No big deal» — to which I wanted to plead, «Please remember, if just for a moment, the horror you felt upon learning this for the first time, before all the scholarly articles dulled the blade and blurred the faces
of actual human beings into flat, emotionless ideas.
They do not represent separate entities, constituents, or even clearly distinguishable functions
of actual human beings.
To recognize the factual nature of values as responses
of actual human beings in actual or imagined situations is to remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understand.
But economists rarely comment on the fact that Homo economicus is abstracted from the relational and communal character
of actual human beings.
Director Steven Spielberg's latest combines the most commonly shared notions we have of our 16th U.S. president — the folksy deliberation, the spindly gait, the all - seeing eye on the prize of history remade — with the behavior, idiosyncrasies and contradictions
of an actual human being.
On a related front, we can not underestimate the power
of an actual human being.
Even so, the guard's A.I. isn't on par with
that of an actual human being.
But should those bytes and bits succeed in getting through the initial screeners and end up on the monitor
of an actual human being, you don't want your plain text resume to be overly hard to read.
Mirroring the employer's requirements creates a recognition of what they're looking for, but long before your resume gets into the hands
of an actual human being, it will likely pass through an applicant tracking system (ATS) that's been programmed to look for those same key words.
Today, resumes are typically scanned by a software program before they ever make it onto the desk
of an actual human being.
Not exact matches
When done well, live chat can provide consumers a quick avenue for everything from resolving service issues to finding the product they
're looking for — especially when an
actual human being is on the other end
of the chat.
Enter the consumerization
of IT, and B2B technology marketers
are more than ever faced with the fact that, at the end
of the day, they
're still talking and selling to
actual human beings.
Shared spaces like these offer the benefits
of an office — phones, wifi, coffee machines,
actual human beings to talk to — without the downsides
of a home arrangement.
Machine learning refers to a process where computers
are given access to mountains
of data, along with a set
of analysis criteria (created by an
actual human being).
When you talk about an
actual research project, often it starts as something more technologically oriented, but as you build deeper partnerships, you find that some
of the problems they
're really struggling with
are human problems.
Certainly, though, a superior level
of humanity will
be required to make wide - ranging decisions and consistently act in the best interest
of actual humans involved in work - related encounters in fully automated environments.
What You Can Do: Write job descriptions that sound like an
actual human being wrote them and that showcase the values and culture
of your company.
Since the early days
of the Internet when Bill Gates wrote in his book The Road Ahead that the «information superhighway» would become the «ultimate go - between» and that «only the
humans involved in a transaction will
be the
actual buyer and seller» there
's been a constant theme that middlemen
are finished.
So as
human beings continually act on their misconceptions, Reflexivity says that those actions then begin to distort the financial markets themselves, which actually impact the
actual fundamentals
of the markets themselves.
Despite the fact that these virtual
humans were not representations
of actual people, they found that participants» performance
of the novel task
was impaired when they
were led to believe that the virtual audience consisted
of avatars, but not when they
were framed as agents.
While Guided Investing
is a robo - advisor, meaning client portfolios
are shaped by market theory computer algorithms instead
of actual humans, the knowledge behind the recommendations comes from Merrill Lynch.
In a nod to the highly experimental nature
of its Pittsburgh plan, Uber intends to have an
actual human being behind the wheel — just in case.
Contact with reality» which
is to say, the
actual operation
of the legal system and its impact on society»
is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths
of human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections
of one's colleagues.
7) This god
is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there
was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark
is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a
human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin
of Adam and Eve.
The
actual problem that many folks have
is being told that a collection
of books written by
human beings with an agenda
is the absolute only possible truth in the universe.
In
human history, the
actual living out
of marriage as a lifelong union has
been the exception rather than rule.
That
is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free
human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an
actual world devoid
of beings with some power
of self - determination would
be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined
beings (GPE 271).
The
actual end
of most
human lives
is sad, painful, sometimes grueling, profoundly embarrassing, and pathetic, often leaving emptiness, loss, regret, relief, and other contradictory and disturbing emotions in its wake.
