Sentences with phrase «on subjective realities»

Author and synesthesia expert David Eagleman on subjective realities, the genes behind mixed sensory experiences, and taking stock of the condition that everyone wants.

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«I dimly recall that I inhabit a sty and devour the coarsest of food — but the subjective reality is that I inhabit a glorious palace and dine on splendid viands among the princes and princesses who are my peers.»

Given that faith is subjective to the individual and based on their own interpreations of what their faith is, it's impossible for it to be a reliable tool to determine what is in fact, despite our perceptions, the reality of the situation.

When an occasion has appeared, when it has fully come to be, it loses its subjective immediacy, its process of decision, its feeling of self - possession; for the feeling of self - possession consists precisely in deciding on the appearance of one's own reality.

In relation to the contemporary tendency to psychologize the sacrament, this understanding of the reality of the past and its causally effective presence supports the theological consensus of a presence not dependent on the subjective state of the worshipers.

The subjective emphasis on reality construction and personal meaning has pointed toward inner moods and motivations — phenomena that elude the usual methods of documentation and verification in the social sciences.

And I do oppose any attempt to force one's subjective understanding of reality on anyone else.

If the reality of subjective experience is acknowledged at all, it is held to be fully caused by physical events and to have no reciprocal causal influence on them.

Myth therefore employs subjective means derived from the human imagination to describe a reality which utterly transcends consciousness, and which possesses an objective validity in its own right, quite apart from its effects on the disciples and witnesses.

Both claim to be in a possession of the Truth they can not possess, arguing their subjective, arrogant, conceptual point of view (opinion), based on their extremely limited and bias perception of Reality.

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

On a more metaphysically fundamental level, Whitehead's «philosophy of organism also regards knowing as a special case of the «bipolar» nature of all becoming, whereby the direct «physical» response to objective reality is partially transformed by «mental» functioning in the realization of a novel subjective experience.

In chapter 4, the emergence of the notion of «subjective aim» in the early concept of God of Process and Reality is shown on the basis of passages from Process and Reality 224 and 244.

Expertly grounded in the social - scientific study of religion, yet ultimately reliant on subjective existential arguments, it does more than suggest the presence of a higher reality.

Finally, you mentioned that people consistently agree on the color green and use this as a premise for concluding that things, like color, are not subjective or arbitrary and therefore must be rooted in reality.

For another aspect of the «complete agreement» with Bradley which Whitehead records on the subject of «perishing» resides in his readiness to endorse Bradley's view that there is a final «reality» which contains the subjective immediacy of all feeling - centers without loss or diminution (PR 350f.

Your posts are not based on the reality and very subjective.

The virtual reality of the era — real VR gear was used on set — had a certain subjective charm and thrill that did live up to the hype at that time.

I greatly enjoyed Matthew Chalmers's article on the subjective nature of reality and how «quantum weirdness is all in the...

Still, he is confident that the process of building on these algorithms may one day explain the ultimate riddle of the brain — how sensory data gets transformed into a subjective awareness of reality.

Subjective measures matter, because it's your reality — and that has an effect on health.»

In the search for reality (either subjective or documented), the film is also curious about the process of the actor — a thematic piece that blends seamlessly to the film's themes of being watched if not so much with its ideas on our cultural media climate.

Reality: Proficiency levels on Common Core tests are subjective, like all performance levels.

Central to Freud's thinking is the idea «of the primacy of the unconscious mind in mental life,» so that all subjective reality was based on the play of basic drives and instincts, through which the outside world was perceived.

The exhibition catalogue included a statement in which the artist declares that, as he recreates a landscape on canvas, it «undergoes a free transformation from objective reality to a subjective realization of personal vision.»

The vibrant series provides a visual discussion on the topics of human memory, our perception of reality and the creation of a subjective, distorted reality on social media.

Shown across five monitors, the work seeks to create an alternate reality in which five totemic entities recite an eerily subjective poem.A second piece of work utilises the cables from each of the five monitors, so that they become an integral part of a large black and white paper collage displayed on the other side of the wall, questioning what is the back, what is the front, and what the subject is?

Focusing primarily on painters active in the second half of the twentieth century, including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, F.N. Souza and Euan Uglow, the book begins by introducing the previous generation of artists, such as Walter Richard Sickert, David Bomberg, Alberto Giacometti, Chaïm Soutine, Stanley Spencer and William Coldstream, who set a new path for portraying an intimate, subjective and tangible reality.

Focusing primarily on painters active in the second half of the twentieth century, including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, F.N. Souza and Euan Uglow, the book begins by introducing the previous generation of artists, such as Walter Richard Sickert, David Bomberg, Alberto Giacometti, Chaim Soutine, Stanley Spencer and William Coldstream, who set a new path for portraying an intimate, subjective and tangible reality.

In assessing the existence of a real and immediate risk for the purposes of Art 2, the issue did not depend on the subjective concerns of the applicant, but on the reality of the existence of the risk.

This new school of psychology emphasized the centrality of the individual's subjective creation of reality, based on the need to experience life through a holistic gestalt of otherwise chaotic, overwhelming data - points of sensory input (Saner, 1989).

Unfortunately, book learning leading to uni-dimensional subjective theories of how competitve business ventures «must» operate in future uncharted territory, when imposed almost via fiat by czarist government civil service folks lacking hands - on experience in relevant disciplines, creates a situation whereby personal political views are juxtaposed against reality.