Sentences with phrase «theories on consciousness»

It might be one of our best theories on consciousness, but it would take a supercomputer billions of years to verify it.

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The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Sir Rudolf Peierls, another leading twentieth «century physicist, said, on the basis of quantum theory, «The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole function of a human being... including its knowledge, and its consciousness, is untenable.

2 Shalom: For the beginnings of such a theory, see my essays «On the Structure of the Person: Time and Consciousness» (in Dialectics and Humanism, Journal of the Polish Academy of Science, 1975) and, more particularly, «The Problem of the Person: Philosophy and the Neurologists» (to appear in Dialectics and Humanism, 1979).

the seeming absence 0f other selves within experience is what my theory implies would characterize human experience, since a self on that level could not conveniently manage other selves as clearly and distinctly manifest to it, but only selves on such a low level that only vague mass awareness of them would reach full consciousness, for individually taken they are too trivial to notice.

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

In the philosophy of men like G.W.F. Hegel, Kierkegaard saw theories about stages of human consciousness and progress in world history that he thought could lead Christians away from reliance on Scripture as a source of truth about human life.

Searle's account of consciousness, in short, merely throws doubt on the wisdom of his initial assumption — that there are only two alternatives for tackling the problem of consciousness: either search for a causal theory or succumb to some sort of vicious Cartesian dualism.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

But the ordinary production - theory of consciousness is knit up with a peculiar notion of how brain - action can occur, — that notion being that all brain - action, without exception, is due to a prioraction, immediate or remote, of the bodily sense - organs on the brain.

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

Still without a discernible consciousness of the growing corollary problems, Whitehead now softens the claims to effectiveness of a theory based on mathematically formulated natural science: Such a theory is not capable of either sufficiently explaining or even replacing individual sense perceptions and their relation to the world.

A fully satisfactory theory of consciousness is not worked out until the chapter on «The Higher Phases of Experience» (PR III.5 H).

That's why negative social critique — what Adorno called «the unalleviated consciousness of negativity» — isn't on my view a simple miserabilism, it's actually essential to keeping issues of oppression and disempowerment alive in democratic theory.

There is still time for Corbyn's supporters to pull back from the edge, reject the seductive embrace of false consciousness paranoia and conspiracy theory, and focus on changing the minds of real people in the country at large.

Markram isn't counting on it, but he will be watching closely if Blue Brain begins to make its own decisions, providing unique outputs to identical inputs in a way that is beyond chance or chaos theory and achieving something that has never been observed in a computer: consciousness.

Terrence W. Deacon «s new theory of consciousness depends as much on what isn't there as on what is — and could even help us understand our early origins

For more information about the theory of Biocentrism, Robert Lanza's compelling and thought provoking book, Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe is available on Amazon today.

The chakras, vital junction points between body and consciousness, will be explored as well as the major nadis, or subtle channels, on the level of theory and experience.

On the one hand, it's a sort of intellectual parlor game: who can come up with the best theory regarding the highly abstract notion of consciousness?

Editor of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott (2001), he serves on the Media Art History faculty at Donau University, Krems, Austria, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

My current theory is that an A.I. artwork he makes will develop consciousness and set out on a murderous rampage.

Natalie McFarlane founded Positive Impact Law Group on the theory that «a mind for business success and a mind for social consciousness for positive impact are not mutually exclusive and can operate concurrently.»

Robert Kegan, developmental psychologist and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education until 2016, who has also developed a theory of adult development based on meaning - making, would describe such societies as being in the 3rd order of consciousness, in their interpersonal and intrapersonal development.

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