To put it another way, it
is the person, not the self, whose nature
is inextricably bound up in the web
of obligations and duties that characterize our
actual lives in history, in
human society — child, parent, sibling, spouse, associate, friend, and citizen — the positions in which we find ourselves functioning both as agents and acted - upon.
But we maintain, on the contrary, that we know the Jesus
of history very well, even if we do not have a precise and photographic account
of his day - by - day activities; and the unique claim
of Christianity
is that in and by those events in the
actual realm
of historical happenedness, God
is revealed — revealed,
of course, in and under the conditions
of history and
human life, but revealed nonetheless.
The question
is neither «religious» nor «open»; it
is a secular question having to do with the social, complex, ambiguous quality
of actual human lives.
I personally don't think Steve
was «fair» with all
of the biblical accounts
of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where
actual human lives
are getting «cut off» by God, it
's hard to quibble over minor details like that.
Once God
is regarded as an
actual entity, the use
of personalistic language follows naturally, for our basic clue to the nature
of an
actual entity
is given in our own immediate
human experience.
An inevitable temptation
of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has
been to think that the idea or symbol
of an
actual end
of the world
was no part
of the original proclamation
of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too -
human or fleshy component
of their minds and hearts, which
was impervious to the higher call
of the Spirit.
It
is a painful tale, burdened with an inexorable logic
of defeat at the hands
of a racist society — we «know» from the beginning that terrible things
are in store — but illuminated by another logic, that
of grace, by no means so certain, for it operates in secret with persons (Kumalo and the elder Jarvis) whose formation by it
is in terms
of the gradual and ambiguous growth
of actual human development.
The
actual evidence that every Christian observes (but ignores) as they attend church — that
being: The evidence suggests that the church, every church,
is operating just as one would expect, if it
were simply the product, the invention,
of human beings.
It may
be argued that if
human occasions
of experience prehend God, and they do, they must prehend him as a contemporary, since God as
actual entity
is contemporary with all other occasions.
Historical «science» (aka the bible) says
humans were the product
of intelligent design a few thousand years ago and «
actual science» can't prove otherwise...»
«Outrage Porn» resembles
actual pornography in that it aims for a cheap, temporary thrill at the expense
of another
human being, but without any personal accountability or commitment to that
human being.
(That Whitehead ends up dissolving the
human person into a multiplicity
of «societies»
of «
actual entities»
is another question.)
If pro-lifers
were truly «pro life» then they would put an equal amount
of energy into stopping prison executions which
are unarguably taking
actual human lives....
The argument that life begins at conception
is absurd in that what should
be said
is parasitic life begins at conception,
actual human life only becomes a valid argument when the fetus
is able to live outside the womb, prior to that the life
is basically in the hands
of the host — mother.
But here
is a field
of actual human experience disgracefully neglected and very imperfectly explored, which could make a radical change in our
human condition.
In process thought, anything
actual at all
is an instance
of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we
are aware
of,
human beings.
Whitehead's thoroughgoing transfer to the whole
of natural reality
of a polar, spirit - matter conception such as
was attempted by Thomas Aquinas for the
human [222]
is not so astonishing inasmuch as Whitehead takes the
human self as the model case
of an «
actual entity.»
Through his religious education every mature Christian ought to
be able to distinguish between the
actual dogma
of the Church and theological opinions that may
be changed and improved, between immutable divine law and changeable
human law.
The Church will not, for example,
be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message
of the gospel and
is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his
actual social and
human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand
of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he
was the first to discover the final loss
of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has
been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his
is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence
of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the
actual passion
of sex as the most immediate epiphany
of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he
is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role
of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his
is the only Christian vision
of the total kenotic movement
of God or the Godhead; (7) he
was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he
is the most Christocentric
of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision
of the full identity
of Jesus with the individual
human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator
of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision
of a total cosmic reversal
of history.
The word «religion» in
actual practice
is applied to a great variety
of human ideas, acts, and institutions.
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.