Sentences with phrase «take human ideas»

Researchers are building new tools to harness the crowd for creative pursuits — and even building in algorithms that can take human ideas and «evolve» them in directions that people may never have thought of.

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The idea, which was primarily based on the research of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we think about emotions and human behavior.
The idea — that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success — quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.
Though the idea may sound out of this world, the nascent space tourism industry is set to take off in the next decade, and humans will need a way to pay for things in space as well as send payments to Earth, said PayPal President David Marcus.
If you can pool human resources together, you can take advantage of this opportunity from the top 10 mobile business ideas.
The idea of basic income — in which the government gives all citizens a small monthly stipend — has grown popular in tech circles, not in the least because it's seen as a possible solution to the looming problem of robots, artificial intelligence, and automation taking jobs away from human workers.
Moreover, for a certain kind of writer on the left, ideas must bear a revolutionary panache, and there is a frisson of defiance in taking one's stance with, say, the Druids of old (reinvented and sanitized, to be sure, without, for instance, the burning of human sacrifices).
(I take your point, Gary, that this significantly hampers the idea of Jesus experiencing what we do as humans.)
Even if antebellum Evangelicals did not create the idea of a living Constitution, it could be said that by rejecting the continuity of human moral experience, they took a first necessary step towards it.
Or is the human race an infallible one so that any idea can be, move over should be, taken on faith of its truth no matter the reality of things and then acted on without concern of the real truth which was «WILLFULLY» overlooked?
Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.
The key idea to take away from this is that people have a inner impulse to believe that humans are to blame for disasters.
But nonteleologists argue forcefully that the very idea of taking or torturing or otherwise physically invading innocent human life under any circumstances is inconsistent with our deepest moral intuitions (e.g., Donagan 172 - 89).
But taking the race as a whole, they thought that the human idea of decent behaviour was obvious to every one.
Indeed the past history of human intelligence is full of «mutations» of this kind, more or less abrupt, indicating, in addition to the shift of human ideas, an evolution of the «space» in which the ideas took shape — which is clearly very much more suggestive and profound.
Clearly this activity will be taking place somewhere, because human existence is too problematic for people to stop searching for ideas and ways of living that will make everyday life meaningful.
And what then becomes of the ideas of human responsibility and choice, and of the notion that some deeds ought not to have taken place?
To drop those human ideas and let the Holy Spirit take over and set the goals, vision and leadership is risky — but is what God called us to do.
In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.
Although he goes on to insist that this is not the whole truth, what he takes to be the other side of the matter is that we form our idea of human knowledge, not by exploiting our intuition of God as eminently knowing, but by exploiting our intuition of God — period.
Personal religious experience and inner feeling, therefore, began to take precedence over religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.
We are so used to thinking about the human quest for God that we can not easily grasp the idea of God's taking the initiative in making himself known, especially when it is affirmed that he has done so in specific historical events and developments.
It just took us humans to come along and establish the formal structures we call «banks» to help increase the flow of ideas, to help them circulate.
Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.
In an age when God is often sidelined and self - worship is often conducted under the aegis of nationalism, it is particularly important to take every opportunity to call attention to the dignity and value of all human beings, and in particular to the universal ideas of the Torah.
What results from the foregoing is that, confronted by this technico - social embrace of the human mass, modern man, in so far as he has any clear idea of what is happening, tends to take fright as though at an impending disaster.
I have shown that the strong assertion of individual equality in America took place against the background of religious hierarchical ideas — the Christian conception of divine / human relations — and classical philosophy, as in the idea of natural law, also ultimately hierarchical.
John Paul II took Catholic social doctrine in a new direction by teaching that, in the post-industrial world of the twenty - first century, Adam Smith's «wealth of nations» resides, not so much in stuff (as in natural resources or land) as in human creativity: in ideas, skills, work - habits and entrepreneurial instincts.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
The idea is that a new humanity is now taking shape on the spot where the first human being met his tragic denouement.
But the idea that human beings are created by God purposefully, with a special relationship to God, and with special privileges in relation to other creatures, took deep hold on the consciousness of Christendom.
The idea is to remove human control from the situation on the assumption that when this is done and divine aid invoked, the external divine power will take over.
not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue
The Democratic candidates all accept the idea that humans contribute to climate change, and they all agree that the government should take action to address it.
Take how he approaches the idea of hybridisation of humans with technology.
This idea was bolstered by the finding that viral DNA production also took place in cells from another natural LCMV host, the hamster, but not in human, monkey, dog, or cow cells, which are not susceptible to the virus.
Sherman, a self - described romance nut who is a devoted husband and father of three, gave his take on the idea that vasopressin treatments might someday be used on humans — maybe via nasal spray — to encourage commitment - phobes to stick around: «I think if you have to snort hormones to be committed, it's probably not the right person.»
Over time, and especially in light of the current crisis, «I've definitely been taken with this idea that we could try to do something to help with the human disease in terms of leveraging the work that we've done.»
Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.
RUN has allowed us to take this idea from nerve cells, to animal models and eventually will help us investigate whether it could be a feasible treatment in humans.
The idea, almost 40 years old but never properly tested, argues that bacteria and fungi actively spoil food to keep large animals, like humans, from taking away their meal.
Steele said the findings support the idea that Middle Stone Age began just over 300,000 years ago, and that important changes in modern human biology and behaviour were taking place across most of Africa then.
Another idea is to «shape» any background noise by taking it from the middle frequency bands, to which the ear is most sensitive, and redistributing it in higher or lower bands where human hearing is less acute.
Those who advocate the idea that human language has genetic origins will take heart at a new discovery: University of Oxford researchers have pinpointed a genetic mutation that seems to be responsible for a rare speech and language disorder.
I enjoyed September's «Great Mysteries of Human Evolution» by Carl Zimmer, but I take issue with the statement «Putting a stone ax on the end of a stick to make a spear would have allowed these hominids to become much better hunters, and yet this simple idea apparently never occurred to them.»
«The idea of this software is to take the routine tasks out of human hands, so scientists can focus on drawing conclusions and developing treatments.»
You can't simply take one curve, look at it «by eye», and start to make claims about the validity of the idea that human influence on climate is significant
The idea here is that the mouse avoiding pleasurable sensations is similar to depressed humans no longer taking pleasure from things they used to enjoy.
So the researchers took the idea a step further, not quite to humans but at least to living organisms, including mice, round worms, and fruit flies.
The strongest idea thT D. Oz cited on the human growth hormone debate was that it promotes telomere damage and that it will cause you to age quicker if you take HGH injections.
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