Sentences with phrase «of the human brain by»

Mutations in a gene called ASPM, for example, reduce the size of a human brain by up to 50 percent, making it about the same size as a chimpanzee's brain.

In the same way that the fly genome paved the way for larger projects, including sequencing the human genome, FlyEM may ultimately contribute to our understanding of the human brain by establishing a fly «connectome» — a map that shows how all neurons in the fly brain are connected to each other.

Taking advantage of this characteristic, we are developing novel devices that mimic the functions of the human brain by constructing nano - systems consisting of large numbers of self - assembled atomic switches.

LA JOLLA — Salk Institute scientists will lead a multimillion - dollar, five - year initiative to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain by systematically identifying and cataloging cell types across the mammalian brain, the National Institutes of Health has announced.

Not exact matches

«The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and right, connected by a bundle of nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.

The problem, according to the post by Melissa Dahl, is that our instincts on how to best utilize our time off are often at odds with the psychology of what actually refreshes the human brain.

By encouraging us to embrace the struggle, Foles reminds us of the conclusions Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck reached in decades of research on the human brain.

When it comes to medical treatment, the brain and central nervous system remain the darkest, most forbidding frontiers in the human body — and yet our knowledge of how the brain and mind actually work seems to be growing by leaps each year.

For example, he is actively promoting AI and man - machine integration by founding the company «Neuralink» in March 2017 for the direct connection of the human brain with machines and artificial intelligence — but at the same time since 2014 is warning that humanity could face doom through the rise of robots equipped with artificial intelligence:

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.

Their latest offering, the Brody WorkLounge was the outgrowth of an extensive research study conducted by Steelcase on how the human brain functions.

The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

Your brain which (like every other human brain) are a master of deception and delusion react to the stress by presenting you with the feeling that someone bigger and more powerfull is there to help you.

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

Hence, a neuronal occasion in the human brain prehends the very minute disturbances of the electromagnetic field occasioned by other neuronal occasions in its immediate past, since these «minor» disturbances are absolutely essential for its own reaction (self - constitution).

Our brains no doubt work on the same patterns as other brains in nature, but the human quest for knowledge is not just bounded by the needs of survival.

Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality of human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of other human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»

If consciousness could exist outside of the human brain and wasn't just something produced by the brain interacting with the environment, where would it exist?

While any knowledge of God must indeed be conditioned by human experience, Ashbrook and Albright actually claim much more than this: that the brain not only patterns our experience of God, but its very structure can inform us of God's nature.

To believe that the human brain happened by itself (over any amount of time)... considering the complexity of our brains compared to the modern computer is a little absurd.

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

Needless to say, if the dominant society of human consciousness is small enough to flit through the empty spaces between the brain cells, it must be very small indeed — too small certainly to be seen by the naked eye.

But an extended entity as large as much of the human brain is also large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

If the human stream of occasions of dominating awareness is to be influenced by many regions of the brain at once, and is in turn to exercise control over many such regions, it must be directly in touch (both spatially and temporally) with large portions of the brain.

Introspective self - consciousness involves causal objectification by the dominant occasion of some of the unimaginably large number of concreta making up the human mind / brain, including what can be called the subordinate nonconscious living persons responsible for our habitual behavior, that is, sub-personalities (RHNB 148f).

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

By virtue of a complicated arrangement of cells in the brain, there is at the human level emergent a mental state marked by what I have styled awarenesBy virtue of a complicated arrangement of cells in the brain, there is at the human level emergent a mental state marked by what I have styled awarenesby what I have styled awareness.

On a purely secular view, humans are simply the accidental by - products of natural selection, monkeys who by chance grew brains too big for their own good.

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 neurology.

The key to human nature therefore lies in both the organic inheritance of evolution through the brain, which is instinct with natural law, harmonic order and finely tuned mutual balance, and in the free, dynamic seeking of truth and values and their free administration by the directly created spirit.

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

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.

Imagine an elderly human with brain death and cardiac arrest (mitigated only by mechanical ventilation and pacemaker) with no hope of recovery, death imminent, and no known family.

Some visionaries foresee a laboratory in which disembodied human brains sit in glass - covered saucers connected by electronic gadgetry with a series of computers to produce a super cyborg brain with godlike intelligence.

A corollary of this view, on the part of some scientists, is that the phenomenon of mentality in human beings can be explained by the complex interaction of molecules and atoms in the brain, as epiphenomenon of matter.

Cobb has already alluded to the applicability of this theory to exegeting Whitehead's organic cosmology, arguing that just as the human soul located in the brain may occupy both the empty space in the interstices and the regions occupied by many cells, analogously the region of God includes the regions comprising the standpoints of all contemporary occasions in the world.

The extremely rich (experiential) data provided by the human brain, accordingly, can be thought to allow the emergence of a higher - level actuality, which we call the mind.

At the same time, claiming to know what God is like and how he would react to topical issues like gay marriage is ludicrous as well... by definition, if he is God, he doesn't think along the lines of a human brain, so we will never be able to understand him.

And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.

While I am not aware of significant discussions of this issue among process thinkers, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, who though not directly influenced by process thought nonetheless share the relational vision, have incorporated elements of this, particularly through the use of art, in their own education process in order to stimulate the «right» brain, the intuitive and imaginative capacities of the human mind.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Jesus the Son of Marry (Peace and blessings be up on him) is known today to the Christian world as it is being described by John, Paul, Luke and others... whatever the way these human imagined him became the faith... record shows that the first book of NT was written at least 60 - 80 years after Jesus the son of Marry was taken away from this earth... and these writers used their vision as a weapon to get it to the brain of mankind... also there are debates among the Christian scholars that no one knows who is the writer of some of the gospels... someone else wrote it and used the names what we see today... i.e. no one knows when and who and how the Hebrew chapters were written... despite of lots of controversy on this, Christian scholars uses them to teach others...

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

Just as the discovery that sodium chloride has properties not exhibited by sodium and chlorine in isolation tells us something about the nature of sodium and chlorine which we could not otherwise know, so too the existence of subjectivity in combinations of atoms that make human brains tells us something about the nature of those atoms that make those brains.

In the synthesis of philosophy and science presented by Faith, the evolution of the human brain at a critical juncture, the first homo sapiens, requires an external principle of control, one not determined by material forces, but controlling and directing them.

b We may accept that the human brain reached the limit of its development at the stage which anthropologists call Homo sapiens; or at least, if it has continued to develop since then, that the change can not be detected by our present methods of observation.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

There is a psychological sense of purpose in individual human mind, which likely evolved by natural selection as a property of the human brain which gives advantage to the survival of the human race.

It is for this reason that utopian thinking led some of its modern promoters, such as Arthur Koestler and Carl Sagan, to propose ways of «improving» human beings by biological manipulation such as surgical removal of certain centers in the brain or by genetic engineering to remove «bad» genes.

Please let us know what this evidence is, but remember that it has to stand up to OUTSIDE scrutiny by those of us who know just how much the human brain is unable to process subjective phenomena and things of that sort.