Sentences with phrase «modern human mind»

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Our laws are modern laws, created by the evolution of the human mind.

The medieval field of alchemy — the attempt to change base metals into gold and to find the philosopher's stone capable of bringing about human perfection, even immortality — is ludicrous to the modern mind, a relic of a prescientific time.

It's more important because, as Hart rightly diagnoses, the modern mind is trapped in various false dichotomies — like thinking one has to be a personal theist or an anti-theist, or that the human person is either a ghost in a machine or a machine - generating ghost — and these false dichotomies themselves make it impossible for us to think rationally about topics such as natural law.

If so, then human minds, created in the image and likeness of God, should be able to understand the world in which we find ourselves; much of the skepticism of modern society needs then to be rethought by Christians.

This presumption flatters the complacency of the modern mind, and prevents us from seeing the poverty of our current assumptions about reason, nature, and human fulfillment.

If we want to know how the mind of man, working on its own and from its own human psychology would deal and does deal with the Divine in Christ, we have it in the presentation of many modern and Rationalist thinkers.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

The universality of the human regard for those higher qualities which the Hebrew gathered up in the concept of righteousness found rational explanation best in a cosmic origin which some modern thinkers describe as a Process; but, for the Hebrew mind, that Process was personal.

The rift between the human mind and a lifeless, inert cosmos is thus widened, contributing to the modern experience of meaninglessness.

It should in fairness be said, however, that the reason for this contrast does not lie in the superiority of the modern mind but rather in the long - accumulated presuppositions with which we start and the area of human relationships within which our ideas of justice move.

Nevertheless, the layman's common - sense view of reality is baffled by such conundrums as the nature of time and space, the reality of human freedom, quantum jumps in physics, or the claim of modern science that colors are not really present in the objects of perception but only in the mind of the beholder.

The most important reason, Mahoney tells us, is Solzhenitsyn's understanding of «the permanent propensities of the modern mind»» namely, the fatal attraction to utopian ideologies and the totalitarian temptation to radically alter human nature.

Modern defenders of the cosmological argument see it as an expression of the human mind's search for intelligibility in the world.

Now I am well aware that one of our modern humanists might interrupt at this stage and say, «Now your religion, your belief in God and immortality are put up by your mind, simply because it will not face the true facts — the utter loneliness and futility of human living.»

to the «modern mind», as though the «modern mind» were something unique in human history, especially impervious to the truth of Christian Revelation in all its simplicity and joy.

In a way, it's a microcosm of modern politics which has followed the same pattern and both phenomena have to do with simple human psychology as we try to adjust our minds to the vastness of the information age.

So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.

Additionally, she peers beyond the traditional boundaries of science and explains that because of the advancements in our understanding of the universe through modern physics, religious faith is best relegated to the social and psychological dimensions of the human mind.

He and his colleagues argue that today's better understanding of the pace of evolution, human adaptability and the way the mind works all suggest that, contrary to cartoon stereotypes, modern humans are not just primitive savages struggling to make psychological sense of an alien contemporary world.

If brain size had anything to do with innovation and creativity, some scientists expected to see a link between the so - called Mind's Big Bang (the emergence of bone tools and cave paintings that occurred between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago) and the emergence of modern - size human brains.

The research team hints that the modern humans may have raped female Neanderthals, bringing to mind modern cases of «ethnic cleansing.»

It's easy to imagine the first modern humans staring up at the heavens in wonder, their eyes and minds dazzled by a beautiful band of light splashed across the night sky, the ever - changing moon so large and bright, and pinpoints of light in every direction.

Keep in mind that these massively high levels of corn, soy, and wheat in our modern human diet is a relatively new phenomenon that originated from the economics of the multi-billion dollar corn, soy, and wheat industries.

That's why modern lenders successfully combine using new technologies and human minds when it comes to giving out loans.

We have mounted important exhibitions of the works of Ant Farm, Joe Brainard, Joan Brown, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Juan Gris, Eva Hesse, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barry McGee, Richard Misrach, Bruce Nauman, Peter Paul Rubens, Martin Puryear, Sebastião Salgado, William Wiley, and many others, as well as thematic exhibitions such as Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the «50s & «60s; State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970; In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice; Human / Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet; and Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds.

