If you call, it might take three minutes or so, simply because of the nature
of human conversation — a back and forth conversation about coverage takes a few seconds longer than you selecting options in a dropdown.
«I remember the moment when I noticed that women's voices were not part
of the human conversation, and I felt an immense loss.
Not exact matches
during social interactions sucks the life out
of conversations — and spoils real, genuine
human connection on the whole.
It's a more
human conversation, even if it's going out to thousands
of people.
As a leader, you need to step out
of your office and have real,
human,
conversations with your team.
Like Google, Microsoft has been investing heavily in artificial intelligence, and boasts some
of the most advanced technologies for having
human - like
conversations with virtual agents like its own Cortana, which comes with every installation
of Windows 10.
Turkle is the author
of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming
Conversation: The Power
of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on
human relationships to technology.
If you want to stay away from Chatbots for now (although, by 2020, some 80 percent
of businesses will likely be using them), you can bring a more authentic experience to your
human conversations by making use
of relevant information.
In a fascinating post on The
Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account
of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels
of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:
Recent findings from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) suggest it's
human nature — even from a young age — to favor an engaging
conversation over a one - sided one.
Others, like Hanson Robotics, have invented remarkably
human - like robots, capable
of carrying a
conversation (albeit a peculiar one) and recalling personal history.
Ask your reps to have
conversations with employees in customer service, sales or
human resources
of the company their trying to sell to.
Just as
conversation draws out the best
of human ideas, trust and respect draw out the best
of human action.
But when was the last time you (or any other
human being) successfully made thousands
of calls and had productive, lead - nurturing
conversations in a day?
It's
human nature for people to think it terms
of «what's in it for me,» so start the
conversation there.
Join us for a
conversation about whether
humans should embrace future robots or fear the evolution
of machines.
In a three - minute summary
of his thesis on YouTube, Andrist explains that — so far in his research —
conversations between
humans and robots have become much more fluid, after the robots were programmed with proper social gaze behavior.
I eventually regained the ability to have adult
human conversation, and we began what turned into a highly interesting and engaging two - hour discussion.8 This guy has a lot on his mind across a lot
of topics.
Kelly has spoken and moderated
conversations on the power
of your personal brand and sits on the Board for The Lola Melani Fund and the Advisory Board for The UN
Human Rights Initiative, is a member
of the Entrepreneurs Organization, and a Nexus Global Delegate.
Drawing on his life story, as well as
conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience
of what it means to be
human.»
Get on the phone and have a detailed
conversation that allows for the «
human element»
of relationship building and establishing trust.
The discussion about the meaning
of human dignity is really a
conversation about the meaning
of being a
human being and about the best way to shape a society.
A
conversation about
human rights is always in order, to be sure — particularly in regard to issues
of human sexuality — but Isaiah is speaking
of the remarkable generosity
of God, who «will give an everlasting name» to the eunuchs, precisely those who could establish no name for themselves by the normal processes
of procreation.
Participants in the
conversation from all walks
of life should seek to describe authentic
human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a body
of principles and a consensus about the best applications
of genetic knowledge emerge.
In my opinion, however, many, many Christians are unbelievably naive when it comes to
human nature and the kinds
of power dynamics exposed in this
conversation.
In the case
of the
conversation, the most important
of these unitary events will turn out to be momentary
human experiences.
It assumes that
human life is fundamentally practical; hence, knowledge is not most basically the correspondence
of some understanding
of reality with «reality - as - it - is,» but it is a continual process
of analysis, explanation,
conversation, and application with both theoretical and practical aspects.
Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings
of guilt, and excavating the reality
of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition
of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into
conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense
of sin and evil in the
human condition.
I'd take a deep / meaningful
conversation with a
human being (
of any faith / non-faith) over a volume
of systematic theology any day.
