Sentences with phrase «of bodily senses»

But the ordinary production - theory of consciousness is knit up with a peculiar notion of how brain - action can occur, — that notion being that all brain - action, without exception, is due to a prioraction, immediate or remote, of the bodily sense - organs on the brain.

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Maximus the Confessor interprets this event as a moment in which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

The sense of projected bodily power onto a field, so readily grasped in sports, is thus naturally best and most easily translated into a game on a screen.

In the latter book Whitehead recognizes the danger that his earlier rise of «perception» can lead into confusion, and he acknowledges «that it may be advisable for philosophers to confine the word «perception»» to «experiential functions which arise directly from stimulation of the various bodily sense - organs» (AI 229).

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

Nothing else makes sense of us as human beings, as spiritual, rational and bodily beings.

This is a realistic image in the sense that people can live that way and, its advocates insist, can live well; for they believe that such and only such a way of life is in tune with the deepest rhythms of the bodily and psychic functioning of human beings.

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

Maybe this dual approach to pain makes sense, since there's no obvious benefit from simply enduring bodily illness, no hope of overcoming a bad headache by living through it.

This sense of derivation from bodily events, Whitehead reminds us, finds full corroboration in modern physiology.

The most one could say is that, in bodily sensation, the essences are less clearly defined than those of the distance senses and the dumb intent more insistent.

Touch, for Aristotle, is the sense of bodily contact (DA 435a17, 434b12f, 432b27).

Touch, furthermore, as the sense of bodily pleasure and pain, involves to a high degree the effective response that, according to Whitehead, is more primitive than the clear perception of a distinct and definite object.

It is the sense of being bodily affected by other bodies.

The true doctrine of sense - perception is that the qualitative characters of affective tones inherent in the bodily functionings are transmuted into the characters of [external] regions.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

They do not see the transformation of every physical limitation as a guarantee, or even as necessary for fulfilling our human potential, and they construe healing in a holistic sense, as the inclusion of all people, regardless of bodily or mental function, in communion with God.

This has sometimes been interpreted to mean that if there were no sin, we would not have died in the sense of our bodily system disintegrating.

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neursenses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurSenses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy is consequent upon a particular type of bodily amplification and selection of sense data derived from the stream of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the human situation through selective conscious attention to some, but not all, of the features of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.

As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusted.

Thus in some important sense the existence of the soul may be freed from its complete dependence upon the bodily organization.7

This sense of alienness provides a subtle, bodily experienced frame of reference within which it becomes easy to construct and perpetuate stereotypes.

To him it was not a physical affair in any fleshly sense — «Flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God» (I Corinthians 15:50)-- but it was a bodily affair.

Rather, as Merleau - Ponty noted in La Nature, the constitution of the sense of the world is a re-constitution of what presents itself to us as «already there,» a co-operation with its appearing to let its meaning emerge through our bodily, perceptual complicity.

Even in dreams, as Bergson has shown, once and for all so far as I am concerned, two further realities are involved: some aspects of the subject's own past experiences (memory) and (sensory awareness) of the subject's bodily state, in whatever sense it has a body, and with the last, to some extent, the state of the environment, as well.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

By this, process - thought (as expounded by Whitehead) means that there is given to us, in our experience at all levels (including our «bodily» as well as our intellectual awareness), the sense of a variety of relationships which have played upon us and brought our experience to us in the particular way in which in fact it has been brought.

We have been saying that parent - child intimacy develops in the process of teaching the child to prize his own body and bodily experiences, his own senses and sensations, his own feelings, both good and bad.

The causation involved in this interaction is causation in a different sense from the influence of this system of bodily interactions within nature on the alien mind which thereupon perceives redness and warmth.

But in verses 19 - 20 the principle of exact retaliation is applied to physical, bodily disfigurement, and the sense is of deliberate disfigurement premeditatedly and maliciously inflicted.

Further, (2) perceptual, bodily processes are basically unintelligible because, according to the classic «form / matter» analysis, experience consists of a synthesis of intrinsically meaningless physical sensations passively received via the sense - organs — the «matter» — together with an active, reflective, mental judgment — the «form» — which interprets them.

Or, to put it another way, habits, as sedimented patterns of behavior, offer spontaneity the permanence it needs for a continued and sustained existence, in the sense that this permanence establishes the perspective on the world which is my bodily motility and gives it a temporal continuity.

From very early in life we sense the annihilating implications of our bodily existence, and we are understandably terrorized and overwhelmed by this awareness.

[5] It is through our bodily senses and the «stuff» of the physical world that we encounter God.

It doesn't make sense, as I certainly have more than my fair share of contact with germs and bodily fluids with 3 kids.

The County accepts that and the County Executive conveyed a sense of relief that no one set out with a sinister objective to create havoc or cause bodily harm.

Neuroimaging studies by Peter Brugger of University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland have shown that the network of brain regions responsible for creating a sense of bodily self is different in people with the condition (Brain, vol 136, p 318).

I have taken the principals behind vital bodily functions, e.g. our sense of hearing, touch and the ability to detect light, and replicated them in a laboratory environment with natural, synthetic components.

He is one of many researchers who have taken the illusion and run with it, creating a whole new set of «bodily illusions» that mess with our sense of self in strange and disturbing ways.

What is the best guide to deepening our sense of profound bodily and emotional ease?

Bring a willing sense of spirit, wear clothing that does not restrict bodily movement, and a not too full stomach.

The bodily movements strengthen and harmonize the whole human body fostering a sense of relaxation and inner liberation.

Cellular Harmony helps us regain a sense of wholeness, rhythm and bodily wisdom, aiding restoration of body, mind and spirit.

«Who is the I that knows the bodily me, who has an image of myself and a sense of identity over time, who knows that I have propriate strivings?

Fortunately for my bodily well being, she has an excellent sense of humor.

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Complete bodily examination - Your veterinarian may go about this course of if you are chatting and will objectively be evaluating your cat utilizing many senses (trying, listening, feeling, probing, even smelling for odors).

It requires the real sense of bodily involvement in a way that flapping a motion controller will simulate a gun.