Among them were exhibitions of the works of Ant Farm, Joe Brainard, Joan Brown, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Juan Gris, Eva Hesse, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barry McGee, Richard Misrach, Bruce Nauman, Peter Paul Rubens, Martin Puryear, Sebastião Salgado, William Wiley, and many others, as well as thematic exhibitions including Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the»50s &»60s; State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970; In a Different Light; Human / Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet; Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds; Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Painting; and Andrea Fraser: Aren't They Lovely?.

Autistica, the UK's leading autism research charity and Mehta Bell Projects, are pleased to announce «An Infinitely Beautiful Mind», a charity art sale and exhibition which will present the works of artists ranging from modern masters, contemporary and emerging talents through to outsider art, whose work share the desire to represent the human experience through highly detailed and laborious artistic techniques.

This paint making toolkit played a crucial role in our understanding of the evolution of the human mind, and led to the repositioning of the birthplace of modern human behaviour from Europe to Africa.

2010 3 minute wonder series, Broadcast commission, Channel 4 (27,28,29,30 Sept; 18, 19, 20, 21 Oct) 06.2010 Persistence of Vision, FACT, Liverpool, UK 05.2010 Steps into the arcane, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland 05.2010 It has to be this way ², National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen [commissioned solo show] 03.2010 Hands on, (curated by John Hilliard) Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna, Austria 02.2010 Depatterrn, Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway 10.2009 Performance, Film Weekend: The Jarman Award at KunstHalle, Zurich, Switzerland 09.2009 Performance, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK06.2009 Mostravideo, Itau Cultural Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil 02.2009 Altermodern, Fourth Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, UK 01.2009 It has to be this way, Matt's Gallery, London [commissiond solo show] 12.2008 Performance, Event Horizon, Royal Academy of Art [commissioned solo show] 06.2008 Performance, Happy Hand, British Film Institute, London, UK 10.2007 Cinemart, The Auditorium, Rome, Italy 09.2007 Foreign Bodies, White Box, New York, USA 07.2007 Swallowing Black Maria, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam [commissioned solo show] 02.2007 The Believers, Touring show to five cities in Norway, with performances in Stavanger, Forde and Bergen 09.2006 The truth was always there, The Collection, Lincoln [commissioned solo show] 07.2006 UBS Opening, Tate Modern (with Laurie Simmons, Guerilla Girls etc), UK 05.2006 Performance, Human Camera, Mali Salon, Rijeka, Croatia (solo show) 05.2006 I can't tell you, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool [commissioned solo show] 04.2006 Metropolis Rise, CQL Design Centre, Shanghai; DIAF 2006 @ 798 Space, Beijing, China 04.2006 Performance, Inside, Great Eastern Hotel, Masonic Temple, London, UK 03.2006 Performance, Don't Look Through Me, Y Theatre, Leicester, UK 03.2006 Don't look through me, City Gallery Leicester [commissioned solo show] 03.2006 Performance, Screening at Witte de With / Tent, Rotterdam, Holland 03.2006 John Skies or Sally Swims, UKS Gallery, Oslo, Norway 02.2006 Wandering