After closed - door
conversations with the White House going back to November, the cardinal - in - waiting challenged the White House over an insurance mandate from the U.S. Department
of Health and
Human Services that forced religious institutions, except for houses
of worship, to provide insurance plans that included coverage for contraceptives.
allow them a hot shower, some homey comforts and nice meal, good
conversation and mostly giving them a feeling
of being loved and cared for and
human.
One fibre, the thickness
of a
human hair, can carry 2,000 phone
conversations, data, text or pictures at the same time.
The Bible as a
conversation starter, a question starter, a guide that touches on fundamental themes and questions
of human life works, not as the RULE BOOK that SHA N'T BE QUESTIONED!
Let's not separate ourselves from the fun our neighbors are having, but contribute to the
conversation, that Jesus, a part
of the Godhead, came to us as a vulnerable
human baby so we can be saved from the bad things that destroy our lives.
And while this sort
of praying is not quite as strange as speaking in tongues, when it is carried over into a real - world
conversation with another
human being, it sounds completely bizarre.
In a global
conversation about danger, fear and Syrian refugees, we're seeing a resurgence
of the countercultural practice
of loving people we don't think are like us — and in extending Gospel - saturated love to them, we realize we are far more similar in our
human needs.
The overriding philosophy he espouses is one
of kindness, concern for one's neighbors, direct
conversation, and a desire to reach the truth
of human endeavor.
What public
conversation did take place occurred within a legal - moralistic framework, a framework that fails to persuade when we lack a vision
of what it means to be
human.
We have no objective foundation nor fixed goal, and we must accept «our inheritance from, and our
conversation with, our fellow -
humans as our only source
of guidance» (CP 166).
Paul Knitter in his One Earth, Many Religions emphasizes the priority
of «the dialogue
of action» in response «to the widespread
human and ecological suffering and injustice that are threatening our species and our planet» but he recognizes that «unless the voices
of the mystic and the scholar are also heard, the
conversation will lose its religious content or it will be turned into a tool for purposes that can only discredit all the participants.»
The news about your cure is overwhelmingly welcome, but as you will recall from our «last
conversation» it is, like all good news within the
human condition, in the form
of a reprieve.
It is the Reason
of Plato at work, freeing us from old, stale habits
of thought in the expectation that out
of the resulting
conversation, from the very turmoil and confusion
of interpretations at war with one another, can emerge in good time a better understanding and a better practice
of what it is to become and be within
human communities.
Cloning, anti-aging technology,
human / mechanical intertwining, basic discoveries
of science pushing god further into a gap, resource scarcity, will all make for some very interesting
conversations about population control, pregnancy and abortion in the coming centuries.
Conversation between adherents
of naturalism and theism is basically an argument not between science and theology, but between two ultimate commitments, two metaphysical interpretations
of the nature
of the universe and the significance
of human life.
Best
Conversation - Starter (nominated by BethanyKeeley - Jonker): Karen Swallow Prior at Her.Meneutics with «Welcoming Doubt Into Christian Education» «
Human history is a series
of pendulum swings from one extreme to another.
But I do know this: Whenever I enter into discourse or debate or
conversation, and I see the person as fundamentalist or Republican or homophobic or antagonist or (fill in the blank) rather than a
human being with stories and ideas and passions, I almost always fail at being a promoter
of unity.»
We need to have a
conversation that deepens our understanding
of, and appreciation for, what being
human is all about and that everybody, in my view, every single
human being is a unique expression
of the spectrum
of both the masculine and feminine, because God is neither male nor female.
For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence
of the ideal
of a civilized politics, a politics
of civil
conversation,
of noncoercion,
of the consent
of the governed,
of pluralism,
of religious liberty,
of respect for the inalienable dignity
of every
human person,
of voluntary cooperation in pursuit
of the common good, and
of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies
of sinful men and women.
When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character
of the faith
of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the
human condition apart from grace — the
conversation sent him into a mood
of self - reproach and even to consideration
of abandoning his dissertation topic.
«So let me get this straight, you have two - way
conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in
human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades
of incest... am I getting this?»