The bizarre
nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.
Instead they worry that dark matter's identity might simply prove to be irrelevant to other great mysteries in physics and thus offer no new paths toward understanding the
true nature of reality.
Modern artists have largely abandoned any attempt to answer questions such as what does it mean to be human or what is the
underlying nature of reality?
For more than 300 years we have been asking ourselves about the
true nature of reality — what, ultimately, stuff is made of.
Interestingly, although Holloway's assertion of the Christocentric
nature of reality in the light of science might appear very bold, this insight has a long pedigree in the tradition of the Church.
With so much dis / information streaming in through non-stop feeds, the artists selected for this exhibition reflected on ways to examine the intricate and complex
nature of reality by doing what they do best: creating a silent comment that requires viewers to stop, look, and absorb.
Although standard vipassana meditation practice leading to insight about the true
nature of reality does not recommend what I am about to do, I plan to do it anyway.
The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally
social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.
Jainism holds that because of the
indeterminate nature of Reality, different viewpoints are possible and that none can claim final knowledge of the truth — which brings us back to the pervading sense of Mystery.
This article, which originally appeared in print as «Math Made Flesh,» is an excerpt from the book OUR MATHEMATICAL UNIVERSE: My Quest for the
Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark.
Last Saturday, at a workshop organized by the Foundation Questions Institute, Nobel laureate physicist Gerard» t Hooft gave a few informal remarks on the
deep nature of reality.
A soft - spoken woman, Marling has an infectious sense of wonder when speaking of the
malleable nature of reality, and the artistry of her collaborator, director and co-writer Mike Cahill.
Finally, the Christian hope in the Kingdom of God or the New Jerusalem is a hope in such a «nothingness,» for it is a hope that contradicts the
inherent nature of reality.
Their level of value depends on how language and actions collaborate with the
unfolding nature of reality, that is the unfolding, subsummation, and reconciliation of all things.
Throughout the early portions of Star Maker the cosmic mind is unable to accept the perpetual perishing of civilizations, this waxing and
waning nature of reality.
He saw the urgent need to take on board the essential truth of an evolutionary world view, but his overriding concern was also to re-vindicate the
objective nature of reality and truth and the transcendence of God and therefore the absolute and unchanging priority of revealed doctrine, moral precept and supernatural grace, within that perspective.
To observe and participate in the
acentric nature of reality requires deconstructing the habits of mind that preserve self - isolation in all the many forms these take.
This is the logical basis for Hartshorne's forceful insistence on the irreducibly
dipolar nature of reality; each and every form of reality is defined and limited by its polar opposite.
In Whitehead, the interrelated and fluid
nature of reality prevents rigid fixed meanings that objectively depict reality in its fullness.
The recognition of both our perspectival limitations and the
interrelated nature of reality leads Whitehead to argue, similarly to Peirce and James, for an open metaphysical system that continually seeks «better» descriptions of the whole of reality.
Without our having been drawn toward a higher or deeper meaning by a concrete set of symbols expressed in a specific historical - cultural context we would have no inkling of ultimate purpose or of the
hierarchical nature of reality.
It may be also that such churches have grasped the
new nature of reality as it has been created in our subconscious by television and the other mass media.
Despite his early advocacy of the
quantum nature of reality, by the 1920s Einstein had begun voicing serious doubts about the theory.
Even when you think you've considered every condition that a piece of software will encounter, the
rebellious nature of reality (including the foibles of human users) will come up with something to violate your assumptions.
Enthralled by the writings, which raised empirical questions on how the brain generates the mind, Halassa grew increasingly fascinated with the seemingly
ungraspable nature of reality.
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