Rocks, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London 11.2005 Image in Me, Market Gallery, Glasgow (solo show) 10.2005 Eyes of Others, Gallery of Photography, Dublin [commissioned solo show] 10.2005 Wunderkammer, The Collection (curated by Edward Allington), Lincoln, UK 09.2005 I saw the light, Gasworks Gallery, London [commissioned solo show] 09.2004 Adam, Smart Projects, Amsterdam, Holland 11.2004 Mind the Gap, La Friche, Triangle, Marseille, France 08.2004 Shattered Love, Keith Talent Gallery, London 04.2004 Eating at Another's Table, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone (performance / exhibition) 04.2004 Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London (curated by Paul O'Neill) 03.2004 Performance, A Variety Night of Ventriloquism, FACT, Liverpool (with Ken Campbell, Aura Satz, Andrew Hubbard) 03.2004 Mesmer, Temporarycontemporary, London 02.2004 Haunted Media, Site Gallery, Sheffield (with Susan Hiller, Susan Collins, Scanner, Thompson / Craighead, S Mark Gubb) 09.2003 The Physical World, APT, London, (with Ian Dawson, Katie Pratt) 09.2003 Sphere, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (with Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Laurie Simmons and Allan McCollum) 09.2003 You said that without moving your lips, Limerick City Gallery, Ireland (solo show) 08.2003 Calidoscopio, Museo del Barro, Asuncion, Paraguay (solo show) 04.2003 A Taste for Sham, Studio 1.1, London (with Jo Bruton, Kirsten Glass) 01.2003 The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (curated by Brian Griffiths) 09.2002 History Revision, Plymouth Arts Centre (including Terry Atkinson) 06.2002 Nausea: encounters with ugliness, London Print Studio 04.2002 Dramatic Events, Kent Institute of Art and Design 03.2002 Photoscoptocus, Camden Lock / Henley - on - Thames (Public commission) 03.2002 Nausea, Djangoly Art Centre (with Dave Burrows, Beagles and Ramsay, Margarita Gluzberg, Mark Hutchinson) 08.2001 Trinity College, Zwemmer Gallery, London 05.2001 Black Bag, Old Operating Theatre Museum (+ monograph BBC programme, «Lindsay Seers, Artist's Eye», Rory Logsdail) 03.2001 For the dead travel fast, Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery [commissioned solo show] 02.2001 Molotov, Dilston Grove Gallery, London (with Kirsten Glass, Diann Bauer, Annie Whiles, Helen Paterson, Lisa Fielding Smith) 09.2000 Tow, Camden Lock, Millennium Commission Project (with Tim Head, Diana Edmunds, Janice Howard, Zoe Brown) 10.2000 Assembly, Stepney City, London 07.2000 A Shot In The Head, Lisson Gallery, London 07.2000 Unfound, Chisenhale Gallery, London 06.2000 City Projects, Artomatic, London (with Jemima Brown, Marcel Price) 05.2000 The Double, The Lowry Centre, Salford (with Thomas Ruff, James Reilly and Alice Maher) 05.2000 On the rock, APT Gallery, London (with Annie Whiles, Diann Bauer, Kirsten Glass, Helen Paterson) 09.1999 Nerve, ICA, London (with Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed, Dave Beech, John Isaacs, John Beagles, Dave Burrows, Clive Sall) 07.1999 Quotidian, Paper Bag Factory (curated by Julia Lancaster) 06.1999 Autocannibal, Laure Genillard Gallery, London (solo show) 04.1999 Cabin Fever, Gallery Herold Bremen, Germany, (with Caroline Macarthy and Mairead Maclean) 10.1998 Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 09.1998 Cannibal, Old Museum Art Centre, Belfast (solo show) 08.1997 Knock, Knock, Artists Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 11.1996 Stick Your Hands Up, Acorn Storage, Hammersmith, London 10.1996 Ghost, ACAVA Open Studios, Denmark St, London 09.1996 Ad Hoc, London Artforms.

