Sentences with phrase «primitive levels»

The presence to itself of each atomic entity is also a subjectivity, even on the most primitive levels of life.

Santayana14 would say that it is a natural process; at a certain level of biological or organic complication more «refined» possibilities yield more refined results, even though they are thoroughly continuous with more primitive levels of nature.

No one is more aware than Whitehead himself that the generalizable factors are not to be found in the more developed stages of human experience, but rather in the most basic, most primitive levels.

But like sense perception and consciousness itself, religious experience is an emergent from basic physical relations that exist on more primitive levels throughout nature.

Emancipation would be quickly reduced to primitive levels in the absence of norms that steady and enhance the character of human interaction.

In cases of gradual destruction of sight, there is a regressive reorganization of the perceptual field at more and more primitive levels.

Note that the weakening of initiative does not result in a chaos of behaviors but rather in a more primitive level of organization of mental life.

To behave as a «fraternity» of anti-theists is «eye for an eye» retributive tribal behavior that reduces us to a more primitive level.

Life was not content to remain stuck at a primitive level but instead advanced toward more sentient, conscious, and eventually self - conscious forms.

We do not yet talk about how much we all are interdependent and need to relate to an equal, how challenging and beneficial that process can be, how often this need is thwarted, how little practice we get in it, and how much of our life is spent at the much more primitive level of learning how to be either one - up or one - down.

The adverbial mode of perception must be understood as a response, a response that has some identity or correspondence with the patterned processes playing upon the organism but that, at the same time, is not unambiguously reproductive of these energetic activities.5 Even though some originative activity may occur at this primitive level of physiological responsiveness, it is holistic in nature.

He may be able to find at its most primitive level factors that can be generalized so as to be illuminative also of the ultimate entities in the physical world.

These assumptions operate on a still more primitive level in the system of Buddhist - Lamaist prayer mills.

Pickersgill et al. (1979) also provided a detailed phenetic analysis of the C. annuum — C. chinense — C. frutescens complex and the difficulty of separating these taxa at the most primitive level is apparent.

It is now that you are able to begin communicating with your baby, albeit on a primitive level.

They may «know» the family rules at a primitive level, but not at a sophisticated level that requires the kind of morality and judgment and responsibility that does not develop until closer to the age of eight.

For the fear and horror used in Silent Hill 2 resonates with a player on a more primitive level: It pits your own imagination against you.

Instead, he raises them to a cosmically primitive level.

Like a human baby, he learns his limits and his powers as he grows; unlike a human baby, he explores his environment and learns his lessons at a more primitive level — with tooth and paw — that he can not outgrow.

For the fear and horror used in Silent Hill 2 resonates with a player on a more primitive level: It pits your own imagination against you.

But guessing at meaning is the most primitive level of meaning formation and there is no authority in the world, not even the artist or the authorial culture that designates preferred usage, that can tell us what meanings to ascribe to abstract forms, whether those forms are phonemes or abstract sculptures.

On a very primitive level it's like my ancestors lives when they first came over from eastern Europe in the 1910s: 5 - 6 people crammed into a two room flat on the upper story of a multi-family house.

In these circumstances, we should err on the side of assuming at least the most primitive level of consciousness.

In nature, green indicates water so we are reassured by green on a primitive level.

Not exact matches

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

I find it stupid for someone whose basic social level has not changed for 6000 yrs to call someone living 2000 yrs ago primitive.

Given the enormous division of labor and degree of specialization required by an advanced economy, such an economy could not be sustained, and the human race would reduced to a primitive economic level.

A new Rousseau, like all copies only a pale version of the old, he preaches the gospel of the new primitive man who, naturally on a higher level, must return to prehistoric tribal existence in the «global village».

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

But between these primitive forms of sign interpretation and the interpretation and use of language there are many intermediate levels.

The first factor is especially obvious on the higher levels of experience, but the affective response, as integral part of the experience (rather than as reflective reaction), predominates in the more primitive forms.

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

We can find, therefore, very general similarities between the use and interpretation of sentences at the linguistic level and primitive natural signs as characterized in Whitehead's first version of symbolic reference.

For this tradition a linguistic sentence is regarded as a sign of a relatively high level of complexity sharing certain common features with more primitive signs interpreted by lower forms of life.

The sociologist of religion will realize that it is rather a question of emphasis; individual expression and pecularity being present already on the level of so - called primitive civilization and communal worship playing a most important part in the highest forms of religion and culture.

Already Darwin had to rebut the objection to his theory that the coexistence at our time level of high and low, primitive and advanced organisms contradicts the doctrine of evolution.

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

Again there is a wide range between the maximal identity of religion and other activities such as prevail in primitive societies and the tension we find existing on more advanced levels of cultural and religious development.

In primitive religion a strong tie binds the members of a tribal cult together, and on the level of the great religions spiritual brotherhood surpasses physical ties between brothers.

Nevertheless, since the possibilities of grouping the Turing machine's primitive table into higher level concepts are quite varied, a new philosophy of mechanism would tend to support an organization of software into a higher level language that is intuitively mechanical.

The sacramental meal practiced by the primitive tribes of Australia illustrates this level of meaning.

At its lowest, most cultic level, baseball is hospitable to such a variety of little superstitions and local pieties that it almost qualifies as a kind of primitive animism or paganism.

For a Whiteheadian cosmologist, existence, precisely in the existentialist sense, can be attributed to every level of life, no matter how primitive.

This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive» experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case — experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..

For example, modern artists have found themselves challenged by primitive man at the common level of the use of symbols; a modern humanist could be influenced by, say, the historical Socrates, because of a common devotion to a certain understanding of the meaning and significance of truth; and so on.

Wheels are the archetype of a primitive, caveman - level technology.

What has not been clear, says Anders Garm at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, is whether these cells simply tell the starfish about ambient light levels, as happens in more primitive light - sensitive animals, or whether they actually form spatial images.

They concluded that hard - bodied lifeforms were first present only in such environments where high levels of calcium carbonate allowed organisms to develop primitive hard parts.

Such adaptation at the molecular level is seen in most primitive forms of life and has been evolutionarily conserved all the way up to humans, he adds.

According to Greene, those who oppose utilitarian thinking (e.g., euthanasia), should have higher levels of reflexive, primitive, raw emotion Instead, the researchers found that those who were more susceptible to personal distress were actually more likely to support euthanasia.