Sentences with phrase «human sciences such»

Science in the 21st century, even in the human sciences such as my own discipline of psychology, requires mastery of rapidly changing technologies.

Not exact matches

One of the best ways to prevent artificial intelligence from harming humans might be to shape the concept of AI in such a way that harm seems antithetical to the definition of the technology, University of California - Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell suggested.

As humans embraced science you see, they learned things, such as the fact that lightning is not caused by a lightning god, thunder not by the thunder god, the sun is not a god, on and on.

Such human «mindfulness» should be reflected upon in order to understand what the success of science means, and, as a result, in discerning an absolute Mind to be worshipped.

In this vast cosmos, such as science knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gone.

By observing of the world stage on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science, yet such corruption of human character, it only points to the fact that the time for the «man of sin» is at hand and his army is being prepared, for time of his arrival.

As such, and since the God of Islam is the same God of Christianity and Judaism (according to the Quran that just been certified), Christianity and Judaism are true religions of God with text that has been corrupted (another reason you find contradictions with science because ordinary humans changed the word of God so you can see the flaws in it).

We must remember that Whitehead is not a metaphysician seeking to describe the ultimate facts of existence (so WM 17 - 20), but a realist philosopher of science remarking on uniquely human matters such as perception and freedom.

While you may scoff at trying to form a personal relationship with any large cosmic force greater than yourself, thinking them innate stardust whose signals can not even propagate fast enough for such communication, others marvel it's effectiveness and capable mechanisms which remain out of reach for human science at present.

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

In the course of history such assumptions have changed — at least partially in response to changes in science, though also in response to changing views of other area of human experience.

Fr Coyne thus risks confusing the complementarity of the distinct realms of determinism and freedom; this complementarity is inherent to human, self - conscious, creative engagement with our deterministic environment - an engagement which modern science exemplifies in such an important way.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

Of course, it is possible to reply that the alleged stumbling block occurs every day according to Christian teaching, because what here in the case of the first human being is felt to be contrary to the fundamental conceptions of metaphysics and the methodological basis of natural science, happens continually at the origin of every individual human soul, at the genesis of every single human being, for such souls equally with those of the first human beings, are created by God directly out of nothing.

Nothing gets «proven» as it does in the hard sciences (and there is good reason to say that science doesn't actually «prove» nor does it claim to), but in more complicated systems, such as social, human ones, proof is very difficult (why should we not expect it to be so in theology also?).

Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The human race is passing from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.

In the theology of Karl Barth, for example even though scientific discoveries are affirmed within the realm proper to science, the only way to know God is through God's free decision to reveal herself / himself in Jesus Christ; any other way of attempting to know God, such as through the exercise of human reason, of which science is an example, is pretentious idolatry on the part of humans trying to play God.

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

A socio - biologist can tell a young woman on the best scientific authority that nature designed her, body and mind, to conceive, bear and care for children, but it he can not tell her in the name of science that in so doing she will fulfill her human possibilities, and he can not answer her when she declares war on such natural necessities.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

But in such an analysis would any sane person consider that science had done anything whatever to explain the music, to give the slightest clue to its effect upon human emotional experience, still less to explain why one piece of music should be great and the other mediocre?

Mathews claimed: «Science discloses a universe of activity characterized by traits so analogous to what we call reason and purpose in human beings, as to be unintelligible unless such qualities are recognized» (CSR 397).

Finally, the credibility of science itself has been shown — once again, and as if we needed a reminder — to be subject to such ordinary human failings as ego defense, the willingness to bend the truth rather than admit error, and the temptation to disparage and insult one's opponents.

According to Dennett, these Martian anthropologists would then discover that human behavior in fact displays no such intersubjectivity of its own either: Everything the Martians see in the way humans act can be explained by the standard norms of their science, and since they are missing that extra mental stuff, why assume humans have it either?

By observing the world stage of today and placing it according to the Scriptures on God's timeline, with all the man's advancements in tech and science we're witnessing today, and yet, seeing such corruption of human character....

For serious laborers in the vineyard of the human sciences understand that all social phenomena have very complex roots» they are, as we say, overdetermined» and it takes skill, real acumen, an eye both for detail and the big picture, and, above all, intellectual honesty to explore such matters.

Because association is indispensible to an understanding of the achievement of the best of human possibilities, such as art, science, philosophy, religion, society.

Nevertheless, the layman's common - sense view of reality is baffled by such conundrums as the nature of time and space, the reality of human freedom, quantum jumps in physics, or the claim of modern science that colors are not really present in the objects of perception but only in the mind of the beholder.

The reason for this blindness of physical science lies in the fact that such science only deals with half the evidence provided by human experience.

Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.

If imagination plays such a vital role even in such sciences as physics and astronomy, where man can so clearly be an objective spectator, how much more must man depend upon his imagination when seeking to understand the questions of human existence, in which he is at the same time an active participant.

Science in the Quinean sense may make use of such generalizations, and it is a tremendously important human epistemic activity.

The reason for this blindness in physical science lies in the fact that such science deals with half the evidence provided by human experience.

Such philosophy will be cut off from concrete reality as observed and invite idealism - unless we perversely treat science as so different from normal human observation as virtually not to come into this category.

All three have done real science, such as head up the human genome project, unlike Dawkins who is just a popular author.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

Their education is not limited to basic breastfeeding help, but also includes the health sciences such as biology, human anatomy and physiology, infant / child growth and development, nutrition, clinical research, intensive lactation studies, and basic life support (among many others).

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.

In psychology and in artificial intelligence, it is used to refer to the mental functions, mental processes and states of intelligent entities (humans, human organizations, highly autonomous robots), with a particular focus toward the study of such mental processes as comprehension, inferencing, decision - making, planning and learning (see also cognitive science and cognitivism).

The researchers statistically corrected for such contamination, «but whether that is sufficient enough remains to be seen,» says archaeologist Katerina Douka of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

The broad spectrum of lying and the array of scientific disciplines involved in seeking to understand what drives such behaviors was explored by three experts in psychology, human memories and psychiatry during a lecture at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 10.

Jessica Wyndham, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program and coordinator of the Science and Human Rights Coalition, which launched in 2009, said such approaches empower students, improve academic outcomes and encourage interdisciplinary partnerships.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

But the drive to create virtual characters that are indistinguishable from human characters has also given rise to complex forensic and legal issues, such as the need to distinguish between computer - generated and photographic images of child pornography, says senior author Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a pioneering researcher in digital forensics at Dartmouth.

The science and human rights entries for chemistry reflect the American Chemical Society's (ACS) support for these rights and describe protocols and criteria for addressing violations of such rights.

The robots, described in the April 18 issue of Science Robotics, also showed human - like dexterity to construct the chair, suggesting that these manufacturing machines may soon be ready for use in a wider range of applications, such as aircraft manufacturing, without needing special mechanical modifications or well - organized surroundings.

Such training therefore ultimately helps us deal with current global challenges, says Anne Böckler of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science and Julius Maximilians University Würzburg in Germany.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurHuman Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurhuman brain's 100 billion neurons).

The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.