Sentences with phrase «subjective states of»

«Mind's Eye» features works from the 1920s through 1940s by such artists as Herbert Bayer, Maurice Tabard, Dora Maar, Clarence John Laughlin and Grete Stern, who have used photography to evoke subjective states of mind, conjuring dreamlike scenarios and surreal imaginary worlds.

Given this assumption, the research program is to show the effects of neuronal events on other neuronal events and on subjective states of human experience.

If they acknowledge the existence of subjective states of human experience, they can only view them epiphenomenal.

In the marital act, moreover, husband and wife do not use their bodies as instruments to provide them with subjective states of consciousness but rather respect their bodies as intrinsic to themselves as bodily persons.

The main difference is that «faith» focuses attention on inner subjective states of being.

Non-believers are definitely missing out when they assume that there aren't subjective states of being that have normative value and are worth pursuing.

That symbolization is also partly objective to the subjective states of the individual worshipers.

In relation to the contemporary tendency to psychologize the sacrament, this understanding of the reality of the past and its causally effective presence supports the theological consensus of a presence not dependent on the subjective state of the worshipers.

Prior research by the same researchers on the effects of glucose and caffeine consumption showed improvements in declarative memory and attention span with no significant alteration of the subjective state of the individuals.

Boorman's frenzied, shifting narrative mirrors Walker's driven, highly subjective state of mind.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) sums it up succinctly as «the subjective state of being healthy, happy, contented, comfortable and satisfied with one's quality of life».

Developed in partnership with the Wellcome Trust as well as psychiatrist and patient consultation, Ninja Theory have set an admirable goal to present a world informed by the subjective state of mind of a protagonist experiencing psychosis.

To the extent s. 273.1 (2)(e) deals with the expression of consent, McLachlin C.J. noted that it was applicable to the accused's mens rea rather than to the complainant's subjective state of mind; however this provision was still seen as relevant to a consideration of the proper interpretation of consent for unconscious complainants.

Not exact matches

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

They unwittingly reveal their own subjective impressions of things and thus their own emotional states.

Whitehead states that in scientific thinking, «change is essentially the importation of the past and of the future into the immediate fact embodied in the durationless present instant» (PNX).8 In process thought, however, the future is not imported into the present but is grounded in the present as a subjective aim.

Stating the fact that the universe is huge or one of the most subjective branches of science, biology, is 100 % correct in it's theories is a poor reason to deny that God exists.

and very hard to authenticate given that it is an experience dependent upon the sanity and objectivity of the individual within a highly subjective state.

In her transcendence, so the doctrine of anatta would suggest in the first instance, the Mother of the world would not have wisdom and compassion, as if she were one thing and her subjective states another.

Note, however, that one of Whitehead's categories in Process and Reality states:» (iii) That in the becoming of an actual entity, novel prehensions, nexus, subjective forms, propositions, multiplicities, and contrasts, also become» (22).

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).

It corresponds to Whitehead's category of subjective intensity which states that the subject's «anticipatory feeling respecting provision for its grade of intensity» is an element «affecting the immediate complex of feeling» (PR 41).

In the case of the woman strolling beside the Empire State Building on lunch break, one might say that whereas God does not convey to her the information that there is in fact a piano falling her way, he could shoot into her consciousness via subjective aim an awareness of the possibility that a piano just might be falling her way.

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.

We can safely conclude that if God is going to affect our unfolding drama at the foot of the Empire State Building by means of proffered subjective aims, he will not do so as a result of subjective aims extended to occasions in the falling piano.

How, given the Whiteheadian account of subjective aims adumbrated above, would God operate in the context of our little drama playing itself out at the foot of the Empire State Building?

Before I state it, however, I must say that there is no reason why the more traditional position, both about life beyond death as a subjective (and hence personal) reality for each of us and also with respect to the traditional portrayal of the «last things» (including an intermediate state), may not be accepted by those who find it compelling.

That condition or state or situation in which we are not realizing our subjective aim and find ourselves impotent in the face of the requirements which it makes upon us may be summed up simply by saying that although we are made to become men, we do not actually get very far along the path, knowing ourselves to be both incompetent and impotent, however grand may be our projects and however optimistic may be our hopes.

own becoming a subject [Subjekt - Werdung] lies in this transformation of its subjective determination into an objective state.

Another meaning of idealism, which I call epistemological or subjective idealism, is that when we experience something, have it as immediate intuitive datum, it is nothing but a quality of our own mental state (Berkeley's or Locke's idea or Hume's impression).

Their value consists entirely in the subjective enjoyment they produce, and that value would be unaffected even if the subjective enjoyment were totally at variance with the actual, objective state of affairs.

What I state and provide for th ebasis of my belief is subjective.

Thorpe stated that he personally had found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of animal communication and eventually human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information and description of states of affairs.

Let it suffice to say that the same state of affairs in the case of self - referential feeling can also be analyzed without recourse to eternal objects, namely, in view of the «subjective form» and the «concept of the actual world.»

Instead of our seeing expression as an external sign of subjective states or intentions, it becomes the natural bodily form that my activities take.

After the presentation of his categorial scheme, and before he begins the discussion which leads up to, or is explanatory of, the categories of that scheme, he states as one of his preliminary notes: «Actuality in perishing acquires objectivity [i.e., objective immortality], while it loses subjective immediacy» (PR 29).

According to one view, characteristic of the democracy of desire, esthetic evaluations are nothing but indications of subjective feeling - states.

Taking creeds and faith - state together, as forming «religions,» and treating these as purely subjective phenomena, without regard to the question of their «truth,» we are obliged, on account of their extraordinary influence upon action and endurance, to class them amongst the most important biological functions of mankind.

The objective part is the sum total of whatsoever at any given time we may be thinking of, the subjective part is the inner «state» in which the thinking comes to pass.

Moreover, unlike the National Interest Waiver category, which has a large subjective component, qualifying as an OPR is far more formulaic: If you can prove that you meet the requirements and have well - drafted letters of recommendation from recognized experts stating that you are outstanding in your field, your application will most likely be approved.

Since the early days of computers, scholars have argued that the subjective, phenomenal states that make up the life of the mind are intimately linked to the information expressed at that time by the brain.

Thus, scientists have had to revise the belief that the REM state is an external manifestation of the subjective dream state.

Second, the authors fail to state that postconviction exonerations are as much the result of a subjective interpretation of evidence as the original convictions.

The results of this unique and multidisciplinary endeavor demonstrate that human perception of aesthetic value is not purely subjective, but is influenced by inherent components of nature that indicate healthy or degraded states.

In an article that Ralph Adolphs and I recently wrote, we put forth the view that emotions are a type of internal brain state with certain general properties that can exist independently of subjective, conscious feelings, which can only be studied in humans,» Anderson says.

Now better techniques for measuring sleep states have shown that their sleep is fundamentally different from normal, which probably explains their subjective reports of being unable to switch off (see «Awake asleep: Insomniac brains that can't switch off «-RRB-.

There is also an odor object version of «banana,» a combination of the inherent pleasantness of the molecules released by the fruit (as measured by Sobel's yardstick) and our subjective mental state when we encounter them.

Although this type of analysis is less likely to be easily translated to the clinic, it could be very effective for clinical trials, as so many of the current tests for progression of Parkinson's disease and impact of treatments are very subjective and not sensitive to changes in clinical state.»

«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.

Methods: From the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort, we included 429 non-demented elderly with subjective cognitive decline (SCD; n = 206, 61 ± 9 years, Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) 28 ± 2) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI; n = 223, 67 ± 8 years, MMSE 27 ± 2), with a... mean follow - up of 2.5 ± 1.6 years.