Sentences with phrase «of the human mind attempting»

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The medieval field of alchemy — the attempt to change base metals into gold and to find the philosopher's stone capable of bringing about human perfection, even immortality — is ludicrous to the modern mind, a relic of a prescientific time.

All of the stories from all of Man's scriptures are fully accounted for, and so revolutionarily superseded, by Pandeism, which demonstrates the logical probability of all of these nonuniversal propostions as simply reflecting the miscomprehensions of the limited human mind in attempting to grasp an ultimate underlying reality.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

The existence of the human «stream of consciousness» to which these belong is not denied, as it is by those monistic behaviorisms and materialisms which attempt to avoid Cartesian dualism while still not questioning Cartesian metaphysical analyses of «matter» and «mind.»

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

Throughout the centuries, others have attempted to carry out Hobbes's project; the attempt to understand the human mind in terms of the structure and functions of computers is but one of the more recent strategies for completing the Copernican Revolution along the lines charted by Hobbes.

What we do argue is that the human search for knowledge of the ultimate metaphysical truths, that is, for the reality on which all things depend for their being, and the Christian attempt to clarify what we have found disclosed to us in Christ, are two complementary sides of the same story, the story of God's self - disclosure to the mind of man.

Out of this movement, a vision of the cosmos is emerging that is at once more purposeful, more respectful of the mysteries of nature, and more cognizant of the limitations of the human mind in attempting to comprehend it.

«27 Professor Calhoun warns all sentimental humanitarians not to forget the «cruel puzzle» that truth - seeking and generosity can get man into trouble.28 The human mind frequently seems to break down at the attempt to make valid practical judgments among the goods and evils of experience.

Surely you assert that all but one of them are all fabricated by the creative minds of humans attempting to explain life's mysteries?

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).

The Cambridge historian, H. Butterfield, has said of the Old Testament «Altogether we have here the greatest and most deliberate attempts ever made to wrestle with destiny and interpret history and discover meaning in the human drama; above all to grapple with the moral difficulties that history presents to the religious mind.»

This is an in - depth and far - reaching conversation that includes dialogue about euthanasia, blood transfusions, medical experimentation without consent, research fraud, vaccines as biological weapons, autism, the rape of autistic children, the rape of medical patients — especially during hospital birth, birth trauma, trauma - based mind - control, circumcision, satanism / luciferianism, psychopathy, Agenda 21, and the deliberate attempt to kill and / or render infertile and / or genetically mutate the human race.

The ability to erase traumatic memories in humans, as shown in the film «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» remains science fiction for now and any attempt to do so would raise serious ethical considerations.

Of course, this is inevitably subjective; an attempt to read the minds of humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago from the scant markings they left behind — if they were from our species at alOf course, this is inevitably subjective; an attempt to read the minds of humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago from the scant markings they left behind — if they were from our species at alof humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago from the scant markings they left behind — if they were from our species at alof thousands of years ago from the scant markings they left behind — if they were from our species at alof years ago from the scant markings they left behind — if they were from our species at all.

Teachers conducting these classes work with the core concepts of Hatha, meaning that they consider the lunar and solar systems of the human body and with the help of Hatha yoga techniques, they attempt to bring a balance between the mind, body, spirit.

Gamer (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, revolving around the attempt of a human gladiator (Gerard Butler) to free himself from the clutches of a deadly mind - control game invented by a voyeuristic, reclusive billionaire (Michael C. Hall) which pits people against each other.

This moving work provides insight into the mind of a tormented genius attempting to understand an elusive aspect of human nature.

This is Reign of Cthulhu's frankly slightly weak attempt to mimic how important the fragility of the human mind is within Lovecraft's work, the idea being that dealing with the many horrors takes its toll on the brains of mere mortals, driving them utterly insane.

Whether it is two minds attempting to solve a puzzle or a tense head - to - head battle, these games wouldn't be the same without a bunch of humans running around killing, maiming, or, occasionally (very occasionally), helping each other.

Alternately, the piece can be read more abstractly as a map of flat, tangential relationships or symbolically, bringing to mind both the historical astronomers Tycho Brahe's and Johannes Kepler's diagrams, which attempted to prove Copernican astronomy, and Nancy Holt's Dark Star Park (1984), an earth work that simultaneously illuminates and mystifies the human relationship to celestial bodies.

Ultimately I attempt to demonstrate the unending ability of the human mind to re-imagine and re-create its world through utopian landscapes.

His work can be seen as an attempt to visually articulate a great epistemological challenge: that of the human mind encountering the intellectually imponderable.

-LSB-...]... To allow ourselves to be inhabited by what left our field, perhaps our visual field; around us, in the hole inside us, we learn the fullness of other dimensions of existence...... The spaces left empty are the place of the most intense energy, emanations, auras, tensions, thoughts and the fascinations of the human presence... -LSB-...] The drawn objects serve as a backdrop for creating states of mind, from which the attempt at concentration, at falling inside, at finding the rhythm, the exhaustion through rhythm and the reaching of a conclusion which is a static stage before a new beginning.»

His work attempts to give form and purpose to our hyper connected world and reveals it as information driven reality where digital technologies are embedded in everyday life and feed a human desire to surpass the limitations of body and mind.

If I attempt to put myself in the position of a robot from Mars who doesn't know anything about the climate change debate except that it seems important to humans, I don't believe I could conclude that anyone was «taken to the cleaners» in this exchange (assuming a robot from Mars knows what that expression means:) I think I'd have to conclude that both participants were framing the issue in different ways and so there wasn't a meeting of minds, nor any change of the needle by either one on the attitudes of the other, nor likely much to help inform locals who were just as mystified by the debate as I was.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

It is arguable that my imposing a longer licence period in respect of these prisoners, Art 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights is engaged, although bearing in mind recent cases attempting to highlight differences between the 1991 and CJA 2003 regimes, it is unlikely that such arguments will find favour with the courts, but we shall see!

Additionally, the future of mandatory detention is bound to create many legal challenges, as different courts rule on particular issues, and I imagine that this will stay top of mind as advocates attempt to shed light on these practices, and remind the adjudicators of the United States» international commitments from a human rights perspective.