Sentences with phrase «human consciousness shapes»

Eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes not only the present but the past as well

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Hans Urs von Balthasar has insightfully traced the ways in which the identification of God, creation, and human consciousness strongly shaped both the theistic and atheistic streams of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Romanticism.

This new consciousness has begun to shape an emerging yet coherent view of an interconnected world, where humans are inextricably linked to one another, whether we like it or not, and where all are connected to and dependent on the natural world in which we all live.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

His consciousness is «the theoretical shape of that which the living shape is the real community «11 There is a mutual causality between the human person and society.

And it is within this cone, newly shaped in our consciousness, in terms of it and in accordance with its requirements, that we must look to see how the transposition of all human values is irresistibly proceeding.

Chastened by our new awareness of the historicity, relativity, and linguistic constraints that shape all modes of human experience and consciousness, we may nonetheless attempt here to demonstrate that there already exists, even in the consciousness of skeptics and critics of revelation, a natural and ineradicable experience of the fact that reality at its core has the character of consistency and «fidelity» that emerges explicitly in the self - revelation of a promising God.

The social aim of education is the shaping of the human person and this occurs not simply in freeing human consciousness from «tradition,» but in shaping and orienting it toward societal goods.

So that finally (the point can not be too strongly stressed) a new impulse becomes possible and is now beginning to take shape in human consciousness.

It may be that the later alienation of young adults from the redemptive tradition is, in some degree, due to this inability to communicate to the child a spirituality grounded more deeply in creation dynamics in accord with the modem way of experiencing the galactic emergence of the universe, the shaping of the earth, the appearance of life and of human consciousness, and the historical sequence in human development.

In order to compensate for this deficiency our human consciousness has searched for and has been shaped by an alternative mode of expression, the symbolic, in order to open us further to the intrinsic reality of things, namely to their importance.

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.

The concept of anthropomorphism is extended to the material consciousness that remains in the cell of each hide as it moulds to the shape of a ghostly human figure, presenting a liminal boundary between humans and the animal kingdom.

Faring lists her time in Italy, her experiences as a child in Paris, and all the nomading her family did when she was growing as integral in shaping the largest chunk of her visions as a contemporary artist, namely the fundamentals of human consciousness, interconnectedness, and soul.