Sentences with phrase «physical human limits»

They are masterfully shot, and capture not only the physical, hardcore aspect of climbing, but the true ethos behind the sport as well: Documenting the expansion of both mental and physical human limits.

Not exact matches

Can God violate His own laws set to limit the human or physical world?

Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.

Then increasingly complex forms of life evolve until this process arrives at an upper limit of complexity: The process produces a physical organ, the human brain that is becoming too complex to draw its life - pattern from a purely material environment.

The first contradiction is that of the physical limits set by the natural environment and the second is that of the limits of human exploitation.

Science (like Atheists) forgets they are limited by their own perspective, their literal physical position as a human being here on Earth.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

But to the sports and exercise scientists, the Olympic Games are bound to represent one of the most wonderful examples of how science may be used to push further the limits of the human body and the human mind — enhancing physical abilities, stretching our perception of the possible, and bringing faith into dreams.

Our bodies are limited by the sensitivity of the human eye, but we have expanded our searches by manipulating the pixels of more sensitive cameras, and can thus capture evidence of real physical phenomena with our machines.

For example, the structural integrity of tiny blood vessels, the physical limits of synthetic tubing, the complex molecular exchange between fetus and placenta, and the often - poor outcomes of premature infants (despite receiving today's most cutting - edge interventions) all speak to the immeasurably complex science attending fetal viability outside the human womb.

Because at the end of the day, the majority of us humans don't have the flexibility — in terms of both our time availability and physical limits — to pop into a yoga pose in the middle of the day when things get rough.

Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Tomb Raider delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

The character, who has been around since the»60s, initially possessed superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, flight, physical durability, a limited precognitive «sixth sense», and a perfectly amalgamated human / Kree physiology that rendered her resistant to most toxins and poisons, with the added effect of making her body virtually invulnerable and indestructible.

Drawing on her extensive experiences as an animal behaviorist, Frost teaches you that training your dog should not be a tedious chore limited to exerting physical and psychological control over an animal's drives, but instead an enriching and spiritually fulfilling experience — gratifying for both human and animal.

Having been confined for years with no or limited exercise, socialization and human contact results in severe physical and mental / behavioral conditions.

Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, TOMB RAIDER delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

TOMB RAIDER ® Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system, Windows PC Developer: Crystal Dynamics (Square Enix Group) ESRB: RP (Rating Pending) Available: Q1 2013 Armed with only the raw instincts and physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, TOMB RAIDER delivers an intense and gritty story into the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to a hardened survivor.

Be it the limits of the human body or the cosmos, Quinn's work explores the materiality of the human condition, our agency in shaping ourselves despite physical constraints and the strange intelligence that seems to govern our world.

Featuring work ranging from cut - photograph collage to an exploration of life - extending artificial intelligence, the exhibition considers our enduring impulse to push against the limits of the discrete human body — from stretching the boundaries of representation to anticipating a future in which our consciousness is not bound to a physical body at all.

Since the 1970s, Senga Nengudi has explored the social and physical limits of the human body by alluding to gender and race through abstract sculptures and improvisational performances.

Senga Nengudi's work considers «the social and physical limits of the human body by alluding to gender and race through abstract sculptures and improvisational performances.»

Flowing over and out of their gilded frames» physical limits, these three - dimensional paintings capture grotesque scenes with animals, half - human figures and invented beasts that represent Gutheil's continued exploration of excess, exaggeration, chaos, and figurative painting.

This volume provides an overview of the artist's work of the last 10 years, with commentary on Taylor - Wood's exploration of such themes as the inner psyche, vulnerability — both emotional and physical — suspended states of being and the aspiration to transcend human limits.

Some of the works push the limits of physical gravity very literally, and other works explore gravity metaphorically, as they refer to the limitations, fragility and endurance of the body, and the weight of human relationships.

Many too many economists, politicians and their super-rich benefactors would have us believe that Earth can indefinitely sustain people conspicuously consuming its limited resources the way millions of fortunate people worldwide are doing; but I fear these «dreamers» have lost their reality - orientation with regard both to human biological limits and the limitations of the bounded physical world we inhabit.

With CNC machines, human input is limited to the creation of a digital design on a computer, which is then automatically converted into a physical object by the machine tool.

A limiting factor in quantitative musings about physical mechanisms is insufficient human knowledge of clouds (and hence insolation [not to be confused with irradiance]-RSB--RRB-.

One of the ways our world differs from the quantum world shows up in these rotations and vibrations of «diatomic molecules» — molecules made up of two atoms: while human dancers can spin or move back and forth as fast or slow as they wish (within the limits of their physical capabilities), molecules can only vibrate or rotate at specific rates — their motions are «quantized.»

They limited and distorted what was examined by Working Group 1, The Physical Science Basis to human causes of climate change, but that meant their Report identified all the limitations of data, method, computer models, and analysis.

They calculated that temperature changes in the last decades may affect human physical limits.

Importantly, we have recently shown that differential DNA methylation of the serotonin transporter gene promoter (SLC6A4) in T cells and monocytes is associated with in vivo measures of human brain serotonin synthesis and childhood limited physical aggression in men [46].