Sentences with phrase «possible human ends»

There is no necessary contradiction in these two accounts of possible human ends, though there is a decisive divergence in their evaluative frameworks for these ends, and there are contradictions in the metaphysical assumptions associated with each framework.

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As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

This essay focuses on the nature of self - interest, and that is a different question than whether self - interest is the only possible end of human action.

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

Now it is entirely possible, as I have said earlier, that the appearance of the human species with its peculiar form of consciousness is by no means the end of evolution.

In these circumstances it made sense to many to say that a human being actually dies when brain activity ends, because only that activity makes possible the body's ability to function as an integrated whole.

Human liberation is a fruit potentially made increasingly possible by the achievements of technological society, an ideal realizable by means of our growing capacity to transform nature so that without violating its transhuman integrity it might serve, genuinely and profoundly, our collective ends.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

«If a [scientist] sends in a paper [for publication] that says it's not the end of the world, I guarantee you the reviewers feel threatened, and that they will give it the most difficult review possible,» said Michaels, «This is just human nature.

It's possible, therefore, that if engineers programmed bipedal robots to prioritize energy minimization, they'd end up with robots that walk and run a lot like humans do.

In principle, Venter notes, the process could go the other way: It would be possible to send human DNA, along with an appropriate incubator, to distant planets and synthesize people at the other end.

Through the Magnesium Advocacy Group, he is committed to educating as many people as possible about the MAG - nificence of Magnesium and ending the epidemic of Magnesium deficiency plaguing the health and well - being of human beings.

What's most difficult to believe about this aspect is that 20 years prior, the world populace already had a scare in which apes from the future proclaim that humanity's reign will end thanks to the apes, so to think that this knowledge would be largely ignored by humans willing to train apes into being as smart and skilled as possible seems a pretty big implausibility pill to swallow.

The Effect (2013) a life - sized hologram of Stuart performing various magic tricks, emphasises the human tendency to believe something that isn't possible, whilst Omega (2013) incorporates a mass of radios in tune to the left - over radiation from the Big Bang that signals both the beginning and end of time.

Indeed it is perfectly possible for the human to end up cooler for a time.

(See article on unforseeability) Although even more optimistic predictions of climate change impacts are disastrous for some of the world's most vulnerable people, the upper end of possible human - induced temperature increases in this Century of 5 to 9 o C will be catastrophic and perhaps unimaginable for the world.

shale) for «inferred total recoverable» oil and gas at 5,100 bbl and 490 trillion cubic meters, respectively, I end up with a maximum possible CO2 level (from human fossil fuel combustion) of 980 ppmv.

Does this mean that the end result may need a bit more human input than some of the other AI systems out there which seek to absorb as much of the human labour as possible into the automated process (at least once the training is completed)?

A perfectly flat, ideal response isn't possible with every component, but today's higher - end technology can certainly come close enough that a human could never tell.