Sentences with phrase «in mechanistic terms»

Neuroscientists usually explain color illusions in mechanistic terms: They arise because of the way cells in the retina and the brain respond to certain wavelengths of light.

Also, any event in nature, that is not explicable in mechanistic terms, is clearly supernatural.

Science should, and indeed does, talk about a real natural world, but we are arguing that the assumption that it is best described as matter, and in mechanistic terms, is incorrect.

Not exact matches

It can not be explained in mechanistic or more broadly deterministic terms as the outcome of the causality of the past.

Reference to non-physical causation does not resonate harmoniously with mechanistic biology which attempts to explain life in terms of specifiable chemical components and physical forces.

A preference for atomicity (explanation in terms of amino and nucleic acids) prescribes the method for molecular biology; and a persistent materialism hovers over the essentially anti- mechanistic physics of this century.

In terms of the physical as «matter,» the biological entities could, however, not be fundamentally different in nature from their material constituents; that is, biological entities are intelligible purely in terms of their chemical constituents, which in turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely mechanistic termIn terms of the physical as «matter,» the biological entities could, however, not be fundamentally different in nature from their material constituents; that is, biological entities are intelligible purely in terms of their chemical constituents, which in turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely mechanistic termin nature from their material constituents; that is, biological entities are intelligible purely in terms of their chemical constituents, which in turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely mechanistic termin terms of their chemical constituents, which in turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely mechanistic termin turn are reducible to their «physical» constituents, which is to say that biological entities are basically intelligible in purely mechanistic termin purely mechanistic terms.

Nor does it view the world in mechanistic or materialistic terms.

All the examples I have given of self - organization in biology are explained by biologists in strictly mechanistic terms, complex though these mechanisms usually are.

A mechanistic brain physiologist thinks of the brain in terms of the circuits in a complex computer.

A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.

A mechanistic ecologist would seem to be a contradiction in terms.

The mechanistic modelling, treatment of people as resources, obsession with the short - term, and management by targets in the public sector are all symptoms of the sick ideology that has driven management culture, which Simon brilliantly dissected.

I moved here six years ago because biomedical research had allowed us to think about disease in very mechanistic terms and the rationality of the design of medications to treat diseases.

First of all, in terms of mechanistic details — the stuff I'm working on — there will be a huge amount of progress.

In light of these realizations, the long - term scientific goal of the program is to develop a detailed and mechanistic understanding of not just the tumor cell and tumor mutations, but also all the components of the host microenvironment that influence cancer and the response to cancer therapy.

Dr. Cole's project, «Mechanistic Derivation of Germ Line Mutation by Genome - Wide Mouse Tetrad Analysis,» will help define the global patterns of de novo germ line mutations and the frequencies at which such mutations occur in mice, with the long term goal of understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying germ line mutagenesis and developing strategies to prevent or treat disorders caused by such mutations.

One eight - month IER trial in obesity - prone rats reported an increase in theproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), with no clear mechanistic explanations.26 Another trial, this time over six months, showed that IER - fed rats displayed marked reductions in diastolic compliance and cardiac reserve due to observed reductions in cardiomyocyte size and increased myocardial fibrosis.23 No human trials to date have reported any adverse effects on cardiovascular health during long - term IER.

Its full narrative includes: the coupling multi-century climate — cosmogenic nuclides increasingly detected, the way this coupling is not just a matter of climate - dependent nuclides transport and deposition, the way ocean lag disqualifies flagship narratives about recent shorter - term modelling purportedly ruling this out, and, the way a 20th century grand maximum would call for a mechanistic incorporation of all this in 20th century understanding / modelling — only, the mechanism (UV or GCR - clouds, probably the former) has not been well enough understood yet.