Sentences with phrase «human cognition as»

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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.

This revelation is natural, in the sense that it is part and parcel of both the creation and human nature, and it is general, inasmuch as it is a functional component in all human perception and cognition.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

I. David Pierce, in his doctoral dissertation on cognition and theology, found that a sample of theologically liberal women were less inclined to use polar dimensions — such as «human effort» versus «divine power» or «instrumental» versus «relational» «-- than either a sample of men or a sample of theologically moderate or conservative women.

Furthermore, human sense perception is only to be understood as a condition of the possibility of intellectual cognition, posited by spirit in contradistinction to itself but for itself, and consequently once again affirms the kinship of spirit and matter.

«10 But the question of consciousness can of course not be dismissed when the philosophical stance is that of oneself as a human knower; and if cognitive consciousness is always the result of processing an input, as it appears to be with Kant's doctrine of synthesis, consciousness of the input can not be a cognition of reality.

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....

But at the same time, rightly enough, it would be insisted that Whitehead's immediate experience can not be conflated with Bradley's; for in Whitehead, immediate experience operates as foundational only within the limited area of animal or human cognition and can not, as in Bradley's idealist metaphysic, be identified with the substratum itself.

The concept of cognition is closely related to such abstract concepts as mind, reasoning, perception, intelligence, learning, and many others that describe numerous capabilities of human mind and expected properties of artificial or synthetic intelligence.

Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and cognition, «genetically identical» does not mean altogether identical; almost no one would deny that identical twins, despite being natural human clones with identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities.

Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be made and programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.

«Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture,» says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University.

The idea of God (or gods) also served in ancient times as a way to apply the clan - centric cognition of the human species to the problem of comprehending the dynamics of the world.

However, the greater theory serves as something of a distraction from some of Hameroff's ideas: that quantum physics might play a non-trivial role in human cognition and consciousness, and that microtubules — activity inside the neuron — could house these quantum happenings.

Although linguists have long believed that counting and having words for numbers are basic, if not innate, to human cognition, the Pirahã people in Brazil have no words to express numerical concepts such as «one,» «two,» or «many.»

Robots themselves might soon be endowed with traditional human attributes such as cognition and emotional intelligence, allowing them to mimic the most complex human activities.

But it works well as it is, so we are also thinking of building a more complex system with such spin - memristors to test actual algorithms for specific cognition capabilities of the human brain.»

The study helps explain a distinctly human mechanism of cognition, said the lead researchers at Brown University, and could be applied to studying and treating reward - seeking or punishment - avoidance conditions such as addiction or obsessive - compulsive disorder.

In humans, the cerebellum's extensive connectivity with the rest of the brain suggests it does far more than learn motor skills: it has been shown to have a part in both perception and cognition, with recent work linking cerebellar dysfunction to such complex diseases as schizophrenia and autism.

From the psychology and neuroscience around play, creativity, dreaming and sleep, we can as easily derive a picture of human cognition that doesn't recoil from the buzzing, blooming demands of everyday life, but exults in using imagination, stories, abstraction and metaphor to comprehend the world.

Music Cognition scientist Fleur Bouwer discovered that the sense of rhythm — also known as the beat — is so fundamental to humans that we recognise patterns in music even without paying any attention or receiving any training.

The results suggest that as human cognition evolved, the types and amounts of fat in key brain areas were rapidly shifting and mutating — and this growth was crucial to the development of our complex abilities.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

Comparisons of primate brains can therefore reveal differences that may prove relevant for disease therapeutics, as well as gaining a better understanding of human cognition and behavior and what makes us unique among other primates.

As they stack up, the brain uses rapid cognition to assess the humanity, threat, and worth of other human beings.

Dr. Clive Wynne will be discussing all aspects of the research being carried at the Canine Science Collaboratory, including research in social reinforcement, odor discrimination in learning and the effects of odor on behavior, as well as gesture studies Canine cognition, domestic dogs and human gestures, domestic dogs, human speech and more.

Abstract: Cognition in dogs, as in humans, refers to the mental experiences (thoughts) and cognitive level refers to mental capabilities.

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Zachary Davis is concerned with the limits and difficulties of human cognition, evolved long ago as a «learning and pattern recognition machine.»

Some degree of fear is rather normal given the way humans approach risk, particularly with something like the risks from radiation, and particularly given inherent trust that comes from for - profit overlay onto the «common good» and (IMO) laying that fear exclusively at the feet of environmentalists, or simply labeling it as irrational, is more a product of ideologically - driven identity - protective cognition and tribalism on the part of nuclear proponents than a useful ingredient for making progress on energy policy development.

I think you're exactly right that the impacts of highlighting geoengineering demonstrate the validity to cultural cognition as an explanation of human psychology.

Other theorists, such as Lev Vygotsky, have regarded social cognition, or knowledge about people and social processes, as fundamental to human development.