Sentences with phrase «on conscious thought»

With respect to my major concern in this paper, I believe that noone can actually avoid believing that she or he is intimately involved with a physical body whose reality is not dependent on conscious thought.

Griffin further challenges the assumption of a «human monopoly on conscious thought» by noting that current experiments indicate that animals produce «event related potentials» which resemble those produced by human beings.

Not exact matches

«Stress causes the brain intake systems to send information into the Reactive brain (automatic - fight, flight, freeze) and prevents information flow through to the Reflective higher thinking, conscious brain (prefrontal cortex) where long - term memory is constructed,» explains neurologist Judy Willis on Psychology Today.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

And while it's easy to dwell on the negatives, we think it's also worth sharing some of the more positive steps people are taking to create a more inclusive and socially conscious tech community.

I've been on the record saying I think ESG will continue to be important, and sure, we'll see more ETFs targeting ESG - conscious investors, and we'll see more focus on governance and stewardship from the big players.

A popular one these days is to treat conscious will as an illusion — we think that we have acted deliberately toward some end, but in fact our brain acted on its own and then deceived us into thinking that we acted deliberately.

Science has it 100 % right on this fact, the human brain is what enables us to process any conscious thought.

Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

To re-read after an interval of more than a decade the preceding meditation is to be conscious of the extent to which my thinking on the topics with which it dealt has moved and has become much less confident, the outlines far less secure.

In respect to the way these potentialities or «abstract entities» are actualized, Collingwood, however, makes a distinction between actualization on the conscious level of thought and on the non-conscious level of material reality.

On the matter of justice, Harris thinks the only thing wrong with injustice is that it is bad for the conscious well - being of others.

The atoms and molecules from which life has been fashioned are universal; life itself exists in myriad forms on this planet and may exist on myriad other planets in this galaxy and in countless others, but a conscious mind capable of thinking and feeling is unique on Earth and may be unmatched in the whole of the universe.

Revolutionary as much of this was in the history of human thinking, yet, in surveying it, one is conscious of a certain impatience to get on to the basic problem that confronts us in this discussion: What were the processes of thought by which Israel came to such views?

Basically, his solution takes the form of distinguishing two different levels of human experience, or of more or less conscious thinking about experience, on only the deeper of which is there an experience of God that is both direct and universal.

On the one hand, he claims that our concept of «know» comes partly from «some dim but direct awareness of deity,» which may often be driven below the level of conscious thought, even if it is never wholly absent there; in a word, we have a feeling of God as distinct from thinking or knowing God (1970a, 155; cf. 1962, 110).

The distinction Hartshorne insists on making here as applied to our present question can be expressed by saying that, whereas mere experience or feeling of God can be not only direct but immediate, high - level thought or cognition of God, being mediated, as it is, by the conscious judgment or interpretation of such feeling, is of necessity mediate.

Because I have great sympathies for this line of thought, I am often self - conscious of how mainline Protestant traditions - including the one in which I carry out my ministry - have failed to articulate the beauty of traditional church teachings on sexuality.

To be sure, this need not mean conscious dependence on special sources, such as Philo of Alexandria, as has been commonly thought, nor need it reveal any thoroughgoing knowledge of NeoPlatonic philosophy.

Monad's were for Leibniz just as real on the subhuman, even subanimal, levels, as on the human level; they were merely much less capable of thought and definite conscious recollections and perceptions, more limited to simple feeling and extremely short - run memory of what has just happened.

I don't think I'm ever going to have that kind of time on my hands again, but I do make a conscious effort to spend moments doing nothing — not planning, not worrying about my career, not cleaning the kitchen or alphabetizing books.

«They can communicate that thoughtfulness to the public so people can be more conscious about selecting the product, focusing on not just what's inside, but how the packaging was thought out and how it should be either used or discarded, and how it improves the functionality of the package.»

Most of them are very conscious of this and try hard to write on the package if they think it might be a problem.

- She fell, thinks hit head on railing - Seemed «knocked out» - Elevator opened, she wasn't conscious, pulled her out - Security there almost immediately.

i personally think hes missing on purpose to make everyone else not feel self conscious they they couldnt score.

