Sentences with phrase «limited human senses»

The technology is a gentle reminder of how limited human senses are at interpreting the characteristics of the nature of reality in the Universe.

Not exact matches

The NTSB also recommended that manufacturers should limit (and NHTSA should verify that they have limited) the use of automated driving systems to appropriate circumstances, and develop systems to more effectively sense a human driver's level of engagement and alert the driver when automated driving systems are in use and the driver is inattentive.

It should limit Autopilot's operation only to those conditions, and have a far more effective system to sense, verify, and safely react when the human driver's level of engagement in the driving task is insufficient or when the driver fails to react to warnings.

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

What sets Lutherans apart is the sense of the impassable limits of human existence, a metaphysical reservation that the restless modern temper contradicts at every turn.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

I am aware that Article 19 of the UN's Declaration of Human Rights refers to freedom of information in a more limited sense, 2.

To begin with, because human beings possess highly developed faculties of reason, language, and memory, a man's sense of what is «his» is not limited to himself, his family, or even those with whom he regularly interacts.

Hartshorne is not alone in this view Mary Anne Warren refers to a human being in a moral sense as «a full - fledged member of the moral community» whose traits include, but are not limited to, consciousness and the ability to reason.

In addition to his sense of the sacred, Camus's sense of the limits of human reason and justice is worthy of serious attention for its incipient natural law approach combined with a sober prudence about how far even the best human intentions can be trusted.

But this statement makes no sense, unless there is some way of finding out within the limits of human fallibility that there are times when we do not make a mistake.

This trend achieves its fullest expression, so far as the New Testament is concerned, in the Fourth Gospel, where a divine being is represented as becoming human, but without in any sense ceasing to be divine, and is carried to its extreme limits in the heretical teachings of the Docetists, who denied the reality of Jesus» humanity altogether.

First it requires us to find and describe what Tillich called the «boundary situations,» that is, those points where modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense they are alienated from society and other people, or feel a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and having no worth.2.

One can dispute with a man, dispute to the furthest limit, as long as one assumes, that in the end there is a point in common, an agreement in some universal human sense: in self - respect.

Perhaps the pivotal point of relation between higher learning and religion lies somewhere between the deepest human sense of the limits of our knowing and the cultivation, in the midst of such chastening wisdom, of the spiritual virtue of hope.

The moral standard of human security tends to receive a limited interpretation in the individualistic legal and biological sense.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

In some respects it did worse than ignore, actually celebrating human exploitation of nature with no sense of limits.

There is but a short time between birth and death, and from the very limited nature of my particular historical and social context I can discover, like every human being, a sense of the ultimate worth of it all.

First, it requires exploring with people what theologian Paul Tillich called the «boundary situations,» those points at which modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and worthless.

We need a renewed sense of the mystery of the human person and the limits to our own efforts at shaping and transforming character.

-LRB-...) transhumanism suffers from a Nietzschean utopianism that lacks common sense, because it ignores the ways in which the technologies for altering human traits are limited in both their technical means and their moral ends.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

The character, who has been around since the»60s, initially possessed superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, flight, physical durability, a limited precognitive «sixth sense», and a perfectly amalgamated human / Kree physiology that rendered her resistant to most toxins and poisons, with the added effect of making her body virtually invulnerable and indestructible.

Although there has been a limited number of research done, the idea that female dogs who have had puppies will actively try to teach a human baby how to behave like a dog and in that sense will nip lightly at the nape of the neck or hands and feet if they do something that is considered «bad behavior».

You probably already know that animals can assess situations in the blink of an eye, while we — human beings limited by our primitive senses — will take several minutes.

Visitors to this remarkable exhibition will develop a sense of curiosity and agency, and cull meaning from systems and trends that lie at the limits of human comprehension.

Yet Stella's outsize gestures comport with a very human sense of his limits.

If there is a probability that humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge, one that takes its astounding shape from overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species, then would reason and common sense not suggest that the human community could move forward by limiting increases in certain global activities, the ones now overspreading the surface of Earth.

My purpose has long been to help people make sense of the momentous environmental and social changes under way on this «pale blue dot» called Earth, the forces behind those changes, and what policies and practices can foster human progress while limiting regrets.

But there's never been a greater chance, through collaboration and communication, to imbue our varied human journeys with a shared sense of priorities — including the importance of conserving Earth's biological bounty, spreading the gifts that come with access to information and safe sources of energy, and limiting the scope of human - driven climate change.

In that sense, we need to limit many humans now so that humans in the future (and really not so distant future) will not be limited beyond any ability to live, or to live any marginally decent life.

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Today, the adherents of the mainstream religions typically use modern family planning to limit their family size and accept that limiting human numbers makes sense.

I have some romanticized sense that being human involves not simply living within limits but cherishing boundaries.

In Nova Scotia, MacLean explains, «human rights legislation takes precedence in the sense that it is not limited by the application of any other act.»