intractable and inaccessible to the understanding of the individual than was ever the case before.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
What the upheaval in changing roles and identities is making clear is that the feelings and behaviors traditionally labeled either «feminine» or «masculine» are not characteristic of either sex alone but are human responses.
Symbol - making is a characteristic mark of human spirituality, about which more will be said in the next chapter in connection with language.
Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.
-- We all came from apes which over millions of years changed so much as to make humans with all the different racial characteristics that we have today.
The three characteristics which make the human individual a truly unique object in the eyes of Science, once we have made up our minds to regard Man not merely as a chance arrival but as an integral element of the physical world, are as follows:
Now, the minor chord in this train of thought is that the very characteristics which make human beings potential paradigms of embodied divine aim in the world also give them greater scope for the persistent thwarting of divine aim.
For those societies, on the other hand, that make up the higher forms of life, and in particular for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the occasions.
It's just another example of humans anthropomorphising (or something) God; giving Him human characteristics to make Him more understandable, whereas actually we can't really understand Him outside of Jesus.
The legend of the tower of Babel is effectively used to show that whereas language may be man's most distinctive characteristic, his own self - centered designs to make a god of himself result in a complete breakdown in that verbal communication upon which all human culture and healthy society depend.
There can be a communalism (and I stress the last three letters of the word to show it to be a perversion of genuine community) that makes nonsense of personal and national characteristics: there can be an individualism with its turning of human life into a battle for supremacy, where the less powerful are beaten down, oppressed, and denied opportunity to express their selfhood while the more powerful secure the place of advantage.
That beautiful blue moment just before the sun fully rises, the birds singing and other nature's voices when us humans don't make any of our characteristic noises, like traffic, yet.
Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).
This new characteristic of the climate will make it easier for climate researchers to differentiate between natural and human - induced climate changes, because it can be expected that the human - induced climate changes will not behave in the same way as the natural fluctuations.
I have also studied the evolutionary origins of human characteristics such as gossip, decision - making, physical attractiveness and religion.
The nano - hydrogels have shown very good characteristics of biocompatibility with the human organism, due to their physical properties, which make them resemble living tissues, especially by its high water content, its soft and elastic consistency, and its low interfacial tension which prevents them from absorbing proteins from body fluids.
«However, whereas in human females the masculine characteristics are less common within the population, in fence lizards, we see the opposite pattern: About three quarters of the females are so - called «bearded ladies,» making masculinized females much more common than their counterparts with little or no blue ornamentation.»
In comparison to «natural» GMOs, that are beyond our control, human - made GMOs have the advantage that we know exactly which characteristic we add to the plant.»
This potentially makes humans more empathetic towards the dog who uses the expression, or because it makes the dog's eyes appear bigger and more infant - like — potentially tapping into humans» preference for child - like characteristics.
Those poor souls, whose work makes regular data entry look exceedingly pleasant by comparison, are essentially being paid to be human, that is, to exhibit a theoretically solely human characteristic.
To make cell characteristics visible to the human eye, scientists normally have to use chemicals that can kill the very cells they want to look at.
These single - celled microbes share many characteristics with human cells, but they can be rapidly grown in great numbers in a flask or petri dish, and they have a life cycle and genome that make their genetics easier to study.
Grains contain toxins and they are inedible in raw form, these are the two natural characteristic of grains which makes it unfit for consumption by predators such as humans and animals.
Random Access Memories is in defining the human drive that has made the French robots: real videos, where they themselves appear, batteries live, pianos, less modular synthesizers, orchestras, voices and more real though, its characteristic vocoders.
Other examples have made the error of using this heightened, artificial system to replicate human characteristics, with the result that perfectly fetching actors invariably emerge resembling action - figures of themselves.
It can make outgoing calls to schedule appointments and it has all the characteristics of real human speech.
They make connections between the human and physical characteristics of their landscape and the kinds of things they can do there.
Most of all, the quick action of the Graziano transmission and the characteristic smooth throttle response of a V - 12 engine make this car far, far easier to drive really, really well than any average human has a right to expect.
«There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Everything depends on the water's source: where it comes from, what the characteristics of the storage basins are, how far is it transported and what chemicals are added to it to make it safe for human consumption.
However, lack of aggression toward humans is characteristic of the breed, which makes the breed a poor choice as a guard dog.
Dog saliva has some characteristics that make humans think it's clean, but we wouldn't recommend using your dog's saliva to clean your dishes.
That one unusual characteristic of calcium oxalate (that nothing will dissolve it) is what makes it such an exasperating problem in veterinary and human medicine.
make them who they are, just as similar characteristics define our unique characteristics as humans.
More importantly, research has indicated that — given fundamental characteristics of human decision - making and interaction — it simply may not be possible to avoid hit - driven market dynamics in a digital ecosystem.
Using handwritten text, drawings, photographs, and her keen eye for the foibles that make us human, Chast addresses the realities of what it is to get old in America today — and what it is to have aging parents today — with tenderness and candor, and a good dose of her characteristic wit.
The term «sense of place» is often used to describe characteristics that make a place special or unique, that foster a sense of authentic human attachment and belonging.
«the art of making knots, which is the peak of both mental abstraction and manual work, could be seen as the human characteristic par excellence, just as much and perhaps even more than language...» Italo Calvino
In fact, in the broadest sense we have to embrace the characteristics, good and bad, that make humans such a rare thing — a species that has become a planet - scale force.
«Although neoskeptics claim to accept the reality» that humans are changing the climate, «their inference that inaction is justified seriously under - emphasizes some well - established characteristics of [man - made climate change] that are important for informing choices,» the authors wrote.
A sophisticated approach to face recognition could make use of a number of layers, including natural human motion, 3D characteristics or impacts of imaging in different wavelengths of light.
Standing 120 cm tall and tipping the scales at 29 kg, Pepper has been designed to understand human emotions by making sense of characteristics like facial expression, body language, and tone of voice, and then responding accordingly.
The agency's home visitation intervention used the Parent Aides Nurturing and Developing With Adolescents curriculum.25 The curriculum was based on theories of human ecology, attachment, and social support, which emphasize that positive child development is promoted by nurturing, empathetic parenting and is influenced by the characteristics of families and social networks.25 (pp1 - 9), 26 The home visitor was to use the curriculum in weekly home visits with the teenager to teach and model nurturing parenting behaviors, encourage the teenager to continue with her education, make general assessments of health and social problems, and initiate referral for early intervention when necessary.
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