Conscious thought is too slow; I have to rely on subconscious realizations.

I don't think we beat City nor that it will be a particularly entertaining game; I see City with 70 % possession (because we can't press in midfield and can't hold the ball when we win it) and I see Guardiola being very conscious of our counter-attack capabilities, we'll have less than a half dozen shots on target.

I think people on both sides feel judged and self - conscious about their choices and sometimes that means discussions about it escalate more quickly, and people take things personally that are not intended that way.

In the fall of 2012, the N.F.L. invited me to its New York City headquarters to present a proposal to the league on ways that I thought MomsTEAM could help them preserve and strengthen the sport of youth football, in part by educating parents, and especially safety - conscious moms, about the dangers of concussions and ways in which the risk of concussion could be reduced.

Without conscious management on our parts, fear can permeate our thoughts — and poison our relationships with our children.

Now, I'll give the readers here credit for catching the part where they flashed up on the screen a nice graphic stating that you COULD put an extra ice pack or two into the lunch and probably «decrease the risk,» but I think talking about how not even an ice pack, or refrigeration at many day cares, is enough to keep your child from possibly coming down with foodborne illness could be enough to make some less conscious parents throw up their hands in disgust and say «I give up.»

I think the bottom line is the need to be conscious and aware as you speak to your child, not on automatic pilot.

My closest friend had set herself on a journey to lose her baby weight and get fit several months before this, and I (with lots of self - conscious laughing) thought «I don't need to do that!

I think my first encounter with her was seeing her Ted Talk on Conscious Parenting.

Too many moms get stuck in their depression and think that there's something wrong with them or that their babies are better off without them, so we're glad Hayden and other celebrities have spoken out on the subject and made other women feel less self - conscious about getting the help they need for themselves and their families.

I am interested in living a life conscious of my thoughts and my actions and leaving as light a footprint as I can on our beautiful planet.

It is as though an unconscious part of the mind was able to drive the car, avoid danger, speed up and slow down as necessary, while the conscious mind went off on a brief vacation thinking about something else.

On the down side, this conscious and strategic effort of Bagbin to project John Mahama also cost him some friends amongst the Minority MPs who thought Bagbin favored a Northern brother at the expense of other equally qualified NDC MPs.

Johnson said: «It is perfectly true that I had thought «res ipsa loquitur» [the matter speaks for itself], just get on and do the job, but I was conscious that people wanted me to contribute to the public debate.

«I think the landscape has shifted in regards to people being more in tune, being more aware and just being more conscious of what's going on in our political debate,» he said.

Martin was responsible for coming up with this idea, then testing it in healthy volunteers before trying it out on people thought to be in a minimally conscious state.

Speech is often seen as needing a leap in conscious thought - processing abilities, but it is also dependent on complex movements of the lips and tongue becoming automatic.

The zombie mind may take over simple, repetitive tasks from our conscious mind, leaving the latter free to focus on the kinds of thought we do best with self - awareness.

On the other hand, explicitly instructing people to think about logic - related ideas, tapping into their conscious mind, did make them perform better on logic testOn the other hand, explicitly instructing people to think about logic - related ideas, tapping into their conscious mind, did make them perform better on logic teston logic tests.

«Behavioral sciences were dominated until fairly recently,» says Ulrich, «by theories that put emphasis on conscious, deliberate thinking as a source of feelings.

A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»

DO YOU THINK that your newest acquisition, a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner that traces out its unpredictable paths on your living room floor, is conscious?

«On the contrary, I think that we need to come to terms with fear because the conscious feeling of fear is a key part of human experience and an important factor in psychopathology.

On the basis of recent insights into the characteristics of conscious and unconscious thought, we tested the hypothesis that simple choices (such as between different towels or different sets of oven mitts) indeed produce better results after conscious thought, but that choices in complex matters (such as between different houses or different cars) should be left to unconscious thought.

It was easy for people to see that being manipulated negated Jill's free will, but even when her behaviour was totally predictable, people still thought she acted on her own conscious reasoning, and so was responsible for her actions (Cognition, doi.org/vvc).