Sentences with phrase «own subjective experience»

Research shows that approximately 40 percent of everyday speech is spent telling other people what we think or feel — basically, talking about our subjective experiences.

While nothing had physically changed about either group's commute — the traffic was just as snarled, the train just as unreliable, etc. — their subjective experience of their commutes differed significantly.

«Ambient scent may lead to an enhanced subjective experience for retail shoppers... the time consumers spend examining merchandise, waiting in lines, or waiting for help may be made to seem shorter than it actually is by introducing ambient scent into the environment,» the study read.

Research shows approximately 40 percent of everyday speech is spent telling other people what we think or feel — basically, talking about our subjective experiences.

The third category deals with things that would not convince him at all: speaking in tongues or other pseudo-miracles; people's conversion stories; any subjective experience; the Bible Code or other numerological feats, creationism of any sort.

I don't accept anybody else's subjective experiences because I have some idea about how easily the human brain can fool itself into experiencing things that aren't real.

«Inside of a dog,» as Mark Twain sagely observed, «it's too dark to read,» and the inside of the subjectively subjective experience has no outside to speak of.

Though the confessional holds its secrets, this is, I suspect, the common actual experience of the sacrament: a subjective experience of being objectively re-ordered and turned around in one's spiritual bearing and moral direction.

A billion subjective experiences are not evidence, otherwise we would run our lives on common dreams.

One can deny the validity of such analogy only if one rejects the notion that events are initially and primarily formulations of subjective experience.

The solution remains mathematically deficient in an important sense until the mathematician has spelled it out, i.e., has set it out in an explicit, discursive form which stands on its own merits, independent of the particular subjective experience whose objective content the mathematician has sought to display in the explicit formulae.

True and our own subjective experience of reality makes it even tougher.

Among living things, those that have integrated subjective experience, or souls, have special value.

Procreation may often still be seen as a good thing, even the ideal, but it is the subjective experience of loving that is primary in this approach.

That could be judged only by one who could share the subjective experience of both.

There are levels of subjective experience which intervene between the togetherness of organic structures and the togetherness of unified focal attention.

I think this Franciscan teaching may hold a useful key to biblical interpretation that helps us put our subjective experiences and religious formation in perspective:

If Gnosticism is the paradigmatic modern temptation — spiritualizing Jesus by turning him into a subjective experience — Mormonism runs in the exact opposite direction.

Explanation for subjective experience is sought in brain activity.

Do you think there is actually a qualitative difference between Christianity and other alternatives when it comes to how much sense they make of life, or is it maybe mainly a matter of subjective experience, and of culture?

If you want to validate the God claim this way — as a subjective experience, basically a human emotion or idea — then I actually agree.

The possibility that subjective experience participates as a causal agent in the process is hardly considered.

Who could fail to be moved by Whitehead's radically challenging conjunction if not identification of matter - of - fact entities and subjective experience?

None of the data we've collected explains why the blob between your ears is producing a subjective experience.

Your reason for not believing in human evil is your own, limited, finite, subjective experience.

So we've gone tit for tat, your subjective experience vs mine.

We understand that cutting a chunk out of your brain alters your subjective experience.

They are also invariably conditioned by the visionary's own subjective experience.

I'm almost sure yr aware of how unverifiable this statement is outside of yr subjective experience of it and you claim to witness the same subjectivity in others.

On the negative side, no living person had any subjective experience of death, and on the positive side, the dead person who appeared and spoke to him in his dreams seemed just as alive as ever.

«Nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 166).»

To say that «the world is my body» is to say that the world forms me in the same way that my body forms part of the content of my immediate subjective experience.

Unlike a traditional realist, Whitehead can not conceive of the world apart from prehending subjects and their subjective experiences.

It also accepts Hume's doctrine that nothing is to be received into the philosophical scheme which is not discoverable as an element in subjective experience» (PR 253).

Still the subjective experience of satisfaction is the result of the interaction of the system with its environment and signals the successful adjustment to environmental circumstances.

This leaves Ford's «eschaton» with a decidedly secondary ontological status: can it be anything more than one arbitrarily chosen moment in the continuing subjective experience of God?

Prehension, therefore, is much more compatible with the concept of fungierende Intentionalität («operative,» or I prefer «primordial,» intentionality), which is inherent in a Lebenswelt and which is the condition for all subjective experience.

(For Bingham the traditional concepts of religion are principally about subjective experience — and ecstatic experience at that.)

He lists four distinct analyses of time in Western philosophy:» (I) time as a space - like extended dimension, or as an actual series; (2) time as recurrent periodic motion; (3) time as progressive maturity or age; and (4) time as a distention of the soul, awareness of the sequences of states and events that make up our subjective experience» (WPP 65).

It is a «theology of consciousness» instead of a «theology of facts,» for God «can never be known apart from subjective experience.»

But because we focus on subjective experience as the locus of value, and because we believe that human experiences are the richest on this planet, we also affirm of human beings a quite distinct and special status.

For Whiteheadians, more than for most others in the ecological movement, the fact that human subjective experience is fully natural, points to the pervasiveness of subjective experience in nature.

There are contexts in which we want to speak of an individual existing through time — certainly our subjective experience prompts us to speak in this manner.

Knowledge of God is never possible apart from subjective experience, but it is always more than subjective experience.

A second way in which the transitions of the self are disclosed is through the memory of past subjective experiences.

Now the inspection of subjective experience reveals a number of objects woven together into the unity that is this occasion of experience.

Heidegger and Whitehead both see that subjective experience has wrongly been envisioned in past philosophy in terms of models derived from objects of sense - experience.

One's subjective experience is not something others can observe, and yet it is constantly occurring as the very essence of one's process of existence.

The word «doing» points to the active side of subjective experience and to the bodily actions that issue from that active side.

Though it is not at all impossible that Aristotle took certain clues from the examination of subjective experience to guide him in his investigation of nature at large, what he clearly did not do was take the subjective experience as a model for the essential constitution of the basic entities of the universe.