Sentences with phrase «own visual experiences»

The increased computational power that is making all this possible derives not only from Moore's law but also from the realization in the late 2000s that graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia — the powerful chips that were first designed to give gamers rich, 3D visual experiences — were 20 to 50 times more efficient than traditional central processing units (CPUs) for deep - learning computations.

She is driven by a passion for communications and making the world a smaller, more connected space through collective visual experiences.

The Thunderbolt Display hasn't received a meaningful upgrade in quite some time, and although it offers an overall solid visual experience, including a 2,560 - by - 1,440 resolution and a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, there are cheaper alternatives available that boast better specs.

The drones themselves were just a foot long and weighed eight ounces, but thanks to Intel's Shooting Star service, which controls the drones in unison, more than a thousand can take to the sky to create visual experiences.

Given the boost in resolution, and therefore, the better visual experience, Hollywood studios want Apple to charge as much as $ 30 per download, the Journal «s sources say.

And if you want to see nature, pop in Planet Earth II into the device's onboard disc drive to experience a magical visual experience.

CarDekho.com's acquisition of Volob is aimed at amplifying the visual experience of car buyers in both real and virtual settings,» said Amit Jain, co-founder, Girnar Software.

Just as there is a real difference between noticing something already within one's vision and bringing something new within one's visual experience, so there is a real difference between becoming conscious of something already within one's field of experience and introducing something new within the range of one's experience.

Consider, above all, the activity of what Whitehead calls «the final percipient occasion», i.e., the present occasion of human experience, in integrating its present visual experience, with all the complex interpretation involved therein, with previous experiences.

The objects of sense - experience, and in particular those of visual experience, are often passive and bounded in particular regions of space to the exclusion of other regions.

We are forced to recognize that even the most passive of visual experiences are the result of vast unconscious activity.

This idea had quite ready application to Homeric man for whom man was understood as he was given in visual experience.

We can be aware in a general way of the role of our eyes in mediating visual experience, but we have no awareness of the work of the brain or of the process by which its work is translated into our conscious experience.

At this point, however, the chain of bodily events is at an end, and we must consider the relation of the numerous cellular events in the brain to our conscious visual experience.

Describing visual experience as the seeing of sense - data suggests that beliefs about the external world must be reached by a process of inference.

Whitehead, however, is trying to capture that phase of visual experience which intervenes between the stimulation of the senses and perception - based reports about the environment.

I am not suggesting that it makes no difference how you describe visual experience, so long as other people understand the mental state denoted.

This is why those who have recently revived the notion of visual experience, such as John Searle and Christopher Peacocke, have broken away from the traditional story about the awareness of visual sense - data, in favor of the view that perceptual experience has propositional content (Searle) or representational content (Peacocke).2

For Henry, the luxurious decoration of a public square, the luxurious ornamentation of a building, even the luxurious embellishment of one's own person were essentially a matter of enriching our visual experience of the world.

Furthermore, this distancing has its clearest and easiest exemplification in visual experience, and it was in this dimension that the Greeks projected and objectified their gods.

He also brings the scientific vision of a world of electrons and molecules into intelligible relation with the world given us in visual experience.

This is not surprising when we consider how closely the act of distancing was bound up with visual experience, and how a detached and critical interest in form depended on this act of distancing.

They were convinced of this not primarily because some of them had had visual experiences of him, but because the Spirit had come upon them.

The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

We too are convinced that he who died lives still, and in our case too this conviction is not the consequence of visual experiences reported in the Gospels and Epistles, but of the presence of the Spirit in the community.

The individual occasions that make up the grouping are subjects in the immediacy of their becoming, but they have had no visual experience of grayness.

But whereas most modern philosophers have taken as their paradigm case Ms. Smith's visual experience of a physical object, Whitehead takes as the paradigm case the causal efficacy of Ms. Smith's immediately past occasion of experience in the present one, or Ms. Smith's present prehension of that past occasion.

Except in delusive instances, it is derived from those events and in some important way continuous with them; but no event in that region is entertaining the visual experience of that color!

, are propositions about the visual experience of those persons who look in the direction of the stone under appropriate lighting.

The naïve notion that the brown of the rug as such characterizes the rug in itself apart from visual experience can, of course, readily be shown to be absurd.

But that the rug is such that, given suitable lighting, it causes multiple persons to have the visual experience of brown when attending to the region in which it is located is not a naïve view.

If we expect to benefit from the wide variety of audio - visual experiences now available, the media tell us we have to expect the demands, sales pitches, commercials and sheer volume that issue from them.

Consider also his claim that «the right way to think» about a visual experience is that «photons reflected off objects attack the photoreceptor cells of the retina and this sets up a series of neuronal processes (the retina being part of the brain), which eventually result, if all goes well, in a visual experience that is a perception of the very object that originally reflected the photons» (MC 64).

Perhaps all that one can say confidently is that the brain is to consciousness as the eye is to seeing — and without eyes there are manifestly no visual experiences.

A visual experience, for instance, lends itself to description as a complex semiotic process involving transmissions and integrations of signs, or bits of information, to a central organ, the brain, and more localized processes of selection, sorting, and evaluation (i.e., gradations as to relevance of various types of information) that sometimes issue in tentative (and often only vague) interpretations.

Similarly, if our visual experience were completely homogeneous in terms of color, we would not be conscious of that color.

Whitehead's judgment is that within the body there is considerable conformity of the percipient or dominant occasion to the feelings of the other actual occasions it prehends, but that when we go beyond the body, as in our visual experience of colors, any such element of conformity becomes much more doubtful.

In similar fashion Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference implies that Picasso, as a master of visual experience, knows how to control the symbolic medium of the canvas to create desired visual effects on the viewers of his work.

Since Whitehead thinks of every visual experience as a form of selective emphasis, Picasso simply enters to modify the emphasis toward features of the world we might otherwise overlook, or fail to note with proper emphasis.

Generally, it's because food is such a visual experience, that it would be impossible to promote it without photos.

The luminous Silver Saber Belvedere bottles will grab attention from all corners of a club, enhancing the visual experience of an ordinary night out.

The center of guests» visual experience will be the robata grill, consistent with the open - kitchen layout of other Roka Akor locations.

The restaurant's design features a centrally located robata grill that provides the heart of the visual experience, surrounded by rich wood décor and sleek lighting.

Email, text messaging, and other technologically driven options offer convenience, but you can't beat the tactile and visual experience of paper.

And last in my list of the best apps for blogging, for the old - school, and those who love the proper, full visual experience, bookmarks on Safari do the job.

Bento boxes allow a really nice visual experience as your child eats their meal.

Using Photicular technology, each image is like a 3 - D movie on the page, delivering a rich, fluid visual experience.

The Tiny Love projector baby mobile plays 30 minutes of sweet - sounding lullabies or white noise with adjustable volume that complement the projector soother's visual experience.

With specific reference to the UK, research suggests that women have very little visual experience of breastfeeding, and that this influences both the initiation and duration of breastfeeding (Dykes and Griffiths, 1998).

A little slow to load, but an impressive visual experience with a great social media angle.