Sentences with phrase «of animal consciousness»

The sheer number of birds depicted, each quietly and articulately rendered, coalesces into a greater conceptual installation, the gallery humming with a feeling of animal consciousness.

The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles» computer - generated chance operation for «imagining» houses and their inhabitants; from the pseudo-scientific examination of a conversation between a mother and a daughter (Eleanor Antin) to the dark, comic interrogation of violence against women (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn by South African women with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hiller).

Nor, I think, does the acknowledgment of animal consciousness truly threaten to diminish our sense of the vast gulf — cognitive, moral, creative, imaginative — separating the human world from that of even the most intelligent of animals.

Hence the failure of animal consciousness to grasp the universal nature of ideality or symbol, as in number, structure, goodness, or other abstract concepts such as beauty and God.

The «more primitive elements of animal consciousness — palpable hunger and thirst, fear and rage, pleasure and pain — are as clearly evolutionary adaptations to an ever more elaborate ecosystem as fur and feathers, toes and digits, eyes and ears.»

Not exact matches

He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

I choose to live life to the fullest through joy of discovering His «art» like fractals, birth, consciousness, seasons, animals, the «mighty deep» thanks to a Creator rather than accidental and inconsequential life, while hanging in the perfect orbit between burning up and freezing, complete with the earth's own washing machine, the ocean, which cycles on accidental moon power.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.

We also know that other animals with brains that are structured similarly display similar forms of consciousness and self - awareness.

Even up till modern times class and caste divisions have obscured the unity of the human species, while animal lovers have frequently projected their own human consciousness into animal experience.

At this stage, however, it is important to note that in addition to the literature of land ethics, animal rights, and Whiteheadian philosophy, there are numerous other resources within philosophy from which Christians interested in creation consciousness can learn.

Our developed consciousness fastens on the sensum as datum: our basic animal experience entertains it as a type of subjective feeling.

The reflective consciousness, which is the most striking factor differentiating man from other animals, was the by - product of unconscious processes and initially fully subordinate to them.

Whereas we can posit the presence of receptive consciousness wherever a developed central nervous system is to be found in the animal world, and of organization by signals wherever learning is possible, symbolic organization of consciousness or reflective consciousness depends on the power of symbolization, which is the distinguishing characteristic of man.

In fact it is apparent that some other animals share a certain degree of self - consciousness, most notably the great apes.

But man who is a later product of the process far transcends the animal with the possession of self - consciousness and rational powers.

To show how tyrannical any country that aimed at achieving perfect justice — even at the expense of family, friendship, and the self - consciousness of persons born to love other persons and die as particular persons — would be, Socrates turned the rulers into gods and most people into animals to be controlled.

Millions of years before the birth of Man, the animal felt, discovered and knew; but its consciousness remained simple and direct.

Although in the pre-human stages of evolution the gradual growth of consciousness in animals (see Section 2, below) does not appear to have had any appreciable effect on the course or speed of their zoological evolution, from the time of Man the evolutionary mechanism undergoes a radical change.

Popper agrees that there can be little doubt that many animals possess consciousness and can be, at times, even conscious of a problem.

(2) Can we reduce, or hope to reduce, the consciousness of self and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, and thus, if questions (1) and (2) are answered in the affirmative, to physics and chemistry?

Popper indeed believes that the reduction of chemistry to physics, of biology to chemistry, of animal conscious or subconscious experience to biology, and of consciousness itself and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, are all problems the complete success of which seems most unlikely if not impossible.

But, he says: «The emergence of consciousness in the animal kingdom is perhaps as great a mystery as the origin of life itself» He will, however, agree that there can be little doubt that consciousness in animals has some function and can be looked at as if it were a bodily organ.

With the evolutionary emergence of complex, ordered societies of occasions serving the rich and imaginative experience of strands of «presiding occasions» which exhibit «personal order «4 and perhaps consciousness — that is, animals and human beings, with their quicksilver brains and supple bodies — opportunities expand exponentially and the risks of freedom expand correlatively.

This summer, a group of scientists at a conference on «Consciousness in Human and Non-Human Animals» issued a statement (PDF) declaring: Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of consciAnimals» issued a statement (PDF) declaring: Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscianimals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious....

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

This method of slaughter reduces the blood pressure in the brain to zero immediately so that the animal loses consciousness in a few seconds and dies in less than a minute.

The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

The basic structure that makes these dominant occasions possible emerged with the development of the central nervous system in animals, and where this structure is present, it is reasonable, as Thorpe does, to posit consciousness as present to some degree.

The reduction of chemistry to physics, of biology to chemistry, of animal conscious or subconscious experience to biology, and of consciousness itself and the creativeness of the human mind to animal experience, are all problems that are unlikely if not impossible to succeed.

Even at the level of tribal religious rituals, which Whitehead compares with the co-actions in animal herd behavior, a process of abstraction can be discerned which augments solitariness and world - consciousness.

The word nowadays means sometimes the mere natural animal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a Greek or Roman with his own peculiar religious consciousness.

This is how I feed the soft animal of my body and how I nourish my consciousness.

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The disruptive effects on animals of our penchant for bright lights has rarely impinged on public consciousness.

In her recent book Why Animals Matter: Animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well - being, Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford claims we still don't really know if other animals are conscious and that we should «remain skeptical and agnostic... Militantly agnostic if necessary.Animals Matter: Animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well - being, Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford claims we still don't really know if other animals are conscious and that we should «remain skeptical and agnostic... Militantly agnostic if necessary.&Animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well - being, Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford claims we still don't really know if other animals are conscious and that we should «remain skeptical and agnostic... Militantly agnostic if necessary.&animal welfare, and human well - being, Marian Stamp Dawkins at the University of Oxford claims we still don't really know if other animals are conscious and that we should «remain skeptical and agnostic... Militantly agnostic if necessary.animals are conscious and that we should «remain skeptical and agnostic... Militantly agnostic if necessary.»

Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and other means of perceiving the world, Koch said it would experience something different than what people and other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it conscious of?»

Alpha rhythms are stronger in humans than other animals, and Carhart - Harris thinks it could be a signature of high - level human consciousness.

Found in every plant and animal cell, microtubules serve a variety of purposes, from support structures to conveyor belts, and perhaps even the seat of consciousness.

Reading Animals in Translation is like looking at a photographic negative of ordinary human behavior and consciousness.

This behavior quickly became a hallmark of consciousness to animal researchers, partly because it was so testable.

If we ask what consciousness is for, and why it evolved, we may get closer to understanding the nature of our own minds as well as those of other animals

Bob Holmes observes that signs of consciousness have been found in animals from at least three different phyla, suggesting it...

As a result, Pepperberg's work has won accolades for its persuasiveness from the likes of Oxford animal behaviorist Marian Stamp Dawkins, an authority on animal consciousness and a skeptic about many studies in the field.

The question of how non-human animal consciousness works is as much about philosophy as it is about animal behavior.

Supreme Consciousness or Pure Being is defined here as the eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient one life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death, yet also contained within that myriad of form from mineral to plant to lower animal to human at it's innermost, indestructible essence.

This is the same old Cinderella trope located firmly within the «Family Guy» generation, the film's hip acknowledgment of genre conventions (the absurdity of talking animals, the modern irrelevance of royalty) nevertheless failing to capitalize on that newfound consciousness in any meaningful way.