Sentences with phrase «in social organisms»

Currently, I work on three directions: (1) cell motility and the cytoskeleton, (2) modeling of physiology and diseases (such as autoimmune diabetes), and (3) swarming and aggregation behaviour in social organisms.
We see Nature combining molecules and cells in the living body to construct separate individuals, and the same Nature, stubbornly pursuing the same course but on a higher level, combining individuals in social organisms to obtain a higher order of psychic results.

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According to the Oxford research, companies that ply in fine arts, originality, negotiation, persuasion, social perceptiveness and assisting or caring for others are in the least danger of being overtaken by Schwarzenegger - like T - 800 cybernetic organisms.
Luckett, who co-wrote The Social Organism with Michael J. Casey in 2016 and co-founded theAudience with Facebook's founding president Sean Parker, says: «I'm not at all a fan of Facebook.
To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.
In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»
The school of social functionalism examines the ways in which society, considered as an organism, attempts to contain and manage conflict, integrating disparate members and subgroups into the whole.
Highly evolved organisms of a social species who have outdone their already remarkably intelligent primate relatives in intelligence and complexity of social structure.
Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.
It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.
Once the exceptional, but fundamentally biological, nature of the collective human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred in the dimensions in which we are working) from treating as authentic organs the diverse social organisms which have gradually evolved in the course of the history of the human race.
Thus animals for the most part have little or no social organization, and in this respect may be likened to single - celled organisms.
Within this social organism there would arise «a spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another».5 This super-consciousness would evolve in the same way that personal consciousness does within the complex physiology of the human organism.
«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.
Which amounts to saying that the complexification of Matter, at the point it has now reached in the human social organism, is physically incapable of advancing further if the Mind does not play a part, not only with its capacity for technical organization, but with its purposive and affective powers of arrangement and inner tension.
Upon an imaginary earth of constantly increasing extent, living organisms, being only loosely associated, might well remain at the mono - cellular stage (if indeed they got so far); and certainly Man, if free to live in a scattered state, would never have reached even the neolithic stage of social development.
But the decisive stages of this evolution are just those in which, beyond a new and purely «social» organization, there emerges the constitution of organisms that, on a higher level from that of the unities they have integrated, can again count as true unitary beings.
This Christendom was such a living, complex unity that it could be likened to an organism, in the way any healthy homogeneous society can be called a social organism.
The Church is neither an Epi - nor a Para-phenomenon in the growth of the Human Social Organism, but constitutes the very Axis (or Nucleus) about which it Forms
d The Christian phylum is not an accessory or divergent shoot in the human social organism, but constitutes the axis itself of socialization.
that this added energy, when it is made available to the human social organism, can only be usefully and effectively employed in one way: it must be transformed into research and creative work.
The progression from each stage to the next involves a process «of increasing differentiation and complexity of organization that endows the organism, social system, or whatever the unit in question may be with greater capacity to adapt to its environment than... its less complex ancestors.
In order to forestall objections to his social - organic theory, Hartshorne states that an electron or some similar ultimate particle may still be an organism even though it has no parts.
When we pass to the next higher step in the biologic hierarchy, the social organism, we at once perceive a difficulty.
That still happens, but it's diffused around the globe in ways that are difficult to see as part of an evolving, healthy social organism (not that American industrialization was trouble free!).
It deals with self - regulating, self - controlling, and self - correcting processes in machines, biological organisms, and social organizations.
It will resemble a healthy organism, where each part has its appointed share in the social enterprise.
In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.
In governance we strive to apply Rudolf Steiner's concept of the threefold social organism which meets the different qualities and requirements of the economic, legal, and cultural spheres.
[211] In coordination with institutional organisms, researchers are also studying the social impact of brestfeeding throughout history.
A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.
«DNA methylation is potentially a way through which social dominance is regulated in many social organisms, including people,» Fernald said.
«Our hypothesis is that interferon gamma might have evolved as an efficient way to control the anti-pathogen response when organisms are social,» says Tony Filiano, a postdoctoral associate in Kipnis» lab.
Social animals succeed in nature because they have unique and powerful group traits that individual organisms can't have.
The colonies of most ant species, including the harvester, are social, cooperative, seamless organisms, differing from what we think of as an individual organism only in that «they're not stuck together,» as Tschinkel puts it.
Qaim, of the University of Göttingen in Germany, has been studying the social and financial impacts of genetically modified organisms for years.
And anything that focuses on a higher level of interaction between social organisms, or involves the mind in any way (psychology, sociology) goes into SOCIAL SCsocial organisms, or involves the mind in any way (psychology, sociology) goes into SOCIAL SCSOCIAL SCIENCE.
Instead, an organism is always motivated to engage in behaviors that maximize its genetic fitnesses in an environmental and social context.
193/6: 30 The hunt for rare disease diagnosis: Utilization of social media, model organisms, and pathway analysis in pediatric exome sequencing.
For instance, in the case of the animal level containing bi-dimensional or even single dimensional organisms, the social level, which is the level of animal coexistence, can only feed on the energy coming from their physical or physical - emotional level of interactions.
«In man, social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluiIn man, social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluiin the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.
The statement, taken in context, refers to Joseph Beuys» belief in the potential of art and creativity to enable the fruition of his utopian vision, a social organism as a work of art.
Anyone wanting to understand the human organism as climate participant had better be willing to get dirty in the social sciences.
If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
With my ability to genetically modify organisms to make new products on different scales, and exceptional insight into examining the social and ethical concerns raised by communities, I can easily represent your organization behind the scenes, and in front.
Meanwhile, the brain's regulatory networks seek to maintain the organism in an organized and well - regulated mid-range comfort zone, and there are a variety of brain systems that act to maintain the integrated regulation of our emotions, behavior, and social relationships.
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