Sentences with phrase «mindless matter»

«The philosophical question that has not been answered in origin - of - life studies is this: How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self - replication capabilities, and «coded chemistry»?

In most eases, however, there is no indication of any mind and the objective world thus seems to consist largely of mindless matter.

«25 In other words, the assumption that modern science has revealed or demonstrated that the universe is fundamentally composed of dead or mindless matter in purely mechanical motion is completely unwarranted and gratuitous.

At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied mind but, at least in man, in an association of body and soul.

If you want to say that God doesn't exist and we're just chemical reactions, neurons firing randomly, or mindless matter... then back up your argument that way.

Plato would have loved to take this position and get rid of the supposed lifeless, inert, unfree, mindless matter.

Kant's theory of Erscheinung completely hiding was erscheint is a myth we need to get rid of, along with the idea of mere mindless matter, which is also a myth.

Mind and body, yes, mind and in some cases mindless matter, that is the problem.

Not exact matches

Heres a headline for you - CNN decides to stop promoting mindless religious oriented fluff pieces in their key news stories, and instead reports on things that actually matter in the world.

And we begin to discover that matter, although mindless itself, is the product of a Mind of infinite profundity and infinite simplicity.

On the contrary, the concept that the universe is the product of a rational mind provides a far better metaphysical basis for scientific rationality than the competing concept that everything in the universe (including our minds) is ultimately based in the mindless movements of matter.

Again Hartshorne, having conceded that, relatively speaking, molecules are mindless, denies that they (or their constituents) are totally lacking in experience and continues: «the panpsychist... further will not admit that the lower degrees of awareness are due to the dilution of mind by its mixture with increasing doses of another something, matter» (BH 170).

The universe is composed of mindless chunks of matter with no intelligible explanation, originating by chance, moving in no particular direction, and fulfilling no inherent purpose.

What is truly a miracle, in the pejorative sense of an event having no rational connection with what has gone before, is the emergence of a being with consciousness, free will, and a capacity to understand the laws of nature in a universe which in the beginning contained only matter in mindless motion.

If his declaration precluded the enthusiastic patriotism of the old Prussian «union of throne and altar» or the mindless nationalism of the pro-Nazi «German Christians,» it was nonetheless susceptible to interpretation along classical Lutheran lines, in which the secular ruler is entitled to obedience in everything except matters of faith, which may be interpreted in such a way that they take up very little space indeed.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

mindless zombies — not knowing what to do - because nothing matters.

Why do mindless chunks of matter not qualify for being the ultimate «concrete» constituents of nature?

It is also true, though, that dualism still lurks behind the dominant contemporary philosophies of nature in which matter remains essentially mindless and lifeless.

No one could, for instance, no matter how fine his eyesight or physical coordination, hit a major - league pitch with a cylindrical bat if there were not some prior attunement on his part to the subtle spiritual force that flows through all things, a sort of Zen cultivation of the mindless mind, in which the impossible is accomplished because it somehow simply accomplishes itself in us.

Modern science has developed in the main under the concept that nonliving matter is wholly mindless and is subject to completely deterministic laws of nature.

The Royals looked like they had come for a point by sitting very deep with very little attacking threat but when David Edwards was sent off for a second bookable offence for what looked a mindless foul it was just a matter of time for the home side.

Exactly, in the world of midwives CPMs are definitely the mindless drones adhering to NBC philosophy no matter who it kills.

It doesn't help matters that the big finale is yet another mindless fight scene where all the characters do battle in order to wrap up the story quickly.

We know the subject matter is huge robots thumping other huge robots, but it doesn't have to be as mindless as this.

It's popular sport to call American moviegoers «sheep» and «mindless,» but it's been proven over and over that no matter how many horses you get to the watering hole, you can't make them drink twice if it's swill.

Written by the late Harold Raimis, Animal House captures all of the excessive, mindless fun of college in a memento that never becomes any less funny or nostalgic, no matter how many times you rewatch it.

Of the many teachers in our public schools, who have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters» minds, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by high - stakes tests.

The mindless comparisons to index funds make matters worse.

Third, its still an arcade, no recoil, mindless shooter, and no matter how good people think it is, it has no single player and introduces nothing revolutionary.

Armos belong to that class of Zelda enemies that not only can not be defeated with a mindless sword strike, no matter how aggressive you are, but actually differ in exactly how to defeat them depending on the game.

The basis for [Bodine's] argument appears to be that most lawyers don't use Twitter and that 40 % of the discussion on Twitter is mindless - as if the conversation among lawyers and local business leaders in the country club on men's golf day is that of complex legal matters.

Our work load and the importance of the matters we work on have taught us to work efficiently without hordes of associates doing mindless tasks, have allowed our youngest lawyers to gain experience far beyond their years in taking significant responsibility for our clients» matters, and have taught us to embrace technology that enhances our efficiency.