Sentences with phrase «of social organisms»

His final explanation (note the «purely») of any religion refers only to what that religion does for its adherents, and only to the mechanisms of the evolution of social organisms.

I regard the way it manipulates and controls our access to information as dangerous to the health of the social organism.

And as the dying process of an organism can stretch over some time, so the demise of a social organism which has enjoyed a life span of some 1,500 years may be a lengthy process.

Jordan makes the movies Terry Gilliam never quite made until Tideland; far from the compassionate fare many label it, his oeuvre is comprised of harsh little ditties about the voraciousness of the social organism and the bites it takes out of individuals living perpendicular to the absolute mean.

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According to the Oxford research, companies that ply in fine arts, originality, negotiation, persuasion, social perceptiveness and assisting or caring for others are in the least danger of being overtaken by Schwarzenegger - like T - 800 cybernetic organisms.

Luckett, who co-wrote The Social Organism with Michael J. Casey in 2016 and co-founded theAudience with Facebook's founding president Sean Parker, says: «I'm not at all a fan of Facebook.

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

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.

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

It is an inevitable consequence of our being complex social organisms that we have a moral instinct and it has nothing to do with religion.

Nathaniel Lawrence sees this interconnected social fabric of Whitehead» s philosophy of organism as forming the base for his beliefs about education (NES).

The school of social functionalism examines the ways in which society, considered as an organism, attempts to contain and manage conflict, integrating disparate members and subgroups into the whole.

The purpose of the self - system is to maximize the potential for well being and minimize the presence of tension or anxiety within the organism, which arises from either organic needs or social insecurity.

Highly evolved organisms of a social species who have outdone their already remarkably intelligent primate relatives in intelligence and complexity of social structure.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

The theological and historical dimensions of a church's corporate identity account for its uniqueness as a social organism.

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.

Once the exceptional, but fundamentally biological, nature of the collective human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred in the dimensions in which we are working) from treating as authentic organs the diverse social organisms which have gradually evolved in the course of the history of the human race.

Some humans romantically yearn for a regression back to social anarchy, which might be likened — rather fancifully, to be sure — to the cells of a plant longing for the mobility of single - celled organisms.

Within this social organism there would arise «a spiritual center, a supreme pole of consciousness, upon which all the separate consciousnesses of the world may converge and within which they may love one another».5 This super-consciousness would evolve in the same way that personal consciousness does within the complex physiology of the human organism.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

There are three zones or dimensions of awareness: inner awareness of one's organism and its needs; awareness of the outer world as experienced by the senses; and a middle zone (Perls called this the DMZ) composed of our fantasies, imagination, memories, beliefs, interpretations, prejudices, and our total social programming by our culture.

Which amounts to saying that the complexification of Matter, at the point it has now reached in the human social organism, is physically incapable of advancing further if the Mind does not play a part, not only with its capacity for technical organization, but with its purposive and affective powers of arrangement and inner tension.

We see Nature combining molecules and cells in the living body to construct separate individuals, and the same Nature, stubbornly pursuing the same course but on a higher level, combining individuals in social organisms to obtain a higher order of psychic results.

Upon an imaginary earth of constantly increasing extent, living organisms, being only loosely associated, might well remain at the mono - cellular stage (if indeed they got so far); and certainly Man, if free to live in a scattered state, would never have reached even the neolithic stage of social development.

With this concept of natural subjectivity oriented to the living, Piaget pursued the philosophy of organism of Whitehead on the level of natural and social sciences.

A family system, like other social organisms, is composed of several interdependent subsystems.

But the decisive stages of this evolution are just those in which, beyond a new and purely «social» organization, there emerges the constitution of organisms that, on a higher level from that of the unities they have integrated, can again count as true unitary beings.

What Whitehead denotes as the «social order» of the higher living beings can no longer be understood on the model of a society with its emphasis on multiplicity, but only on that of an organism focusing on unity.

A family is a primary social organism with a distinctive identity or «personality» of its own, which is more than the sum of its parts.

The Church is neither an Epi - nor a Para-phenomenon in the growth of the Human Social Organism, but constitutes the very Axis (or Nucleus) about which it Forms

d The Christian phylum is not an accessory or divergent shoot in the human social organism, but constitutes the axis itself of socialization.

The progression from each stage to the next involves a process «of increasing differentiation and complexity of organization that endows the organism, social system, or whatever the unit in question may be with greater capacity to adapt to its environment than... its less complex ancestors.

A further significant facet of Hartshorne's social conception of the universe is his idea that the wills or minds of organisms influence their component organs or parts as well as being influenced by them.

The higher organisms which most interest us thus can be analyzed into complexly - related levels of social order.

That still happens, but it's diffused around the globe in ways that are difficult to see as part of an evolving, healthy social organism (not that American industrialization was trouble free!).

Yet, each newcomer presents a problem as well as a growth opportunity — e.g., dealing with the anxiety / resentment aroused by his «invading» a comfortable social organism; encountering a new personality; experiencing the process of integrating him into the group identity.

In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.

In governance we strive to apply Rudolf Steiner's concept of the threefold social organism which meets the different qualities and requirements of the economic, legal, and cultural spheres.

[211] In coordination with institutional organisms, researchers are also studying the social impact of brestfeeding throughout history.

Currently, I work on three directions: (1) cell motility and the cytoskeleton, (2) modeling of physiology and diseases (such as autoimmune diabetes), and (3) swarming and aggregation behaviour in social organisms.

Examples of such areas include understanding relationships between intended genetic changes and an organism's observable traits, the unintended effects of genetic changes on target and non-target organisms, predicting and monitoring ecosystem responses, and quantifying the economic and social costs and benefits of biotechnologies.

A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.

«The honey bee is a highly social organism, so the behavior of thousands of bees are essential for the survival of the colony,» said Nieh.»

The phrase is a fine combination of old - fashioned sexism and convenient biology - speak which, by reducing human individuals to a biological organism, «man», sweeps away social complexities and confines debate to the simplicities of what we often call «nature».

The colonies of most ant species, including the harvester, are social, cooperative, seamless organisms, differing from what we think of as an individual organism only in that «they're not stuck together,» as Tschinkel puts it.

Qaim, of the University of Göttingen in Germany, has been studying the social and financial impacts of genetically modified organisms for years.

And anything that focuses on a higher level of interaction between social organisms, or involves the mind in any way (psychology, sociology) goes into SOCIAL SCsocial organisms, or involves the mind in any way (psychology, sociology) goes into SOCIAL SCSOCIAL SCIENCE.