Not exact matches
The
human brain and natural intelligence are far from being understood, and without that fundamental knowledge
coming first, it will likely be impossible to create a truly
thinking machine, they say.
While it's auto and I
came from entertainment, I
think there's so much similarity, because I am trying to tell a story and make that
human connection.
Kurzweil, whose new book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of
Human Thought Revealed,
comes out next month, believes this will start to happen around 2045.
As
humans, we crave talking about ourselves — about 40 percent of what
comes out of our mouths is devoted to telling others about our
thoughts and feelings — and it's way more satisfying to showcase the exhilarating moments than it is the countless mundane ones.
But when it
comes to
human behavior and
thinking differently about a certain set of widely acknowledged facts, there can be an edge.
I
think it is difficult to know where the next crisis will
come from, and, in general, it is better to have a system that is safe from errors in judgment and surprise than it is to try and avoid errors in judgment and surprises because as along as you are dealing with
human beings, there will be errors and surprises.
There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real,
human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that
comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American
thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.
I actually had someone who
came back to me and said she
thought about it, and she believes that animals evolve, but
humans can't have evolved.
We have been chasing our tails for a long time when it
comes to self - knowledge, and the whole
human / non-
human distinction evades us, especially when we are attempting to be «objective,» because we tend to
think that true objectivity is possible and even desirable, when in fact true objectivity doesn't exist.
A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you
think we
came from), and the
human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.
Applying metaphor from creativity within the
human psyche, he illustrated how each step along the route from the primal
thought of being to the mundane activity of this world is an artificial leap from what
came before.
well if i had a theory and later found it to not be ture and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true and further more i would like to
think that me and all other
humans are better than
coming from an animal that eats bugs off its friends and throws its own poo... I'm just saying
You know, when I
think about «empire» — Roman or Egyptian or Chinese or Russian or American — and consider both accomplishments and damage inflicted (
human and otherwise), and then
think about what Christianity might have to say on the subject, the first thing that
comes to mind is «to whom much has been given, from him much will be required.»
I don't
think ANY God would sanction or suggest harm
come to another of his
human beings on earth in his name.
ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to
human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I
think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors
came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.
It is
thought that one of the purposes of the sons of God in having children with the daughters of men was to pollute the
human race so that the Seed of Eve could not
come and crush the serpent's head (Gen 3:15).
As long as it was assumed that the world that originally
came into being was much like our present world, with
human beings
coming into existence abruptly in their present form, it was hard to
think of origins in terms of chance and necessity.
This
coming - of - age book set in Alabama is a must - read for every
human, I
think — we witness justice, inequality, strength, character, community, and tragedy through the eyes of a young girl.
Let us
think instead about how a moment of
human experience
comes into being.
The eschatological vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian
thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of
human effort, has
come to be regarded as illusion.
We shall
come back again and again to the same crooked
human thinking: If God can use anything, I can do anything.
Religious leaders and pastors also
come in for some gentle chiding from Wuthnow, who
thinks they hold views about
human action and social change that are simplistic and individualistic.
I have often
thought, particularly when working in the diocesan marriage tribunal, that our acknowledgement of the fact of Original Sin gives us such a head start when it
comes to understanding
human nature, and why people act the way they do.
If you would
think, you could
come to the conclusion that the
human perspective of the universe could very well be likened to the perspective of bacteria in a petrie dish.
Yet you somehow
think that this is preferable to
humans coming together and working out the best we can how we can all live with each other.
Within the extremely narrow sliver of time when
human beings have occupied centre - stage on world history, why is it that this issue has
come to dominate our
thoughts and actions?
Religious people speak of God when
human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to
think)
come to an end, or when
human resources fall — in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in
human failure — always, that is to say, exploiting
human weakness or
human boundaries.11
thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before
human beings
came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who
thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.
In the case of the doctrine of revelation and inspiration the shift meant that the Bible and its teachings
came to be viewed as the product of
human cultural experience, time conditioned and relative in authority, and certainly not a suitable cognitive guide to
thinking persons today.
Our Western culture, in fact, is primarily «left hemispheric» in its application of rational
thinking to almost every facet of
human existence: science, economics, politics, education, religion, law (the French word for law, droit,
comes from «right hand,» the hand that rules and is controlled by the left hemisphere).
Finally, when it
comes to the evolution of
human, I
think that Mark Twain had it right when he said that apes are descended from man.
Bill, I feel sorry for you, you being a scientist and yet unable to create anything close to a
human, or a constellation system, or a brain to
think really logically with is amazing to me... if you want to believe that there was a big explosion somewhere in the universe beyond this world and that is how you
came to be you can keep that theory but don't tell parents what to do with there children.
Coontz does not go that far, but she does
think that marriage is being disestablished; it is
coming to be only one among several ways to organize
human sexuality.
Engaging in this kind of
thought experiment is great, because it forces us to
think about the physicality of the
coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of
human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.
I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's vision of
human life in relation to God, and I
think there are very few indeed who have managed as well as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created life, and a sense of the pain and anguish that
come when that life is fully redirected to the One from whom it
comes.
Many of those who heard Him speak of it were accustomed to
think of the Kingdom of God as that which would
come at long last, when all the highest
human hopes would reach fulfillment, and God's purpose for man would be achieved.
While I find this situation as intolerable as any right
thinking human being should, I find it interesting that when the victim is Christian so many Christians
come out of the wood work.
Cobb confesses that changes have
come about in his
thoughts of the linear view of
human progress, the rise of feminism and his critique of existentialism.
His
thought developed over the years and he
came to see an increasing place for
human co-operation with the initiatives of God.
John also said that Jesus became what we are so we might become more of who He is, but even in this case I
think it refers to He
came to show us how we can be
human truly in a great way!
The demand for consistency thus points to the
human need for some universal basis for the assessment of
thought — a demand that
comes with the force of a moral obligation.
Really significant direct insights into
human nature
come from the engineering analysis and simulation of the processes of
human thought.
And now I
come to my second question: How adequately have Bultmann and Ogden assessed the capacities of
human thought in dealing with the realities of faith?
In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of
human beings actually
come to
think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.
His religious difficulty
came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by
human hands and
thought by
human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.
His doctrine of two separate substances, extended matter and
thinking mind, each sort of substance requiring, with God bracketed out of the picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively
human being, out of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task of trying to figure out how a mind outside of nature, a mind not of nature, could ever really
come to know nature.
Some Jewish thinkers became so Hellenised that they
came to regard the heavenly bliss of a spiritual soul as a much more worthy expression of
human destiny than the
thought of an endless life in a material body.
There is only one God...
human imagine or uses their
thoughts to
come up with multiple Gods... which i
think is lake of understanding about the definition of God... i also
think the reason we see this is mostly because the teaching of these faiths are showing God as an old dude with white long beard and extended hands... its all
human imaginations...
Revolutionary as much of this was in the history of
human thinking, yet, in surveying it, one is conscious of a certain impatience to get on to the basic problem that confronts us in this discussion: What were the processes of
thought by which Israel
came to such views?
While admittedly of
human origins, it has
come to be
thought of as authoritative also, in the expression of religious faith, and of very high value in the teaching of religion and morals.