Sentences with phrase «nonhuman experience»

Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to make an application of Whitehead's system to recent findings concerning nonhuman experience, in particular primate experience.

We are now ready to consider to what degree these forms of self - consciousness are found in nonhuman experience.

But increasingly researchers in this field are coming to agree that careful observation also requires an acknowledgement of the emotion, meaning and purpose in nonhuman experience.

We have seen that research in nonhuman experience corroborates Whitehead's epistemological scheme in which perception takes the two forms of causal efficacy and presentational immediacy, propositions and concepts are primarily nonlinguistic, feeling is the dominant mode of world - and self - disclosure, and animals experience both morally and aesthetically.

Not exact matches

If, as Hartshorne does, one uses one's prior understanding of various types of human experience as the source of generalized descriptions which together constitute the final concept of experience, how does one decide whether the generalizations have been radical enough to support application to all — including nonhuman — experiences or were sufficient only to cover human experiences?

The theory generalizes the repetition of the past that is evident in conscious, mnemonic occasions of human experience into a feature of all actual occasions, human or nonhuman.

We do not simply create the nonhuman realities — plants, animals, and inorganic materials — that we interpret; rather we experience these realities as given to us for interpretation, and in their givenness values are disclosed.

There is intrinsic value, or richness of experience, in every living creature, human or nonhuman.

We in fact share this mode of perception with nonhuman occasions of experience.

He adds that the scientists unwilling to attribute intentionality to animals are generally those with little direct experience with the behavior of nonhuman primates (DNCC 221).

Nonhuman Aesthetic and Moral Experience.

Whitehead» s position that nonhumans enjoy aesthetic experience, moral experience, and nonverbal thought is well substantiated by recent investigations.

And not just the nonhuman created order — even we ourselves, as Christians, who have received the advance gift of the Holy Spirit, are now groaning within ourselves, for we are also waiting — waiting for the transformation of our bodies and for the full experiencing of our adoption as God's children.

This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.

But those experiences are concrescences of the wider society, human and nonhuman.

The previous discussion indicates how Whitehead believes one can, by generalizing from occasions of human experience, talk meaningfully about the nature of nonhuman actual entities in themselves.

We are nothing apart from what our moments of living contribute to future life, and this means to some or all of the following: our own future experiences; future experiences of other human beings, nonhuman animals, or plants; divine experience, this last contribution containing all the value whatsoever that our moments can have.

Biologists disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animals, and especially whether they consciously experience their emotions.

The staff is extensively experienced and has ready - access to the most physically and psychologically healthy nonhuman primates available.

The program gives unique experience in compassionate care for nonhuman primates and non-invasive behavior studies.

Employment experience with nonhuman primates required.

The experienced and caring staff at AGI is dedicated to conducting humane research with nonhuman primates to advance knowledge in primate biology and to address human health concerns.

Long - term species - specific studies of lateralization in nonhumans are required to determine if pawedness shifts over time or varies with context, experience and genetic predisposition.

Long - term effects of different early rearing experiences on social, emotional, and physiological development in nonhuman primates

He saw that emotions were experienced by the animals; the difference between humans and nonhuman animals emotions not in kind but in degree.

The works on view transcend the categories that separate drawing from sculpture, the human from the nonhuman, and the animated from the static, while experiences of technological devices and flatness lead to fantastic and absurd implications for objects and space.

Mildly stressful early life experiences can potentially impact a broad range of social, cognitive, and physiological functions in humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents.

Stress regulation in children is important for understanding the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders.1 Environmental factors that operate at key points in development may shape affective and behavioral regulation and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress responsivity.

She is also a co-investigator on a randomized efficacy trial of a school readiness intervention program with foster children and a multisite Center investigating the behavioral and neurobiological impacts of early adverse experiences in humans and nonhuman primates.