Sentences with phrase «of infinite duration»

Drawing on principles of video game design, improvisation and cognitive science, Cheng develops live simulations — virtual ecosystems of infinite duration, populated with agents who are programmed with behavioral drives but left to self - evolve without authorial intent, following the unforgiving causality found in nature.

At other places brahman is pictured as being of infinite duration (Katha III, 15; Svet.

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Any actual occasion is situated within an infinite number of durations (PR 487f).

Now the question arises: How can any process in time be accomplished through an infinite number of durations of positive magnitude?

For if we were to say that James's drops of experience included a changing process, then once again this process would have to be completed over an infinite number of component durations.

Consider also that, in a note appended to The Concept of Nature, Whitehead just as candidly asserts that in reading the book's proofs he has come to the conclusion that his «limitation of infinite events to durations is untenable» (CN 197 - 198).

In subsequent passage, however, he adds that it is possible to conceive «an infinite number of degrees» between matter and fully developed spirit: «Each of these successive degrees, which measures a growing intensity of life, corresponds to a higher tension of duration and is made manifest externally by a greater development of the sensory - motor system» (MM 296, Cf. also MM 332).