Sentences with phrase «of the organisms which»

In speaking of the bodily event, Whitehead, not without contradiction, states: «This event [the bodily event] is the life of that organism which links the percipient's awareness to external nature» (PNK 80).

Pure instinctive action is that functioning of an organism which is wholly analyzable in terms of those conditions laid upon its development by the settled facts of its external environment....

«Coherence,» he writes, «means no mere sameness but sameness in difference: not the unity of grains of sand, but of parts of an organism which complement each other but are not all cast in the same mold.»

By including seventy - one abstract works from 1905 to 1968, by fifty American and European artists, the exhibition attempted to give aesthetic content to the science of biology, specifically to the study of organisms which lie beyond the range of unaided vision.

Not exact matches

The Great Barrier Reef has been damaged by agricultural runoff from farms and by coral - devouring crown - of - thorns starfish, which liquify coral organisms.

Bolt is only one startup using such technologies, which let scientists reengineer the genetics of living organisms to make products ranging from food sweeteners to «leather» to woodlike composites.

Not sure what you mean by «genetic information», but evolution requires changes in the genes of the next generation of organism, which is exactly what happens with gene duplication, transposition, etc..

There's nothing in the theory of evolution which says an intermediate form (or any organism, for that matter) can have only one line of descendents, or that the intermediate form itself has to go extinct when a line of descendents evolves.

You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which by the way required the loss of genetic material — to have happened regardless of the amount of time you had.

The evidence is simply overwhelming and of various different types: the fossil record, the genetic code, experimental confirmations, structures in living organisms which are of no current use but once were, faulty «designs» that are explained by «blind evolution» but that no sentient being would create, predictions that are tested based one the hypothesis it has occurred etc..

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

The fossil record simply does not support the evolutionary theory, which claims there once existed a series of successive forms leading to the present - day organism.

How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves can not be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.»

To the contrary, it is more fantastic than we can imagine — hundreds of billions (trillions) of galaxies with hundreds of billions (trillions) of stars, nearly all of which have planets, some right for life; planets so hot that they rain glass; stars made of diamonds; the lineage of animals from singled celled organisms to the incredible variety that exists today with their unique adaptations.

Wolf likewise notes that the electromagnetic field which is the brain seems to be part of a still greater field of activity which is the total physical organism:

But it is the organism itself as a unified field of activity which thereby continues to exist and undergo various changes.

I get what you're saying and in essence, I agree, the church seems to the world a myopic organism, focused less on the work of the church in Acts which provided real spiritual and physical care for the masses, and more on church culture and agenda.

In this way of thinking, the momentary actualization of the organism, its becoming, is the fundamental note from which the melody of development is composed.

The only answer which is plausible can be given by the biological theory of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out of the whole physical reality only that zone which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.

The consensus on the evolution of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.

Just as the flow of a stream is determined by a specific landscape, so it seems that the growth and development of the proteins follow an «epigenetic landscape» which is extraneous to the physico - chemical forces that energize the growth process.8 And just as the geographical landscape is extraneous to the flow of water by the power of gravitation, so the epigenetic landscape is extraneous to the «flow» of energized matter operating by physico - chemical forces in the organism's epigenesis.

According to one of his analogies: just as the sequence of letters on a page is extraneous to the chemistry of ink and paper, so the sequence of nucleic acids in the DNA molecule (which, when translated, determines the shape of an organism and its specific characteristics) is extraneous to the chemical forces operative in the genetic process.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

According to this account, the human being is a single total organism with many specialized functions, amongst which are thinking and feeling (generally regarded as operations of the soul in the traditional view).

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

The death instinct or Nirvana principle according to Freud brings us to the «blissful isolation of intrauterine existence,» an existence which seems to be the «prototype of the state of peace and freedom from tension, to which, in accordance with the Nirvana principle, or death instinct, it seems to be the aim of the organism to return.»

I realize that the totality of all perfections, even natural perfections, is the necessary basis for that mystical and ultimate organism which you are constructing out of all things.

Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism.

Instead, this freedom is found in the person who sees herself as a part of one spiritual organism, which is the church.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

But there are major organs, the loss of any one of which brings death to the whole organism.

Thus, just as the loss of an essential organ brings the death of the whole organism, so the death of the physical organism brings to an end those psychical or spiritual aspects of a man which are usually thought of as characterizing his uniqueness.

This we may readily concede, and many neurologists, psychologists, biochemists etc., would willingly agree; but no understanding of man can be any longer satisfactory, which is content to ignore what these sciences have taught us about the nature of man as a psychosomatic organism.

The manner in which the letters of this code are patterned determines the way in which the proteins of an organism (composed of amino acids) will be structured.

It's an expression of the leader's trust in the releasable inner resources of each individual, trust in the group as a potentially helpful organism, and trust in the process by which the people dynamic in individuals and groups is released.

That is, he can (and observably he often does) elect to live in self - contained ways, denying his drive towards fulfillment in manhood, failing to share in rich commonalty with his fellows, seeking satisfactions which are so partial, limited, and defective that they impede and damage his basic drive as a total personal organism — an organism which is on the way to realization of its richest and widest possibilities.

What makes DNA do its work is not its chemistry but the order of the bases along the DNA chain: It is this order which is a code to be read out by the developing organism.

Or one may say that mechanism has yielded to organism, to the creativity of relationships which are at once internal and external, yet neither one nor the other at any one given moment of time.

The very phrase, a «philosophy of organism,» used by Whitehead so often to capture the tenor of his approach, remains a challenge to attend to the interconnectedness and interdependence which deserves to be appreciated as contributing substantively to any organic whole.

Such is Locke's conclusion, a conclusion which one might conceivably interpret as an objection to the very possibility of a philosophy of organism along the lines laid out by Whitehead.

You can not have the formation of crystals, you can not have the formation of living organisms, unless you are in a universe in which the entropy is increasing.

My efforts here, then, have a limited but basic objective: to argue that the doctrine of relativity implies the repeatability of all entities, including actual entities, and to begin to exhibit the extent to which Whitehead's philosophy of organism is built on the tenet that even particulars are repeatable.

There are long passages in the last chapter of Science and the Modern World, for instance, which could easily have served as the source of some of Leopold's ideas, and which suggest that Leopold's notion of community could be derived from Whitehead's theory of organism without much difficulty.

Cells with nuclei, called eukaryotic cells (which make up virtually all multi-cellular organisms) are much larger and more complex that prokaryotic cells and likely resulted from the early combining of prokaryotic cells.

There is also a significant programmatic statement, similar in intent with the analogy of organism, which proposes that matter, life, and mind are the «dominant characteristics» of the universe and each has universal applicability (SB 131).

At that point in Science and the Modern World where Whitehead observes: «The relation of part to whole has the special reciprocity associated with the notion of organism, in which the part is for the whole»; he confirms: «but this relation reigns throughout nature and does not start with the special case of the higher organisms» [SMW 149].

We hold that those occasions responding to basic pulses or to the lure of a particular past particle form the elementary particles, which in turn form the atoms, which in turn form the molecules, which in turn form the more complex molecules of primitive organisms, which in turn form the one - celled organisms, which in turn form the multi-celled organisms, which, finally, in turn form the more complex organisms, persons.

This essay has sought to indicate not only numerous points of agreement between Whitehead and Sullivan, but also the valuable theoretical contribution which Whitehead's philosophy of organism can make to the ongoing development of personality theory.

Lowe's point is well founded, for William James's works contain many insights which have important affinities to Whitehead's philosophy of organism.

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.