Sentences with phrase «subjective experiences like»

Having myself, as a recipient of modern scientific culture, gone through a subjective experience like this, I feel sure that it must also have been the experience of many, perhaps of most, of you who listen to my words.

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Much like the scientific method, one could look at religion as the codes, rules, rituals that may lead one to the subjective spiritual experiences.

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).

In fact, in spite of his insisting that most actual occasions are unconscious (and that there is much that is unconscious even in that series of actual occasions which constitute our successive mental states), his talk of their experience or feeling of themselves, the influence of their predecessors, and their subjective immediacy seems pointless unless each of them is supposed to feel its own being, in some genuine sense, however dimly, so that there is a truth as to what - it - is - like - being - it.

Now it is exactly in situations like this — according to the standard account of orthodox Whiteheadians — that God is supposed to lure the world, by means of what he proffers to actual occasions via subjective aims, toward that falling out of events which will make his future experience most positive.

Like it or not, your experience of God is subjective.

Only a religious ground could account for the decisive role of subjective experience in Whitehead's cosmology, for it is simply ignorance to think that anything like a subjective experience in this sense is present in quantum physics.

Needless to say, terms like «religious identity» or «subjective experience» are no less open to critical scrutiny for their suggestions of a fixed referential meaning than the split between public and private realms of experience that they come to signify.

On the basis of experience from a variety of sources a religious person and the theologian formulate a theory which, like any theory dealing with complex issues in science, is a matter of weighing one experience against another, together with much subjective judgment.

Either way, there is here, once again, no such thing as objective truth — just the passing shades of our own subjective experiences, like shadows on a wall.

«Furthermore, the psychedelic nature of ibogaine tends to induce a dream - like state in which many report autobiographical subjective experiences, like watching their life as a movie from the vantage point of an observer,» Malcolm continued.

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From my limited experience, this Altima only seems lacking when you consider more subjective things like style.

I encourage you to look at my Seven Questions to Ask Before Indie Publishing, but books are a hugely subjective experience — some people will like what you write, some won't.

Reading about a universally liked or disliked game is enjoyable, and indeed seeing that sort of unity across critics and gamers alike is fantastic, but examining reviews from entirely opposite ends of the spectrum is, to me, far more interesting because it perfectly demonstrates just how subjective one's experience with a game really is.

Her practice draws from earth - space systems like orbital patterns or the moon and tides, as well as the phenomenology and subjective experience of nature.

In her videos, installations and drawings, Corin Sworn investigates themes like the translation of subjective experiences into general history or, conversely, she examines how the process of history is narrated; all intertwined with fiction.

To make matters worse, adversity appears to be somewhat subjective, in that some children might have horrific experiences (eg, witnessing interpersonal violence) yet do very well, whereas other children might have long - lasting physiologic and behavioral changes owing to relatively minor trauma (like seeing a growling dog or falling off a bike).