Using this array of media, LoVid seeks to explore the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to natural and technological environments.The duo has performed and exhibited at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Netherlands Media Art Institute; Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin; Real Art Ways, Connecticut; Urbis, UK; and The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, The Jewish Museum, New Museum, The Kitchen, and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York City.

New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., US Images of the Mind, Deutsches Hygiene - Museum, Dresden, DE The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE Space Invaders, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, CZ Celebrazione Vasariane, Firenze Arti Visive, Florence, IT Ensemble 20/21, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, ES MMK 1991 - 2011: 20 Years of the Contemporary, MMK, Frankfurt, DE Oslo Chamber Music Festival 2011 - Gamle Logen, Oslo, NO Pino Pascali: Return to Venice / Apulia Contemporary Art, Palazzo Bianchi Michiel, Venice, IT The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, US Portraits de la Pensée, Palais des Beaux - Arts de Lille, FR Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, TR The Quintet of the Unseen, Blain Southern London, UK art / tapes / 22 a Santa Teresa (1972 - 76), Forno San Ferdinando, Follonica, IT Tout ouïe, Sans Canal Fixe, Tours, FR 2011 Images and Views of Alternative Cinema, Theatro Ena, Nicosia, CY New contemporary galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, AU The Promised Land, Staatliche Kunstsmmlungen Dresden, DE Don't Look Now, Kunstmuseum Bern, CH Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form, Bellagio Gallery, Las Vegas, US Happy Tech: machines with a human face, Palazo Re Enzo (1/29 -2 / 13) & La Triennale / Bovisa, Milan, IT La Candela Festival 2011, Valls, ES The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, FR San Sebastian, una iconografia comtemporánea, Kubo - Kutxa, Donostia - San Sebastian, ES When Painting Moves... Something Must Be Rotten, Stenerson Museum, Oslo, NO Knock on wood: Tales from the forest, Virserums Konsthall, SE Space, Foundazione MAXXI, Rome, IT Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, CH When Eve Meets Adam, Museum of Fine Arts, Strasbourg, FR A Million and One Days, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, LT The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, SE Tong, Haeinsa Temple, Chiin - ri, KR Esplanade — The Recital Studio, SG Video, An Art, A History 1965 - 2010: A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections, SG Déserts (1994), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, JP Shan Shui, Beijing Center for the Arts, CN Environmental Day, ikono.tv / MELD, Television Broadcast, Arabsat: Menasa Region, Etisalat, AE Selected works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary ArHuman Form, Bellagio Gallery, Las Vegas, US Happy Tech: machines with a human face, Palazo Re Enzo (1/29 -2 / 13) & La Triennale / Bovisa, Milan, IT La Candela Festival 2011, Valls, ES The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, FR San Sebastian, una iconografia comtemporánea, Kubo - Kutxa, Donostia - San Sebastian, ES When Painting Moves... Something Must Be Rotten, Stenerson Museum, Oslo, NO Knock on wood: Tales from the forest, Virserums Konsthall, SE Space, Foundazione MAXXI, Rome, IT Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, CH When Eve Meets Adam, Museum of Fine Arts, Strasbourg, FR A Million and One Days, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, LT The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, SE Tong, Haeinsa Temple, Chiin - ri, KR Esplanade — The Recital Studio, SG Video, An Art, A History 1965 - 2010: A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections, SG Déserts (1994), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, JP Shan Shui, Beijing Center for the Arts, CN Environmental Day, ikono.tv / MELD, Television Broadcast, Arabsat: Menasa Region, Etisalat, AE Selected works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Arhuman face, Palazo Re Enzo (1/29 -2 / 13) & La Triennale / Bovisa, Milan, IT La Candela Festival 2011, Valls, ES The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, FR San Sebastian, una iconografia comtemporánea, Kubo - Kutxa, Donostia - San Sebastian, ES When Painting Moves... Something Must Be Rotten, Stenerson Museum, Oslo, NO Knock on wood: Tales from the forest, Virserums Konsthall, SE Space, Foundazione MAXXI, Rome, IT Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, CH When Eve Meets Adam, Museum of Fine Arts, Strasbourg, FR A Million and One Days, Lithuanian National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, LT The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, SE Tong, Haeinsa Temple, Chiin - ri, KR Esplanade — The Recital Studio, SG Video, An Art, A History 1965 - 2010: A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections, SG Déserts (1994), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, JP Shan Shui, Beijing Center for the Arts, CN Environmental Day, ikono.tv / MELD, Television Broadcast, Arabsat: Menasa Region, Etisalat, AE Selected works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL

For several years, his research focuses on the concept of Repair, as a constant in Human Nature, of which the modern Western Mind and the traditional extra-Occidental Thought have always had an opposite vision.

Frou - frous like those of Urs Fischer at the New Museum and Marina Abramović at the Modern, and of Dan Colen at Gagosian and Rob Pruitt at Gavin Brown, seemed immune to judgment, as if untouched by human minds.

In his book The Shallows, author Nicholas Carr warns of the dangers of modern day «cybernetic blurring of mind and machine,» which «may allow us to carry out certain cognitive tasks far more efficiently,» but also «poses a threat to our integrity as human beings.»